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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary story of courage, valor, and dogged determination, the vivid account of how a few brave young pilots ensured lasting peace during World War II. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze....
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fully illustrated throughout, Desperate Sunset examines the development and evolution of the kamikaze using first-hand accounts, combat reports, and archived histories. By the middle of 1944, Imperial Japan's armed forces were in an increasingly desperate situation. Its elite air corps had been wiped out over the Solomons in 1942-43, and its navy was a shadow of the force that had attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. But the Japanese had one last, desperate,...
4) Memoirs of a kamikaze: a World War II pilot's inspiring story of survival, honor and reconciliation
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history.This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who, in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships. Their callsign...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots of World War II--as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one's life to defend the homeland. Now, with the war all but lost, thousands of these determined warriors...
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