Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze Back with Caliber after more than a decade out of print, a revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots…
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Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
Back with Caliber after more than a decade out of print, a revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots of World War II--as told through the eyes of the survivorsIn the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. 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? Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one's life to defend the homeland.
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