Wheat and soldiers, by Coroporal Ashihei Hino [pseud.] translated by Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto (Still Image)

Wheat and soldiers, by Coroporal Ashihei Hino [pseud.] translated by Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto

Hino, Ashihei, 1907-1960

xii, 191 p. 22 cm

Wheat and soldiers, an impression by W.H. Chamberlin.--Earth and soldiers.--Wheat and soldiers

One of three best selling novels written by the author depicting the daily lives of Japanese soldiers during the Sino-Japanes war. They were originally praised by Japanese popular audiences, but after WWII, the author was purged by the Allied Occcupation for promoting the war through his writing and labeled a "cultural war criminal" by a member of Japan's literary establishment.

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=10204

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashihei_Hino

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese

DS777.53 .T37

New York [etc.] Farrar & Rinehart, inc. [c1939]

Link to Primo