Fires on the Plain

Private Tamura – a Japanese soldier's version of World War Two, set in the Philippines; an unflinching depiction of the degradation of war and its impact on the individual by an author who was a prisoner of war himself; translation by Ivan Morris.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: New York
Two rectangles of offsetting to half title page, else fine in very good dustwrapper chipped and creased at edges.


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