Four Samurai - A quartet of Japanese Army Commanders in the Second World War

Book Description

First edition. 266 pp. Frontispiece - b/w photographs of the four Japanese commanders - Homma, Yamashita, Mutaguchi & Honda. With 6 maps (4 fold-out). Swinson has taken 4 generals Masaharu Homma, who captured the Philippines from MacArthur, Renya Mutaguchi who led the march on Delhi, masaki Honda who fought the British, Americans and the Chinese in Burma and Tomoyuki Yamashita the conqueror of Malaya and Singapore. Includes an account of the Samurai caste. Grey eps. Yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Edges of boards a little grubby. Overall condition VG. In VG dust wrapper.