这本书写的不是故事,不是小说,也不完全是战场日记,而是一位有良知的日本老兵(陆军少尉)历时24年写成的关于侵华战争的自传体的回忆录。作者在书中既真实地回忆了他本人如何一心为天皇效忠,甘愿为天皇卖命,参加了侵华战争;又写了对战争的反省,对战争性质的剖析,从中得出那场所谓的“圣战”是不折不扣的非人道的侵略战争的结论。作者经过战后多年的反思,感到在侵华战争时期自己是个盲目的“爱国”者。他接受日本发动侵略战争的教训,出于热爱、关注日本的现在和将来,大声疾呼:中日应该永远友好下去,为共同繁荣而携手共进。本书第一编突出描写、批判了作者自幼所受的皇权军国主义教育,也反映了当 This book is not a story, nor is it a novel, nor a complete diary of the battlefield, but a memoir of autobiographical narratives of 24 years that a conscientious Japanese veteran (lieutenant army) wrote about the war on China. In the book, the author not only truly recalled how he wholeheartedly loyal to the emperor, willing to sacrifice for the emperor to participate in the war of aggression against China, but also wrote an introspection of the war, an analysis of the nature of the war, from which the so-called “Jihad” is the verdict of the inhuman war of aggression. After years of reflection in the post-war period, the author felt that he was a blind patriot in the period of the invasion of China. He accepted Japan’s lesson of launching a war of aggression. Out of his love and attention to Japan’s present and future, he said loudly: China and Japan should always be friendly and join hands for common prosperity. The first part of the book highlights the description, criticized the author’s royal imperialism militarism education, also reflected when