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Title: A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945 by Russell Spurr ISBN: 1-55704-248-9 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: SUPERB ACCOUNT OF YAMATO'S LAST VOYAGE
Comment: This account certainly deserves five stars, no question about it. Spurr presents an excellent and very readable account of the last sailing of the Yamato on it's suicide mission to Okinawa. The author switches back and forth between the American side and the Japanese side, and, because of this, presents two sides of the same event. And, when reading both sides, the reader gets the impression that the author has done one heck of a job of research. The American characters, and especially the Japanese characters, come alive as real people, in real situations, in real action. Spurr has done an excellent job in both research and presentation; the book is exciting and hard to put down once you start reading. I was also impressed with the clarity of maps and diagrams, which, in most books of this period, are so small and blurry they are impossible to read. A great battleship. A great story.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Moving Account of the Final Mission of the Yamato
Comment: This was a very decent and well researched account of the final mission of the Japanese Battleship 'Yamato'. The story was told well and the author made good use of first hand accounts by the participants on both sides. The book shows that not all Japanese were fanatical in their desire to die for no good cause, a lot where soldiers/sailors doing their duty as they saw fit.
The author presented some very interesting accounts of young Japanese sailors and of some young American pilots. It also offered a overview of the whole suicide campaign against Allied forces off Okinawa. This was a easy book to read and I came away feeling sorry for alot of the American & Japanese servicemen who gave their lives for the country. A good read!
Rating: 5
Summary: It's as if you were really there- watching & listening
Comment: I purchased this book to obtain background info while researching information for my family tree. This book is a *gem*! It is easy-to-read, even for non-history and non-military interested people. It gives the reader an inside look into the decisions/actions that took place from both sides of the battle day-by-day and reads like a novel. Highly recommended.
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Title: Requiem for Battleship Yamato by Yoshida Mitsuru, Richard H. Minear, Mitsuru Yoshida ISBN: 1557505446 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II by Rikihei Inoguchi, Tadashi Nakajima, Roger Pineau ISBN: 155750394X Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Gods by Albert Axell, Hideaki Kase ISBN: 058277232X Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story by Mitsuo Fuchida, Masatake Okumiya, Thomas B. Buell, Clarke H. Kawakami, Roger Pineau, Raymond A. Spruance ISBN: 1557504288 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy by Hiroyuki Agawa, John Bester ISBN: 4770025394 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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