Author: OHNUKI-TIERNEY, EMIKO
Title: Kamikaze Diaries Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
Description: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0226619508. B&W Photographs; 9 X 6.20 X 1.10 inches; xviii, 227 pages; Hard cover is red with silver lettering on spine. Gift inscription on half title page. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. DJ has light shelf wear; in a mylar cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs. "This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the 'tokkotai' and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war... Clearly and eloquently speak otherwise [not fanatics, sic]. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer for this desperate military operation". Notes; References; Index.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0226619508 Japan; Japanese History; World War 2; World War Ii; Soldiers; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural History; Diaries; Correspondence; Cultural History Education History American History Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals Japan Reference Government/