Sword and Blossom
Subtitle: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Published: June 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781594200892
Subjects: Europe - Great Britain - General; Historical - General; Biography/Autobiography; Ethnic Sociology; Great Britain - History - 20th Century; Love; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - British; Asia - Japan; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Interracial dating; Officers; Armed Forces; Biography
First sentence: When Captain Arthur Hart-Synnot came back to Ireland on a bright summer morning in July 1906, and walked down the gangplank of the overnight boat from Holyhead, he had not seen his father for two and a half years.