Kamikaze
Subtitle: Japan's Suicide Samurai (Cmp)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cassell; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780304352005
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War; European history: Second World War; Military tactics; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe; Japan; Asia - Japan; Military - World War II; Aerial operations, Japanese; Japan.; Kaigun.; Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kåogekitai; Kamikaze airplanes; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: Not far from the Eikoku Taishikan (British embassy) and the Kyujo (Imperial Palace) in Tokyo, is the Yasukuni-jinja on Kudan hill, a place of tranquillity and intense national devotion usually overlooked by gaijin (foreign) tourists.