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The book was fairly good, I read it last month. It wasn’t really my cup of tea (even though I love Herzog’s documentaries and the subject matter of the Pacific war) but the writer’s fascination with Onoda and one of these sorts of “extremes of human experience” comes through. It’s fairly short, can’t be more than a couple hundred pages. Worth checking out if you can find it in your local library’s e-book collection or something but I don’t know that I’d buy it personally.
This concludes my impromptu review of the Twilight World lol.
P.S. Herzog’s documentary called Happy People about Russian fur trappers living in the taiga was fascinating, highly recommend it.
‘Conflicted: A History Podcast’ did an excellent standalone episode on Onona you’re sure to like if you enjoy Dan’s style.
"Does war dream of war?" is the most Herzogian sentence that I've ever read