From the rear cover
Akira Yoshimura originally wrote Zero Fighter for the Japanese market, which is actually an interesting perspective for North American audiences to experience. For example, we are generally not aware of the success of the Zero fighter or of its significance in Japanese minds. Both the superiority of the aircraft in the early stages of the Pacific War and the great stature of Jiro Horikoshi as an aircraft designer (he is to Japan what the designer of the Spitfire is to the U.K.) will come as a revelation to most readers here. Also completely unknown to most North American readers is the story of the transport section at the Nagoya Aircraft Works. This information is woven nicely into the book, and has a great deal to say about the startling quality of Japanese wartime industry: rigid in many ways, while producing a plane of brilliant originality. The book is a moving picture of the patience of the Japanese in the face of adversity, but perhaps most important, Zero Fighter is Japanese. It is not often that a Japanese book is encountered here that divulges intimate knowledge about such a fascinating subject. There is significant value in this as we enter an era in which the Japanese and American people must share and respect the other's cultural point of view.
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- Title Zero Fighter
- Author Syoko Watanabe
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-03-11
- Features Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780275953553 / 0275953556
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.45 x 0.99 in (24.23 x 16.38 x 2.51 cm)
- Reading level 1090
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects Zero (Fighter planes)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95019744
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.544
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 05/01/1996, Page 110
- Publishers Weekly, 03/04/1996, Page 0
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