Louis Edward Rosas
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Description
American Mishima Author Louis Edward Rosas is the son of Mexican Immigrants whose father served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. In his youth he grew up on war films and military aviation in the seaside plains of Oxnard California where he watched vintage warplanes fly as they filmed various WWII dramas by the Oxnard Airport. But it was Akira Kurosawa's Samurai epic Ran that changed his views on war while creating a lasting impression of Japanese culture. Inspired by Yukio Mishima, Louis would go on to study Japanese history, language and swordsmanship before creating the first of many works.
Books
The Soldier and the Samurai
This book chronicles the fictional adventures of Shinsengumi 10th Captain Harada Sanosuke who reappears in Manchuria during the First Sino-Japan War 28 years after his alleged death in the Battle of Uneo. It is told from the perspective of the American born grandson of a former Imperial Japanese Soldier who claimed to have been saved by a mysterious elderly Japanese man claiming to be the famous lost Samurai.
HATAMOTO
Set amidst the backdrop of the Bakumatsu Period of Japan (The Last Days of the Tokugawa Shogunate), Hatamoto takes us into the world of the foreign born men who became direct Vassals of the 15th & final Shogun during the opening salvos of the Boshin War. For former American Southerner John Paul Ledoux turned Samurai Vassal, he will face the wrath of his Clan’s most senior swordsman Sir Nobutomo Matsunaga and an uncertain future he will do everything he has sworn to protect.
MY FATHER'S WAR IN VIETNAM
For every man who pulled a trigger in Vietnam, there were nine men who supported him. This is the story of one of those men: SP4 Luis Rosas-Luca and those who served with him in the U.S. Army's 1st Air Cavalry Air Mobile Division / 15th Transportation Corps Battalion Delta Company at Camp Radcliff, An Khe in the Central Highlands of the Republic of Vietnam 1965-1966. Overlooking their base stood the Hon Cong Mountain whose shadow lives on as a metaphor for the war's long reach after their tour ended and how it affected these Vietnam Veterans and their families. This book contains over 400 never before seen photographs taken by Luis Rosas during his tour in Vietnam.
ISHIMARU
Millions of miles from the nearest human outpost, the gold laden Deep Space Merchant Vessel Fortin has been high jacked of her cargo on her return flight back to Earth. After narrowly escaping to the surface of EROS 3117, Commercial Flight Engineer Michael Connors has found himself marooned and in dire need of medical attention in a place where human life cannot exist. With hours remaining on his dwindling oxygen supply, he must face his fears in the alien unknown for the fight of his life. Enter the Ishimaru, a fabled ghost ship of the past where one cannot distinguish from reality or an oxygen starved fantasy. It is here that one man will fight for survival all alone on a hostile planetoid far from home.
Ichiro Dreams In Color
In this cautionary tale, we examine what happens when a young boy's dreams of flight fly into the conflict of his grandparents generation. For a young Japanese boy named Ichiro, he will have to use his imagination to find more peaceful means to look up to the skies and dream! Inspired by true events, Ichiro Dreams In Color is the first illustrated book by author Louis Edward Rosas, the creative force that is American Mishima.
The Setting Sun
When William Merrick of the U.S. Consulate in Hakodate Japan is tasked to rescue a group of shipwrecked Americans en route to the Shogunate Capital of Edo, he unwittingly becomes swept up in a deadly plot by a secretive faction whose aim is to overthrow the Old Order of the Tokugawa Shogunate whose dwindling 266 year rule is under threat from open rebellion and all out civil war. In a feudal land ruled by powerful Samurai Warlords divided by loyalties between their Emperor and Shogun, the balance of power and the future of an Empire rests with one man under The Setting Sun.