Oba The Last Samurai. Saipan 1944-1945.

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(Shrewsbury) England: Airlife (1986). 8vo.Or.cl. d.w. (VI 242pp.). With a full-page map. 1st Eng. ed. NOTE: In July 1944 American forces captured most of Saipan. Captain Sakae Oba of the Imperial Japanese Navy refused to surrender and with a small group of followers held out until the end of the Second World War.