Werner Herzog, Debut Novelist

Werner Herzog is the bard of the man against. Therefore, it is only fitting that for his first novel, The Twilight World, Herzog has chosen to fictionalize the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who spent 30 years hiding on the Philippine island of Lubang and was largely responsible for creating the legend of the Zanryu nipponhei, the holdout World War II Japanese soldiers.