The Japanese Soldier Who Hid in a Cave Until 1972

For nearly twenty-eight years after the Second World War ended, Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi kept fighting it — alone, in a hole beneath a bamboo thicket in the jungle of Guam. When two fishermen waded into him one January evening in 1972, they found a gaunt stranger dressed in cloth woven from tree bark, still braced for a war that had ended a generation before. But here's what most people get wrong: Yokoi *knew* the war was over. He'd read the leaflets, seen the newspapers. The real mystery isn't how he survived out there. It's why he refused to come home.