About the Author

Henry FREI was Swiss by birth, and was a scholar of Japanese with a particular interest in Japan's wartime advance to the south. He taught for many years at Tsukuba University in Japan before his death in 2002.

Reviews

"This book finally makes it possible for the English language reader to understand the character and personality, the inhumanity but also the humanity, of the army that inflicted on the British Empire its most humiliating military disaster."