Download or read book Hell's Anvil written by Edward Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to a relaxed and friendly poet and artist put in command of three dozen comrades and subjected to weeks of relentless combat? This is true story of such a man, a Japanese platoon leader in the Philippines in 1945, told in his own words in a setting of material from U.S. and other Japanese sources for background against which the action takes place. His battlefield journal, distinguished by expressive prose and poetry in classic form, is anonymous, but the book tells how his identity is ultimately discovered, his diary restored to his family, and describes the warm reaction in Japan.