The Sun and the Dragon

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In the closing years of the nineteenth century, Japan is preparing for war with her mighty neighbours. William Freeman, son of a U.S. officer and a Japanese noblewoman, is drawn back to serve the land of his birth -- fighting brilliantly in the Imperial Navy, and snatching bold victories against first China and then the might of Tsarist Russian. But Freeman is appalled by the barbaric atrocities that follow each triumph. And his heart is fatally torn between his American fiancée and the exquisite geisha who teaches him the arts of love…