(Ebook pdf) Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
♛ M.G. Sheftall ♛
| #1967347 in Books | 2005-07-05 | 2005-07-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.14 x1.60 x6.36l, | File Name: 0451214870 | 496 pages
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Rather they could better be described as patriots sacrificing their lives for their ...|By G. Meyers|Most insightful book I have yet read on all aspects of the kamikaze: the military leaders who conceived the last ditch, fatalistic strategy; the pilots; their families; the student supporters. Sheftall also includes poignant vignettes of the pilots' last visits with their pare|From Publishers Weekly|An independent scholar, long a resident of Japan, has produced a superior addition to the literature on Japan's tokko, or suicide, warriors. Suicidal missions—in the air (both conventional aircraft and the ineffective Ohka gu
In the last days of World War II, the Japanese unleashed a new breed of warrior. They were the kamikaze-idealistic young men believing there could be no greater glory than to sacrifice their lives in suicide attacks to defend their homeland. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle-and lived? Soon after the 9/11 attacks, ethnographer M.G. Sheftall was given unprecedentedly intimate access to the cloistered community of Japan's last remaining kamik...
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