Requiem for Battleship Yamato |
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Author:
| Mitsuru, Yoshida |
Read by:
| Malcolm, Graeme |
Translator:
| Minear, Richard |
ISBN: | 978-1-5366-4053-3 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2017 |
Publisher: | Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
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Imprint: | Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio |
Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru's story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war. The book has long been considered a classic in both Japan and the United...
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru's story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war. The book has long been considered a classic in both Japan and the United States. As with most great battle stories, its ultimate concern is less bombs and bullets than human nature, less death than life.