Have you heard of Hiroo Onoda? He was stationed (or "hidden") as a guerrilla fighter on a small Philippine island, and his superiors told him to keep fighting until he received further orders. These orders never came so he kept fighting until 1974!
He dismissed all leaflets, newspapers etc. that were dropped for him as propaganda, since they showed Americans living with Japanese side by side, and if Japan had lost, all Japanese would have obviously died fighting. He published interesting, but not that truthfully ghost-written memoirs (he does not mention that he killed several islanders).