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Onward towards our noble deaths / Shigeru Mizuki ; translation by Jocelyne Allen.
- Title
- Onward towards our noble deaths / Shigeru Mizuki ; translation by Jocelyne Allen.
- Author
- Mizuki, Shigeru, 1922-2015
- Publication
- Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2011.
- ©2011
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- Additional Authors
- Allen, Jocelyne, 1974-
- Description
- 372 pages : chiefly illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "[A] semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War Two. The soldiers are instructed that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive"
- Uniform Title
- Soin gyokusai seyo! English
- Alternative Title
- Soin gyokusai seyo!
- Subject
- 1939-1945
- Soldiers > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > New Guinea > Comic books, strips, etc
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc. > Japan > Translations into English
- Graphic novels
- Soldats > Japon > Bandes dessinées
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Nouvelle-Guinée > Bandes dessinées
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Japon > Bandes dessinées
- Romans graphiques
- graphic novels
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Military campaigns
- Soldiers
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japan
- Japan
- New Guinea
- Genre/Form
- Graphic novels – Japan – Translations into English.
- graphic novels.
- comic books.
- comic strips.
- manga (comic books)
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Autobiographical comics
- Graphic novels
- Historical comics
- Translations
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Manga
- Mangas.
- Romans graphiques.
- Bandes dessinées.
- Note
- "Originally published as Soin gyokusai seyo! in 1973."
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Frederik L. Schodt -- Characters -- Kokopo, New Britain -- Rain in Baien -- Hard labour and a few slaps -- Little finger -- New year's -- The enemy arrives -- Special attack unit -- HQ's near destruction -- The death of Sergeant Honda -- Noble death -- That night -- Cape St. George -- Emissary of death -- Cape massacre.
- ISBN
- 9781770460416
- 1770460411
- LCCN
- 2010680993
- 99958407714
- OCLC
- 682894288
- SCSB-10654562
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library