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LAMONT-BROWN,RAYMOND: : KAMIKAZE: Japan's Suicide Samurai

LONDON.ARMS & ARMOUR PRESS/CASSELL GROUP,1997.

ISBN 1854093673.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicative of an export copy,which usually precedes the domestic first trade edns issue and distribution.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,b/w photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj, with red+white Japanese flag to top half above the photograph,with black lettering,rear panel with b/w photographs; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-192pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a prologue,20 chapters and an epilogue,16pp historical,contemporary b/w illus and b/w photographs in 1 block, between pp96/7,a glossary,an appendix,a biblio and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table. Out of the sun they came.Through a torrent of fire from anti-aircraft gun crews they hurled relentlessly towards their targets.Their intention was the maiming or destruction of the vessel ahead at the price of certain death amongst searing flame and twisted metal.They were Emperor Hirohito's 'suicide samurai',Japan's last response to a war that was turning against them. Kamikaze is an emotive word which has entered English language dictionaries to describe an unthinking,manic suicide act,but it was not so amongst ardently patriotic Japanese.It was not a blind,insane action on their part; those who undertook such missions were to be elevated to the status of gods; their flights were not futile gestures to them,but determined startegies which demonstrated a greater resolve than the enemy. Japanese traditional tales talk of a 'Divine Wind' - a Kami Kaze - sent by the grea Goddess of the Sun, Amaterasu Omikami,to destroy the mighty fleets of the Mongol ruler, Kublai Khan,in the 13th century. Almost seven centuries later the people of Japan petitioned another Divine Wind to defeat a powerful enemy fast approaching the motherland.So the young Kamikaze pilots were to resort to history to replicate the ancient sories by sacrificing their lives for their emperor and country in suicide attacks on Allied shipping. Here Japanologist and historian Raymond Lamont-Brown delves beneath the actual events to uncover the psychology,myth and reality of Kamikaze strategy,training and execution.He uses original Japanese records and personal testimonies to describe the organisation and operation of the Kamikaze on land, sea and in the air.The reader will gain an unprecedented understanding of the mentality of the tactic and those who carried it out and of the impact it had on the Allied war effort. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.

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