Author: Spurr, Russell,
Title: A GLORIOUS WAY TO DIE - The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945.
Description: Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1982, 1st edn. UK, x, 341pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawings and 4 maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the biggest battleship in the world, the Japanese Navy's Yamoto, of over 70,000 tons with nine 18 inch guns it was made obsolete by the time of Pearl Harbor by the more effective carriers, and of the concept of Kamikaze attacks, the leadership, morale and spirit of the men who took part in them, one of the last being the Kamikaze mission of the Yamoto when called on to defend Okinawa against the US invasion without air cover and with only a few escorts, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint foxing upper edge, pages a little tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper

Keywords: war ww2 japan kamikaze yamato


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