Pierre Berton was born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily.
Buku ini menceritakan secara mendetail kehidupan Tokugawa Yoshinobu, dari mulai dilahirkan di keluarga Mito, dibesarkan sebagai Hitotsubashi, menjadi pengawail keshogunan, sampai pada akhirnya menjadi seorang shogun.
This nightmarish memoir allows the reader to look over Jason Moss's shoulder into the trpubling and chilling pit of humanity's darkest and most vile misconduct.