 Author Name: SPURR, Russell
Title: A GLORIOUS WAY TO DIE. The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Publisher: London Sidgwick and Jackson 1982
ISBN Number: 0283988509 / 9780283988509
Seller ID: 6382
First U.K. edition. Book in very good condition, a very light mark on front board by top edge (water stain?), otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in near fine condition, very slightly bumped at top spine edge. ix, 341pp, including bibliography and index. With 29 black-and-white photographs and 4 maps. -"The Yamato, the biggest battleship ever built was sunk on the 7th April 1945. Eyewitness accounts from the men involved, Japanese and Americans, from top admirals to fighter pilots to junior ship's gunners. Portraying the reaction of the sailors as they receive and carry out the orders "to attack - and to die."
MILITARY SECOND WORLD WAR Okinawa JAPANESE AMERICA JAPAN KAMIKAZE Battleship YAMATO pilots NAVY GUNNERS WWII air battles Bunker Hill Fifth Fleet Fuyutsuki Hiyoshi Seiichi Ito Kanoya Air Base Jiro Nomura Raymond Spruance Kyushu U.S. Fleet U.S. Fighting 30 30 Air Corp U.S. Task Force 58 U.S. Task Force 54 Yamato
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