{"product_id":"9781934757772","title":"Under The Rising Sun","description":"Paul Swinburne, a young naval officer, is court martialed; but he refuses to testify on his own behalf. No one knows why. As a result, he is dismissed from the Royal Navy; and his hopes and dreams are shattered-or are they? \u003cp\u003eThe Japanese and the Russians are edging toward war, and the Japanese are sorely in need of trained naval officers. Swinburne is recruited and travels half-way around the world to fight for a country about which he knows little, and in a war about which he knows nothing. That, however, does not keep him from engaging in a series of breathtaking adventures and ultimately achieving great distinction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking this book even more interesting is that it is one of the very few novels that is set during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. Yet it was this war that established Japan as a serious military power in Asia; and, in effect, sewed the seeds for WW-II. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Joseph Cosens Lancaster was the son of a Royal Navy captain and educated at the Naval College, Greenwhich. Even though he had been at sea since the age of 15, he had to abandon a career in the Royal Navy because of severe myopia which kept him from clearly seeing anything more than a few hundred yards away. If he couldn't serve aboard ships, he could certainly write about them-producing 23 nautically-related novels over a 27 year career under the pseudonym: Harry Collingwood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fireship Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058646401264,"sku":"9781934757772","price":13.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934757772_p0.jpg?v=1763642589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934757772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}