num_pages: 345
description: Draws on more than eight hundred letters to recount the tragic romantic relationship between an ambitious British army officer and a Japanese woman, who fell in love on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War and defied conventions and the challenges of numerous military conflicts to remain in touch. Reprint.
language: English
title: Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
titlecomplete: Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
genres: Historical, History, Japan, World War I, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 197
publisher: Penguin Books