WWII Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who, under the specific orders to never surrender, spent a staggering 30 years holding out in the Philippines until receiving definitive word that the war was over. Signed book: No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War. First edition. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 8.5, 219 pages. Signed on the title page in black felt tip, in Japanese characters and in English, “Onoda Hiroo, Tokyo 15.3.1012.” Light staining to edges, otherwise fine condition. RR Auction COA.
