I'm currenty reading a fascinating book by Hiroo Onoda. He's the Japanese army officer who refused to believe the Second World War was over... until 1974. He remained hiding on an island off the Phillipines practicing guerilla warfare against the islanders until he received direct instructions from his commanding officer to give up.
The Japanese government sent search parties again and again to the island to persude Onoda to give up. They dropped leaflets, left newspapers, even sent his brother, but he refused to believe it wasn't a ploy by the Americans to capture him. It makes me think: how could you guarantee that what someone told you was genuine?
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