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Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944-45 Paperback - 2011

by Steven Zaloga


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Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in history from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think-tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union.

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  • Title Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944-45
  • Author Steven Zaloga
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 48
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Osprey Publishing, UK
  • Date 2011-06-21
  • ISBN 9781849083539
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Military
    • Chronological Period: 1940's

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"In this book, author Steven J. Zaloga covers all of the various equipment and methods that were seriously considered and developed in the last year or so of the Pacific War. The missions they carried out and their success or lack thereof is closely evaluated. In all, it makes for a fascinating book ...  I found [it] a delight to read..."
-Scott Van Aken, Modeling Madness

"The various pieces of artwork found throughout the book by Ian Palmer are superb, some vividly depicting scenes otherwise not captured on film, while others give clear cross-sections of the machines that made special attacks possible." -C. Peter Chen, www.ww2db.com

About the author

Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in history from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think-tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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