1972; St. Martin's Press; hardbound; very good condition; dust jacket very good.
 
from dust flap -
For a Japanese soldier there has been traditionally no surrender but death.  Yet, by August 1944 over a thousand Japanese prisoners had been confined to the No. 12 P.O.W. Camp at Cowra, New South Wales, in Australia.  Unwillingly captured, fulled with shame and anger at betraying a moral code, fanatically religious in its intensity, the prisoners at last resolved to reach for the only option at their command - a suicidal charge at the barbed wire and machine-gun posts that surrounded them...