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".the story of how, almost accidentally, these attacks began in successful acts of individual bravery by pilots wounded or trapped in fatally damaged aircraft. It traces their development through the campaigns waged in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The largely unsuccessful attempts to carry out similar attacks undersea with specially adapted types of midget submarines are also fully described, and there are interesting sidelights on military "suicide" defensive tactics and on the way in which the general policy gradually gained its often unwilling acceptance at the highest military and political level." Copyright 1971, Robert Laffont. Translation Copyright 1971, The McCall Publishing Company. Translated by Lowell Bair. Original blue papered boards, lettered silver on spine. One small dent in fore edge front cover else fine. Illustrated dustwrapper, protected, minor wear at spine ends. Pp.viii (last blank verso) 243 including Foreword, I: Amazing Japan, II: The Path to Sacrifice, III: The Philippines: Birthplace of the Kamikazes, IV: From Experiment to Generalization, V: Escalation, VI: Nautical Kamikazes, VII: The Kikusuis of Okinawa, VIII: The Holocaust, IX: Eternal Japan, Bibliography, Index, Illustration section (black and white photographs). Seller Inventory # 13935
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