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

Spurr, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557049130 ISBN 13: 9781557049131

Publisher: WmMorrowPB, 2010

Synopsis

The only book to dramatise day by day, 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, the Yamato, in the waters off Japan during the final days of World War II. Russell Spurr was the Far East Correspondent for The Daily Express.

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Review:

"A compelling book...Mr. Spurr bases his narrative on extensive interviews with survivors from both sides." --The New York Times Book Review.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: WmMorrowPB
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1557049130
• ISBN 13: 9781557049131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368