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Author : Jerry Ahern
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612323367
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Kamikaze Legacy written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. G. Sheftall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593472322
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Blossoms in the Wind written by M. G. Sheftall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 were hastily trained in the basics of piloting an airplane, then sent out in waves to crash into enemy warships, suicide attacks that killed altogether some seven thousand American sailors. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle and lived? In the wake of 9/11, ethnographer M. G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the cloistered community of Japan’s last remaining kamikaze survivors. As an American fluent in Japanese, Sheftall was the only westerner to ever sit face-to-face with these men and hear their stories. The result is a fascinating journey into the lives, indoctrination, and mindsets of the kamikaze, through the eyes of participants who are now lost to time.
Author : Jerry Ahern
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612323340
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book WerewolveSS written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226620921
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Kamikaze Diaries written by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives.” So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics and chauvinists who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. But the writings explored here by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney clearly and eloquently speak otherwise. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer for this desperate military operation. Such young men were the intellectual elite of modern Japan: steeped in the classics and major works of philosophy, they took Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” as their motto. And in their diaries and correspondence, as Ohnuki-Tierney shows, these student soldiers wrote long and often heartbreaking soliloquies in which they poured out their anguish and fear, expressed profound ambivalence toward the war, and articulated thoughtful opposition to their nation’s imperialism. A salutary correction to the many caricatures of the kamikaze, this poignant work will be essential to anyone interested in the history of Japan and World War II.
Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199693625
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book How Fighting Ends written by Holger Afflerbach and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of surrender is one of the most neglected in the history of war, and yet it is vital to understanding not only how wars end but also how they are contained. This is a book with a chronological sweep that runs from the Stone Age to the present day, written by a team of truly distinguished scholars.
Author : Kazuo Odachi
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462921493
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Kamikaze written by Kazuo Odachi and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner** 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 was "ten dead, zero alive." By picking up Memoirs of a Kamikaze, readers will experience the hardships of fighter pilot training--dipping and diving and watching as other trainees crash into nearby mountainsides. They'll witness the psychological trauma of coming to terms with death before each mission, and breathe a sigh of relief with Odachi when his last mission is cut short by Japan's eventual surrender. They'll feel the anger at a government and society that swept so much of the sacrifice under the rug in its desperation to rebuild. Odachi's innate "samurai spirit" carried him through childhood, WWII and his eventual life as a kendo instructor, police officer and detective. His attention to detail, unwavering self-discipline and impenetrably strong mind were often the difference between life and death. Odachi, who is now well into his nineties, kept his Kamikaze past a secret for most of his life. Seven decades later, he agreed to sit for nearly seventy hours of interviews with the authors of this book--who know Odachi personally. He felt it was his responsibility to finally reveal the truth about the Kamikaze pilots: that they were unsuspecting teenagers and young men asked to do the bidding of superior officers who were never held to account. This book offers a new perspective on these infamous suicide pilots. It is not a chronicle of war, nor is it a collection of research papers compiled by scholars. It is a transcript of Odachi's words.
Author : Jerry Ahern
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612323308
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Miamigrad written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yasuo Kuwahara
Publisher : American Legacy Media
ISBN 13 : 0976154757
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Kamikaze written by Yasuo Kuwahara and published by American Legacy Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic World War II autobiography describes the horrors of war and the author's brutal training and experiences as a kamikaze pilot.
Author : Kate Taylor-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150130612X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and Its Legacy written by Kate Taylor-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing cinema in terms of Imperialism and Colonialism, Divine Work directly contributes to the understanding of cinema produced during Japan’s colonial period and its lingering legacies.
Author : Jerry Ahern
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612323286
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Freeman written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Ahern
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1628151447
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)
Download or read book The Golden Shield of IBF written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Macleod
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582796
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Defeat and Memory written by J. Macleod and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
Author : Jerry Ahern
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612323324
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Yakusa Tattoo written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Ahern
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612323243
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book River of Gold written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674024700
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Ruptured Histories written by Sheila Miyoshi Jager and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New forms of nationalism have affected American policy in the Pacific, challenging the post-communist world order. This book explores the wars of the modern era, illuminating regional and global changes in East Asia, and underscoring the need to redefine the Cold War language that still continues to inform U.S.–East Asian relations.
Author : Joseph Wheelan
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306903210
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Bloody Okinawa written by Joseph Wheelan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. Waves of Japanese kamikaze and conventional warplanes sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others, and killed nearly 5,000 US seamen. When the slugfest ended after 82 days, more than 125,000 enemy soldiers lay dead—along with 7,500 US ground troops. Tragically, more than 100,000 Okinawa civilians perished while trapped between the armies. The brutal campaign persuaded US leaders to drop the atomic bomb instead of invading Japan. Utilizing accounts by US combatants and Japanese sources, author Joseph Wheelan endows this riveting story of the war's last great battle with a compelling human dimension.
Author : R.G. Grant
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465469362
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Flight written by R.G. Grant and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the fascinating stories behind humankind's conquest of the skies, from dreamers and inventors to modern-day astronauts. Take a sky-high journey through the Wright brothers' first powered flight, to Concorde's final voyage, to the tragic crash of the Columbia, and more, in this stunning book packed with information on the history of aviation. Charting the trailblazers, jet test pilots, and constant progress at the cutting-edge of technology, every aspect of flight is explored. Recalling memorable events of the sky - record-breaking flights, aerial warfare, and hijackings - Flight is the story of how our dream to fly became a reality. This visual guide features remarkable photography on every page and galleries throughout to showcase important aircraft - with multiple viewpoints and their key statistics. Anyone interested in airplanes and vehicles of the sky, and their inventors, engineers, and pilots should have this book on their shelf.
