Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

by Shigeru Mizuki

Book Overview

A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists

Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today-a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WorldWar II. The soldiers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770460411
• ISBN13: 9781770460416
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.7"