Book on Japanese military culture sold to Cornell University Press

 

 

 World English rights  in Danny Orbach’s  Curse on this Country have been sold to Cornell University Press. Based on original documents in fifteen archives and five different languages, the book sheds light on the underground culture of insubordination that became increasingly dominant in the Japanese armed forces, until it made the Pacific War possible

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Danny Orbach

Danny Orbach

A veteran of Israeli intelligence, Danny Orbach is an associate professor for history and Asian studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He  studied for more than ten years in Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Harvard Universities. As a historian, commentator and political blogger, he  has publ...More about Danny Orbach