The kamikaze hunters : fighting for the Pacific, 1945
Iredale, Will2015
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In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or kamikaze. Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they joined up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who, in the cruel last summer of the war, chose death rather than risk their country's dishonourable defeat and deliberately flew their planes into Allied aircraft carriers.
Main title:
The kamikaze hunters : fighting for the Pacific, 1945 / Will Iredale.
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Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2015.
Collation:
x, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780230768192 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.544941
Language:
English
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BRN:
1278300
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