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In the history of the twentieth century,
the role of the military intelligence services in the competition
among nations is still murky. Among the world's foremost
intelligence services, those of Imperial Japan remain the least
known. Few stories are as compelling as those surrounding the
Japanese Army's Nakano School. From 1938 to 1945, the Nakano School
trained more than 2,000 men in intelligence gathering, propaganda,
and irregular warfare. Working in the shadows, these dedicated
warriors executed a range of missions, from gathering intelligence
in Latin America to leading commando raids against American lines
in Papua New Guinea, in the Philippines, and on Okinawa. They
played major roles in operations to subvert British rule in India,
and they organized Japanese civilians into guerrilla units that
would have made the invasion of Japan a bloodbath. One graduate
used his Nakano commando training to elude U.S. and Philippine
military patrols until emerging from the jungle nearly thirty years
after the war's end. In the decades after World War II, graduates
of the school worked to obtain from the United States and Russia
the release of imprisoned war criminals and the recovery of lost
territory, including Okinawa. Based on archival research and the
memoirs of Japanese veterans, THE SHADOW WARRIORS OF NAKANO shines
a much-needed light into the shadows of World War II and postwar
Japanese affairs. |
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