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Saigo Takamori The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. Mark Ravina. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. 265 pp. $16.95.

"Reading Mark Ravina's thoroughly researched biography, I was not surprised to find that the cold hard facts of Saigo's death lacked the glory of the popular versions that I had heard. Many of the images of Saigo from ...

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