This is an original wartime Japanese book titled. An Imperial Japanese Army accounting and supply officer. This is not a postwar memoir, but a wartime publication issued while the war was still ongoing. What makes this book especially interesting is the author's position. Kashiwagi was not simply writing from the viewpoint of an ordinary front-line soldier. A branch responsible for supply, food, materials, finance, and logistics.
Guadalcanal is remembered as one of the most brutal campaigns of the Pacific War, especially because of starvation, failed supply lines, disease, and...
