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The Second World War

By Beevor, Antony

The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki

By P. Hoyt, Edwin

The Rough Guide to Japan (Travel Guide) (Rough Guides)

By Guides, Rough

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time

By Sherman, Anna

Hiroshima (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Hersey, John

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Elkin, Lauren

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax, Lomax, Eric

Autobiography Of A Geisha

By Masuda, Sayo, Rowley, G.G.

The Night Of The New Moon (Vintage Classics)

By Van Der Post, Sir Laurens

TO END ALL WARS: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

By GORDON ERNEST

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2 (Princess Series)

By Sasson, Jean

Chickenhawk

By Mason, Robert

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

By Winchester, Simon

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-century Japan (Classics)

By Lady Sarashina, Ivan Morris

The Railway Man

By Lomax, Eric

Reading Benedict / Reading Mead: Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)

By Janiewski, Dolores, Banner, Lois W.

Weary: The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop

By Ebury, Sue

Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

By Milton, Giles

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By Urquhart, Alistair

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

By Field, Norma

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By Stanley, Amy

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

By Parry, Richard Lloyd

X Platoon

By Heaney MC, Steve, Lewis, Damien

A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer

By Oyama Shiro, Edward Fowler

A Tokyo Romance: Ian Buruma

By Buruma, Ian

The Book of Tea: The Book of Oz (Penguin Little Black Classics)

By Okakura, Kakuzo

The Railway Man

By Lomax, Eric

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Zamperini, Louis, Rensin, David

American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan

By Harvey, Robert

The Dark Valley

By Brendon, Piers