A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945 - Softcover

Spurr, Russell

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9781557042484: A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945

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ISBN 10: 1557042489 ISBN 13: 9781557042484

Publisher: Newmarket Press, 1999

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The only book to dramatize from both the Japanese and Allied points of view, the events surrounding this tragic, historic last mission of the biggest battleship ever built in the history of naval warfare. 49 b/w photos; graphs, maps, bibliography, index.

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About the Author:

Russell Spurr was based in Hong Kong for more than 20 years as the China and Far East correspondent for the London Daily Express and ABC Radio Network, and the chief correspondent and deputy editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was one of the first Western correspondents to report from Peking after the establishment in 1949 of the People's Republic of China. During World War II Spurr was in the Royal Indian Navy, and served in motor gunboats through most of the Burma campaign. After the Japanese surrender, he was assigned to Kure, Japan, where he first viewed the vacant dock built for the Yamato and began to pursue the story of its demise. Spurr is also the author of the highly acclaimed Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea.

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A Glorious Way To Die: The Kamikaze Mission Of The Battleship Yamato, April 1945 dramatizes the final mission of the biggest battleship every built in the history of naval warfare. Russell Spurr tells the day-by-day historic, tragic, violent events surround the final days of the battleship Yamato from both the Japanese an Allied points of view. A Glorious Way To Die is fascinating naval history and "must" reading for all World War II military studies collections. -- Midwest Book Review

First-rate military history with an unusual human dimension. -- Kirkus Reviews

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