The joy of watching your 87-year-old father autograph his first book

The story is told in EATEN BY THE JAPANESE, which is now also available in paperback from amazon.com and as an e-book from many different platforms.

The joy of seeing my father do this (yes, I was the photographer):






That's my father on the left, and he is signing the first edition. (The new paperback, with this photograph, is the third edition).

The book is available at:

www.amazon.com/Eaten-Japanese-Memoir-Indian-Prisoner/dp/1480034053/
and more links here:

http://richardcrasta.com/products/eaten-by-the-japanese/

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