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Author:
Kennedy, Michael.
Title:
Flowers of Edo : a novel / Michael Dana Kennedy.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Vertical,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
542 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--History--Fiction.
United States--Japanese Americans--Japanese Americans--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area--Amphibious operations--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Spy stories.
Summary:
"In the climactic closing months of World War II, Allied Intelligence officers are summoned to the Malcañan Palace in Manila to be briefed by General MacArthur's Intelligence Staff on the optimal conclusion to the conflict in the Pacific Theater. Intelligence collected at the time concluded that the Americans had only three options to effectively force the Imperial Japanese Military into surrender: encirclement, blockade, and bombardment; isolating Japan from its forces in China, Korea, and Formosa; or engaging Japan through a full-scale amphibious invasion ... Japanese-American Lt. Ken Kobayashi must straddle a delicate line between duty to country and honor to his family as he is assigned by General MacArthur to infiltrate the Imperial Japanese Army in the lead-up to an invasion of the Japanese archipelago..."--Dust jacket flap.
ISBN:
1934287806
9781934287804
OCLC:
(OCoLC)436030140
Locations:
ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

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