The emperor's general
a novel
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1999 - Broadway Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
100,250 words, Guess
Page Count
401 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL362922M
- ISBN-100767900766
- OCLC Control Number39069475
- Internet Archiveemperorsgenerala00webb
- Library of Congress Control Number98023143
and 2 more
- LibraryThing304990
- Goodreads1613306
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3573.E1955 E46 1999
- LCCPS3573.E1955E46 1999
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 fiancee 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.From the Paperback edition.
Description
A novel on General MacArthur's rule in post-World War II Japan, portraying him as a Machiavellian figure. He organizes a war-crimes trial against an innocent Japanese general to divert attention from the crimes of the emperor, whose cooperation he needs. By the author of Something to Die For.
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- Fiction
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