Black Glasses Like Clark Kent

A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan

Terese Svoboda author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Graywolf Press,U.S.

Published:2nd Jul '08

Should be back in stock very soon

Black Glasses Like Clark Kent cover

Svoboda's uncle was a former military policeman in U.S. occupied Japan who boasted a washboard stomach even at age 80. He loved telling war stories until the news of Abu Ghraib reached him, after which he fell into a severe depression. The tapes on which he was recording his memoirs ended abruptly with his suicide, sparking Svoboda's interest in her uncle's history and her investigative trip to Japan where she conducted extensive research on her uncle's experiences as an MP in Japan, including his shocking claim that Americans were executed by their own countrymen.

ISBN: 9781555974909

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 316g

224 pages