The War Within - Cruelty the unforgiving force

By D KAY

In 1941, a boy in Hiroshima glimpses a stranger's eyes through the steam of a bathhouse - and believes, with all the certainty of youth, that his life is now bound to hers forever.

Months later, Markoto Fujii is a soldier in occupied Singapore, standing in a forest with his rifle raised at a terrified, unarmed farmer who has stripped himself bare trying to prove he carries no threat. A command is given. A trigger is pulled. And in the dying man's eyes, Markoto sees something that will haunt him for the rest of his life - the same eyes he fell in love with, worn by a stranger he has just killed.

The War Within follows Markoto across a war he cannot escape and a guilt he cannot outrun - through the horror of occupation, a failed mass suicide, years as a prisoner of war, and a lonely return to a homeland turned to ash. It follows Gwee Lan, a woman who trades everything - her name, her safety, her own body - to protect a family that will never know what she sacrificed for them. And it follows Fei Yan, a child raised in poverty and shame, who grows into a woman capable of loving the very man responsible for her father's death - before she learns the truth.

Spanning three countries and seven decades, The War Within is a story about the debts cruelty leaves unpaid, the sacrifices history never records, and the long, unfinished work of forgiveness. Some wars end with a surrender. This one lasted a lifetime.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819475155
• ISBN13: 9789819475155
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Dkay Publication
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"