Underground Escape
Tokyo: Robert Booth and Taro Fukuda, (1952). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. 298, map endpapers. Red leatherette, rear board has printed abstract doodle design. Near Fine, owner neat stamp, pages lightly tanned. Very Good. Item #8636
A former Japanese officer’s account of his experience as a fugitive in the years following World War II. Tsuji was an ardent Japanese nationalist and opponent of the U.S. After the Japanese defeat, he went into hiding in Thailand, assuming the guise of a Buddhist monk, then transited over to Indochina (Vietnam), up to Kunming, thence to Chungking, Hankow, Nanking, Shanghai and finally, by boat, to Tsingtao to safety in Sasebo. Scarce.
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