God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (The Warriors)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1574886959 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said You don't want to miss out on one of history's most fascinating individuals!. I highly recommend this book A+++++ I myself have been fascinated with Fuchida's life for many years and have hoped to find a book worth reading on him. This book is it! The research is impeccable. The book begins with his childhood and then takes off on his military career bringing the reader front and center into the war and the Japanese mindset. Then Fu. Michael Rendos said I highly recommend for anyone interested in the PacificTheatre from the view. A very well-written chronology of one man's experience as a Japanese naval aviator from his leading the air attack at Pearl Harbor to his life after the war ended. Spell bounding account and a book that cannot be put down. I highly recommend for anyone interested in the PacificTheatre from the view of a Japanese military officer.. Good gift JGM Bought as a gift for a military history buff. He was happy and said the book gave him some interesting information plus a different viewpoint. Neither one of us are military historians so our critique is one of a general audience.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. The story of his military career, his conversion, his first fumbling efforts as a preacher and his success as an international evangelist make for a story that is alternately exciting, moving and spiritually rewarding. Photos. Based on interviews that began soon after the war and continued until Fuchida's death in 1976, this biography covers Fuchida's dazzling wartime exploits and provides insight into Japanese naval air tactics. 25,000 first printing; $25,000 ad/promo. The account of his comedown from war hero to obscure dirt farmer is poignant. Prange, with Goldstein and Dillon, wrote At Dawn We Slept . The authors compare him to an unattached samurai during this period, searching for "a liege lord to receive his ardent allegiance." Fuchida found a banner for his sword when he converted to Christianity and became a nondenomi
A valuable record of major events, it is also the personal story of a man swept along by his times. God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. After a scandalous love affair came his remarkable conversion to Christianity and years of touring the world as an evangelist. Reared in the vanished culture of early twentieth-century Japan, war hero Fuchida returned home to become a simple farmer. His tale is an informative, personal look at the war "from the other side."