^Lot 363 Hiroo Onoda

WWII Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who, under the specific orders to never surrender, spent a staggering thirty 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 dustjacket, 6 x 8.5, 219 pages. Signed on the title page in black ink in English and Japanese. In fine condition, with some light wear to dustjacket.