22 February, 2012

Giles Milton: NEVER SURRENDER: THE LONELY WAR OF HIROO ONODA

Giles Milton: NEVER SURRENDER: THE LONELY WAR OF HIROO ONODA: His home was a dense area of rainforest and he lived on the wild coconuts that grew in abundance.
Hiroo Onoda: never surrender
His principal enemy was the army of mosquitoes that arrived with each new shower of rain. But for Hiroo Onoda there was another enemy - one that remained elusive.
Unaware that the Second World War had ended 29 years earlier, he was still fighting a lonely guerrilla war in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines.