Tacet
The literary fiction imprint of Wake Line Press
Wake Line Press publishes the documentary record of the Pacific War — manuals, memoirs, unit histories, the paper a war leaves behind. Tacet publishes what the record cannot hold.
The name is a musical direction: the instrument is present, and silent.
Titles
Where the Scarecrow Stood
Isoyama Fumihiko (磯山文彦) · A novel · November 1, 2026
New Georgia, 1943. Near Enogai Inlet, Kawamura Haruki — a gunner of the Kure 6th Special Naval Landing Force — begins keeping the names of the dead in a notebook. Luzon, 1944. Recycled through Kure and posted with a squad of strangers to a coastal outpost in Pangasinan, he is pushed inland into the Cordillera as the war arrives only in dispatches: Saipan, Leyte, Manila. The mountains take the squad a man at a time, and the notebook fills.
Drawn from unit records, after-action reports, and the memoirs of Japanese enlisted men, Where the Scarecrow Stood is a novel of the Imperial Japanese Navy's war from the deck plates down — about what an ordinary man is made to carry, what he sets down, and what refuses to be set down.
Trade paperback · 486 pages · ISBN 979-8-9940183-0-9
Ebook · ISBN 979-8-9940183-1-6
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