When I was a boy, my father told me and my kid brother stories from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and taught us how to sing some of the threnodies that Gen. Maresuke Nogi composed in classical Chinese on the battlefield. My father was born three years after the war, but memories of it were still strong.
Clouds Above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War (Vols. 3 & 4), by Shiba Ryotaro Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Andrew Cobbing.
routledge, Fiction.
Rating ★★★★★
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