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The Emperor's General
by James H. Webb
ISBN: 0553578545
ISBN-13: 9780553578546
Format: Paperback
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"Despite a lumbering opening and some plummy prose, Webb makes winning the Japanese peace look every bit as challenging and tragic as winning the war."
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Books Published date: 2000 Size: 4 x 6.75 inches Weight: 0.5 pounds Pages: 467
Publisher's Notes
An evocation of ego, greed, and imperial politics in postWorld War II Japan follows a young captain involved in a plot between General MacArthur and the Japanese emperor to seize total control.
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Bantam. Mass Market PaperBack. 0553578545 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. 2000 Bantam Mass Market PaperBack . Very Good. 2000. ( more information)
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James Webb
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Bantam. Used - Good. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 2000. Mass Market Pap. Reissue. Good condition, showing modest signs of wear. Some discoloration/sunfade of cover/spine. Some rubbing on cover. Cover has some wear on edges. ( more information)
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Webb, James
Bantam Books, 2000. Mass-market paperback. Good. wear to cover, creases in spine, sticker residue on cover pgs clean & tight, lean to spine Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 480 p. Audience: General/trade.Delivery Confirmation on Media Mail orders, First Class shipping if available for faster service. Shipped in bubble mailers. ( more information)
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James Webb
Bantam. Used - Very Good. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 2000. Mass Market Pap. Reissue. Very Good condition, showing little signs of wear. Some rubbing on cover. Cover has some wear on edges. Some discoloration/sunfade of cover/spine. Some aging/yellowing of text pages. Cover/spine has minor creases and/or small tears. Spine slightly askew. ( more information)
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James Webb
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James Webb
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Webb, James H
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The Emperor's General: A Novel
Webb, James H.; Webb, James
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2000 Softcover. Mild to moderate rubbing/edgewear to wraps. Stamped.. Mass Market Paperback. Good/n/a. ( more information)
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Webb, James
Bantam, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/Unknown. Very Good 0553578545 Tight spine, light cover wear and no markings. Fiction. (#80019) ( more information)
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Webb, James H
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James Webb
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The Emperor's General
Webb, James
Bantam Books, 1999. Paperback. Grade: C. Catalog: Fiction Historical Synopsis: 467 pages. Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Ja... ( more information)
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WEBB, JAMES
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Webb, James H
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books. 2000. First Thus. S Mass Market Paperback. Good - Cheap Reading Copy. Cocked spine and bumped corners. Creases and wear to wraps. Ink mark to front endpaper. ( more information)
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The Emperor's General: A Novel
Webb, James; Webb, James H
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2000 Creaess on the spine, light shelf wear to corners, light edgewear.. Mass Market Paperback. Good+. ( more information)
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The Emperor's General: A Novel
Webb, James; Webb, James H
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2000 Creases on spine, light shelf wear to corners, light edgewear, cracks on spine. . Mass Market Paperback. Good. ( more information)
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The Emperor's General
Webb, James
Bantam. Very Good. 2000. Mass Market Paperbac. 0553578545 . Spine creases but no writing ....All books are mailed in poly envelopes with digital postage/bar-coded for faster delivery. ; 1.1 x 6.85 x 4.17 Inches; 480 pages; Told through the eyes of a young captain at General MacArthur's side after World War II, this story weaves a tapestry of intrigue, politics, and power in which the defeated Japanese emperor hatches an ingenious plan that will alter American history. Webb is an attorney, former combat marine, and journalist, and former U.S. cabinet official. . ( more information)
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The Emperor's General: A Novel
Webb, James H.; Webb, James
New York: Bantam Books, 2000. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Despite popular sentiments that World War II was in fact a good war, there was some disagreement about that immediately following the conflict. After the Marshall Plan and the "democratization" of Japan, conspiracy mongers accused forces in the U.S. government of assisting our former enemies in rebuilding their economic powers at the expense of our national interest. At their worst, these suspicions aided the rise of McCarthyism; at their best, they give us snappy espionage novels such as James Webb's The Emperor's General, which speculates that Douglas MacArthur lost the peace by allowing Japan to regain its sphere of influence in the Pacific Rim. This hypothesis is presented by the book's protagonist, Jay Marsh, an inexperienced captain serving as one of MacArthur's aides. Throughout the course of the novel, young Marsh suspects that the general is shielding Japan's imperial elite from war-crimes trials being undertaken by various military commissions. He soon sheds his naïveté, becoming both seduced and appalled by the Japanese-U.S. alliance of global hegemony. Webb avoids the Grishamesque hit-and-run action sequences that sacrifice the "reality" of many conspiratorial novels, making Marsh into MacArthur's doppelgänger, a character whose intense love of the East is entangled with a sense of compromised honor. The general's loss of the Philippines is matched with Marsh's betrayal of his Filipina fiancée, propelling all the characters towards their destiny. The fact that the U.S. secured its military objectives by protecting Japan's leaders should come as no surprise to the historically informed, but the all too human motivations that Webb gives to MacArthur's actions ought to keep the reader hooked to the last page. --John M. Anderson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description: Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Japanese army during World War II's final days. And he had abandoned his beautiful Filipina fiancée to see his duty through. But not even Marsh could guess the terrible personal price he would have to pay for his loyalty. He would follow General Douglas MacArthur to Tokyo itself. There he would become the brilliant, egocentric general's confidant, translator, surrogate son--and spy. Marsh would play a dangerous game of deliberate deceit and brutal injustice in the shadow world of postwar Japan's royal palaces and geisha houses, and recognize that the defeated emperor and his wily aides were exploiting MacArthur's ruthless ambition to become the American Caesar. The Emperor's General is a dramatic human story of the loss of innocence and the seduction of power, about the conflict between honor, duty, and love, all set against an extraordinary historical backdrop. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ( more information)
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The Emperor's General
WEBB, JAMES
Bantam. January 4, 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. Despite popular sentiments that World War II was in fact a good war, there was some disagreement about that immediately following the conflict. After the Marshall Plan and the "democratization" of Japan, conspiracy mongers ac cused forces in the U.S. government of assisting our former enemies in rebu ilding their economic powers at the expense of our national interest. At th eir worst, these suspicions aided the rise of McCarthyism; at their best, t hey give us snappy espionage novels such as James Webb's The Emperor's Gene ral, which speculates that Douglas MacArthur lost the peace by allowing Jap an to regain its sphere of influence in the Pacific Rim. This hypothesis is presented by the book's protagonist, Jay Marsh, an inexperienced captain serving as one of MacArthur's aides. Throughout the course of the novel, young Marsh suspects that the general is shielding Japan's imperial elite from war-crimes trials being undertaken by various military commissions. He soon sheds his naïveté, becoming both seduced and appalled by the Japanese-U.S. alliance of global hegemony. Webb avoids the Grishamesque hit-and-run action sequences that sacrifice the "reality" of many conspiratorial novels, making Marsh into MacArthur's doppelgänger, a character whose intense love of the East is entangled with a sense of compromised honor. The general's loss of the Philippines is matched with Marsh's betrayal of his Filipina fiancée, propelling all the characters towards their destiny. The fact that the U.S. secured its military objectives by protecting Japan's leaders should come as no surprise to the historically informed, but the all too human mo ( more information)
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Emperor's General
Webb, James
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The Emperor's General
Webb, James
Bantam Books. Very Good. 2000. Paperback. 0553578545 . Very Good. .. Minor spine creases, clean, tight, no writing Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 480 p. Audience: General/trade. . ( more information)
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The Emperor's General
James Webb
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The Emperor's General
Webb, James
New York: Bantam, 2000. Paperback. VG-. Small tear in back cover at bottom of spine. Edgewear and some corner splitting and creasing. . ISBN: 0553578545. ( more information)
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The Emperor's General
Webb, James
Bantam [0-553-57854-5] 2000, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. (War Fiction). ( more information)
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Webb, James H.;Webb, James
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2000. Very tight, clean copy, undamaged pages, no tears or creases, clean, bright covers, no tears or creases. May or may not have very small, minor reader crease on spine. Very tight spine, pages and covers.. Paperback. Very Good. ( more information)
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Emperor's General
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Bantam, 2000. Paperback. Most of our paperbacks are in good to good+ (some fine) condition. Some are in fair condition due to their age and the fact that they've been read so many times. If condition is an important issue with you, ask for a more complete description of the book May have store address sticker and or price sticker on outside. Good means general reading wear. Most of our paperbacks are in good to good+ (some fine) condition. Some are in fair condition due to their age and the fact that they've been read so many times. If condition is an important issue with you, ask for a more complete description of the book May have store address sticker and or price sticker on outside. Good means general reading wear. ( more information)
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Webb, James
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Webb, James H
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Webb, James
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Webb, James
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The Emperor's General
James Webb
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