At War With The Wind: The Epic Struggle With Japan's World War Ii Suicide Bombers
Author: David Sears
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: 9780806528946
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: 03 December 2009
: 229mm X 152mm X 38mm
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Description
In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorised the US Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders". Among the Japanese they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze. Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience a kamikaze attack. It draws on personal interviews and unprecedented research to create a stunning and vivid narrative of war.
