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Author : Yoshida Mitsuru
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612512082
A young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.
Author : Mitsuru Yoshida
Publisher : Constable Limited
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0094797803
Yoshida Mitsuru''s first-hand account of the Second World War battle leading to the destruction of Japan''s battleship Yamato is a classic of war literature'
Author : Mitsuru Yoshida
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 4770012292
Author : Mitsuru Yoshida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 029596216X
The author recounts his experiences as a junior naval officer on the Yamato during World War II and describes battles with the American forces
Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631493423
An extraordinary—and strikingly illustrated—reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai—the ideals of honor, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness. Stoically poised for battle in the spring of 1945—when even Japan’s last desperate technique of arms, the kamikaze, was running short—Yamato arose as the last magnificent arrow in the imperial quiver of Emperor Hirohito. Here, Jan Morris not only tells the dramatic story of the magnificent ship itself—from secret wartime launch to futile sacrifice at Okinawa—but, more fundamentally, interprets the ship as an allegorical figure of war itself, in its splendor and its squalor, its heroism and its waste. Drawing on rich naval history and rhapsodic metaphors from international music and art, Battleship Yamato is a work of grand ironic elegy.
Author : Russell Spurr
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1557049130
Acclaimed by Critics, Historians, and Military Leaders the World Over
Author : Daniel Knowles
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
• Relive the dramatic final days of the world’s largest battleship as she embarked on her final and doomed kamikaze mission • Unveil the cloak of secrecy that surrounded Japan’s ultimate warships and what American intelligence knew and when • Beautifully illustrated with many rare and unpublished photographs • A must-have for military and historians, enthusiasts, modellers, gamers, and those interested in the complexities of naval warfare during the Second World War The Yamato and her sistership Musashi represented the ultimate development in the battleship during the Second World War and were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed. Named after the Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior fleet of the US Navy. Built amongst a shroud of secrecy and deception – and commissioned shortly after the outbreak of the war in the Pacific – she was present at a number of engagements, including the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Despite having been designed to engage and sink enemy surface vessels, the Yamato would only fire her unrivalled 18.1-inch guns at an enemy surface target on one occasion in October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In the final months of the war, as kamikaze aircraft targeted American landing fleets off Okinawa, the Yamato embarked on a one-way mission of ultimate sacrifice. In a last desperate roll of the dice in an attempt to wreak havoc on the landing forces around Okinawa, the last stepping stone prior to an invasion of the Japanese home islands, the Yamato finally succumbed to a mass aerial attack by carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers. Despite being antiquated products of war from the moment of their construction, the Yamato and Musashi enjoy an iconic figure of Japanese might in mainstream consciousness such as films and anime.
Author : Kazushige Todaka,Kure Maritime Museum,Robert D. Eldridge
Publisher : Japanese Naval Warship Photo A
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1682473856
"This volume features selected photos of the Japanese battleships, Yamato and Musashi, from the archives of the Kure Maritime Museum. It includes photos taken by the Kure Naval Arsenal of the ships' construction and sea trials, as well as photos of the ships from private individuals"--
Author : Tameichi Hara
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513744
This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The author was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the "Unsinkable Captain." A hero to his countrymen, Capt. Hara exemplified the best in Japanese surface commanders: highly skilled (he wrote the manual on torpedo warfare), hard driving, and aggressive. Moreover, he maintained a code of honor worthy of his samurai grandfather, and, as readers of this book have come to appreciate, he was as free with praise for American courage and resourcefulness as he was critical of himself and his senior commanders.
Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780702251269
A heartwarming tale of courage, resilience and hope from master storyteller and winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal, Linda Sue Park. When her name was Keoko, Japan owned Korea, and Japanese soldiers ordered people around, telling them what they could do or say, even what sort of flowers they could grow. When her name was Keoko, World War II came to Korea, and her friends and relatives had to work and fight for Japan. When her name was Keoko, she never forgot her name was actually Kim Sun-hee. And no matter what she was called, she was Korean. Not Japanese. Inspired by true-life events, this amazing story reveals what happens when your culture, country and identity are threatened.
Author : Yukichi Fukuzawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:686073875
Author : Aya Kanno
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781974714544
As the war between Lancaster and York rages on, the physical bond between Richard and Prince Edward becomes ever more apparent. Edward’s loyalties are tested in the heat of battle as his wife, Anne, carries out a desperate act to protect their dominion. -- VIZ Media
Author : Evan Mawdsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108496094
The World in 1937 -- Japan and China, 1937-1940 -- Hitler's Border Wars, 1938-1939 -- Germany Re-fights World War I, 1939 fights World War I,1939-1940 -- Wars of Ideology, 1941-1942 -- The Red Army versus the Wehrmacht, 1942-1944 -- Japan's Lunge for Empire, 1941-1942 -- Defending the Perimeter: Japan, 1942-1944 -- The 'World Ocean' and Allied Victory, 1939-1945 -- The European Periphery, 1940-1944 -- Wearing down Germany, 1942-1944 -- Victory in Europe, 1944-1945 -- End and Beginning in Asia, 1945 -- Conclusion.
Author : Janusz Skulski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781844863198
Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armour and with the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the US Pacific Fleet in the Second World War. The book contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of Yamato and her sister ship Musashi, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 1,020 perspective line artworks, 350 colour 3D views, and 30 photographs. The wreck of Musashi has been recently discovered to great excitement in Japan, renewing interest in these iconic warships. Janusz Skulski's anatomies of three renowned ships of the 20th century Japanese navy are among the most comprehensive of the Anatomy series with hundreds of meticulously researched drawings of the ships. Since their first publication he has continued to research the ships and has now produce a more definitive anatomy than was possible then. He has teamed up with 3D artist Stefan Draminksi who produces superb realistic renditions of the ships that bring a whole new level of detail to the portraits of the ships. This new editions is a genuine 'Super Anatomy' containing the most detailed renditions of these ships ever seen.
Author : Murasaki Shikibu
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141907659
The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting and drunken courtiers, and telling remarks about the timid Empress and her powerful father, Michinaga. The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology - her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.