THE EMPEROR'S GENERAL; A Novel / James Webb

New York: Broadway Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, tall 8vo, red quarter cloth and black boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial red dust jacket (unclipped) with American eagle as Rising Sun on flag, [xii] + 401 pages. James Henry Webb Jr. (born 1946) is an American politician and author. He has served as a United States Senator from Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Counsel for the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and is a decorated Marine Corps officer.<br/> <br/> Outside of working in government, Webb is also an Emmy Award winning journalist, filmmaker, and author of ten books. In addition, he taught literature at the United States Naval Academy and was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. <br/> <br/> He has written more than 10 novels, and his Fields of Fire became a NYTimes Bestseller and movie.<br/> <br/> In The Emperor's General, Captain Jay Marsh, who experienced the horror left by retreating Japanese in the Philippiines during the last days of World War Two, becomes General Douglas MacArthur's confidant, translator, and spy. As a consequence, Marsh winds up playing a dangerous game of deceit and brutal injustice in the shadow world of postwar Japan's royal palaces. To his dismay, he realizes that the defeated emperor and his wily aides were exploiting MacArthur's ruthless ambition to become the American Caesar. <br/> <br/> SUPERIOR CONDITION! Tight, bright, very clean copy. Sharp and clean unclipped dust jacket with minimal edgewear.