BOOK REVIEW: Ninja: A History by John Man
Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior by John Man
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The author, John Man, isn’t the first historian to fall for the siren call of ninja history only to plummet into a catch-22, but he’s the one I’m reviewing right now. So, while his book isn’t exceptionally bad, it’s tremendously flawed in a manner common across ninja histories. What is said catch-22? On the one hand, ninja ...