Dragon of the Mangroves: Inspired by True Events of World War II [ペーパーバック]

Based on a true story, a Japanese soldier fighting in the
Burma campaign during World War II discovers a deadly enemy lurking
below the water's surface. Here is the novel based on the most deadly
crocodile attack ever happened.

It was no time to fear animals when the possibility of the
enemy counteroffensive was increasing. It didn't suit a soldier to lose nerve in the presence
of a mere crocodile ...

At the end of World War II, a garrison of the Twenty-eighth Japanese
Army is deployed to Ramree Island, off the coast of Burma, to fight the Allies' severe
counteroffensive.
While on the island, Superior Private Minoru Kasuga questions a local
villager about the terrible smell coming from the saltwater creek. To his horror, the old
man tells him it is the stench of death from the breath of man-eating crocodiles that
inhabit Myinkhon Creek.

Fierce fighting drives the battalion to the island's east coast, and
they must evacuate to Burma by crossing the creek. Just before they embark, Kasuga smells the
same putrid odor that he'd questioned the villager about and warns his commanding
officer of the underwater danger. His sergeant ignores him, thinking Kasuga is obsessed
with wild stories from the villagers, and he tells the soldiers to cross the
creek.

Ordered to save the penned-in garrison, Second Lieutenant Yoshihisa Sumi
arrives on Ramree Island. But what awaits him at Myinkhon Creek is a sight too
horrible to contemplate ...

Yasuyuki Kasai was born in Tokushima, Japan. His great-great-grandfather was a samurai dispatched as a coastguardsman against the first U.S. fleet to sail to Japan, and his father was an army artilleryman during World War II. Educated at Musashino Art University, Kasai now lives in Mima, Tokushima, and works as an illustrator.