Thunder Gods. The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story

by NAITO, HUTSUHO

First Edition

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Book description: Tokyo,: Kodansha International Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0870119095 . 215 pages, 8 plates, map, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the publisher: Thunder Gods is the compelling, first-hand account of the pilots who pledged themselves to die for their emperor in the closing days of the Pacific War. Known to the world as kamikaze - divine wind - their suicide attacks on American naval forces caused panic and disruption, but hey were born out of the desperation of the Imperial Command, determined to avoid the shame of surrender at any cost. Used as a rationale the loudly proclaimed belief that suicide attacks by Japanese pilots attested to the spiritual righteousness of Japan's struggle, the Command's exhortations convinced legions of young men of the virtue of volunteering for the Ohka program, in which flying bombs were constructed whose only guiding mechanism was their human cargo. The pilots are the thunder gods of the title, and this is the first time they have told their own story. Weaving the recollections of surviving participants with the documented history of the period, Hatsuho Naito recreates the kamikaze phenomenon with a unique human dimension. .

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