Resumption

Name: Resumption
Rating: 4.27 (437 reviews)

by Christopher Nicole Book 3 in the Dawson Saga series.

First published 1992

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In the course of her war with China, the armies of Imperial Japan attack and sack the city of Nanking. Caught up in the fighting are two young men, Lieutenant Jack Dawson of the Royal Navy, serving on board one of the British gunboats patrolling the Yangste-Kiang, and Lieutenant-Commander Hirada Tanawa, a pilot with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Out of the bloodshed and the savage destruction of the city a friendship begins – one which is to have tragic consequences.

Resumption traces the course of this friendship down to 10 December 1941, when the two men find themselves at war with each other. It tells of Jack Dawson — son of the World War I hero — and his unhappy marriage, his adventures and his love affairs... And it tells of Hirada Tanawa’s visit to England in 1938, and his successful wooing of Rear-Admiral Giles Dawson’s eldest daughter Georgiana — Jack Dawsons's cousin. The friendship between Jack Dawson and Hirada Tanawa develops as Britain and Japan prepare to become enemies, while Georgiana Dawson’s marriage in Japan exposes the domestic cost of militarisation and racial nationalism.