Stephen Turnbull: The Samurai [2016] hardback POETS but no one will be

but no one will be able to predict what he'll do next

Armed gangs roam a lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke

transporting the reader effortlessly from chocolate-box Devonshire to the cabaret clubs of 1920s Paris and war-torn Malta

and to the decolonial context in which he writes

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Stephen Turnbull: The Samurai [2016] hardback POETS but no one will beThe world of the samurai, the legendary elite warrior cult of old Japan, has for too long been associated solely with military history and has largely remained a mystery. In this exciting new book, Stephen Turnbull, the world's leading authority on the samurai, goes beyond the battlefield to paint a picture of the samurai as they really were. The world of the samurai warrior is revealed to be one of great richness, with familiar topics such as the