Kamikaze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kamikaze write by Yasuo Kuwahara. This book was released on 2007. Kamikaze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic World War II autobiography describes the horrors of war and the author's brutal training and experiences as a kamikaze pilot.
Memoirs of a Kamikaze
Memoirs of a Kamikaze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of a Kamikaze write by Kazuo Odachi. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Memoirs of a Kamikaze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. **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.
Kamikaze
Kamikaze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kamikaze write by Steven J. Zaloga. This book was released on 2011-09-20. Kamikaze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The destruction of much of the remainder of the Japanese fleet and its air arm in the later half of 1944 left the Japanese Home Islands vulnerable to attack by US naval and air forces. In desperation, the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed using “special attack” formations, or suicide attacks. These initially consisted of crude improvisations of conventional aircraft fitted with high-explosive bombs that could be crashed into US warships. Called “Divine Wind” (Kamikaze), the special attack formations first saw action in 1944, and became the scourge of the US fleet in the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. In view of the success of these attacks, the Japanese armed forces began to develop an entire range of new special attack weapons. This book will begin by examining the initial kamikaze aircraft attacks, but the focus of the book will be on the dedicated special attack weapons developed in 1944. It also covers specialized suicide attack weapons such as anti-tank lunge mines.
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms write by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honored Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honor to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism, and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
Pizzeria Kamikaze
Pizzeria Kamikaze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pizzeria Kamikaze write by Etgar Keret. This book was released on 2018-03-14. Pizzeria Kamikaze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presented for the first time in full color, award-winning writer Etgar Keret (The Seven Good Years) and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s (The Realist) powerful graphic novel, Pizzeria Kamikaze, is a most unexpected story of love, loss, and escape. Mordy wanted to get away. Now condemned to an afterlife exclusively for all victims of suicide, he still has to attend a crappy job in a place no less crappy than the place he came from. When he discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend is there too, he embarks on much needed road trip through an absurdist and fantastical landscape to find her.
