Hiroshima Joe, (Paperback)

from mrtall

Hiroshima Joe is a profoundly sad book. It's fundamentally a war novel executed via character study: Joe Sandingham fights in the defense of Hong Kong against the 1941 Japanese invasion, spends the next several years in a variety of internment camps, then looks back on these events from the persp...

from mrtall

Hiroshima Joe is a profoundly sad book. It's fundamentally a war novel executed via character study: Joe Sandingham fights in the defense of Hong Kong against the 1941 Japanese invasion, spends the next several years in a variety of internment camps, then looks back on these events from the persp...

from dbsovereign

Not just another prison camp novel. This book paints the story of a man who survives a Japanese slave camp and the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, and still manages to live some semblence of a hero's life. This low-key heroism is sustained despite a constant barrage of spirit-killing and physically cha...