Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman - Hardcover

Pagnamenta, Peter; Williams, Momoko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200890 ISBN 13: 9781594200892

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2006

Synopsis

Draws on more than eight hundred letters to recount the tragic romantic relationship between an ambitious British army officer and a Japanese woman, who fell in love on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War and defied conventions and the challenges of numerous military conflicts to remain in touch. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Pagnamenta is a writer and documentary maker. He first went to Japan in 1975 and has been returning ever since to make programs for British television. He produced and wrote the eight-hour series Nippon, an archive and testimony history of Japan since 1945. Major historical programs for the BBC include the award-winning People's Century, a twenty-six-part television history of the twentieth century coproduced with WGBH Boston for which he was the BBC executive producer and scriptwriter. He was also editor of the British current affairs series Panorama.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594200890
• ISBN 13: 9781594200892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 345