Hiroo Onoda's 29-Year War

In December 1944, a 22-year-old intelligence officer named Hiroo Onoda was sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines. He had trained at an elite spy school, where he learned that his first duty was to stay alive behind enemy lines, however many years it took. His commander, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, gave him a final order. The major told him, 'You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we'll come back for you.' Onoda was to wreck the airstrip and the pier, then lead a guerrilla campaign from the hills. He believed every word. This is the story of a soldier who kept fighting a war that had already ended, and why it took 29 years to stop him. What would it take to end his war?