This is the beautiful, true story of a tragic love affair. When Arthur Hart-Synnot, a disciplined, conservative British army officer met Masa Suzuki, a bright, beautiful Japanese girl, whilst on a military posting to Japan, the pair fell deeply and hopelessly in love. Masa was more than a 'temporary wife' like most of the other officer's Japanese girlfriends. Arthur described her as 'the supreme woman in the world'. When he was recalled to England, then sent to Burma, and then to India, their relationship struggled on, in ...
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This is the beautiful, true story of a tragic love affair. When Arthur Hart-Synnot, a disciplined, conservative British army officer met Masa Suzuki, a bright, beautiful Japanese girl, whilst on a military posting to Japan, the pair fell deeply and hopelessly in love. Masa was more than a 'temporary wife' like most of the other officer's Japanese girlfriends. Arthur described her as 'the supreme woman in the world'. When he was recalled to England, then sent to Burma, and then to India, their relationship struggled on, in the face of opposition from her family, from the massive gap between their cultures, from the military and from the huge distances between them. ept going by the many letters they both dedicated themselves to writing, they remained devoted to each other, despite seeing each other only for a few weeks over more than a decade. Masa gave birth to two sons who she raised alone in Japan, waiting for the day Arthur would return from his latest army posting. Yet tragedy was to strike and after being horrifically wounded in World War One, Arthur was never able to return to his love. his is a unique picture of the world seen from two very different perspectives. It is
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Very Good. 8vo. ix, 317pp, three maps, 6pp of photographs, notes. Paperback. The story of an extraordinary love affair between Captain Arthur Hart-Synnot, a disciplined, conservative officer and Masa Suzuki, a bright, beautiful Japanese girl and the barriers of race and class they faced.
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Very Good. 9781846050466. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Previous owner's name in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1846050464. ISBN/EAN: 9781846050466. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10003.
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