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Sto caricando le informazioni... Blossoms In The Wind: Human Legacies Of The Kamikaze (edizione 2014)di M. G. Sheftall
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A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots of World War II--as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one's life to defend the homeland. Now, with the war all but lost, thousands of these determined warriors were hastily trained in the basics of piloting an airplane, then sent out in waves to crash into enemy warships, suicide attacks that killed altogether some seven thousand American sailors. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle and lived? In the wake of 9/11, ethnographer M. G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the cloistered community of Japan's last remaining kamikaze survivors. As an American fluent in Japanese, Sheftall was the only westerner to ever sit face-to-face with these men and hear their stories. The result is a fascinating journey into the lives, indoctrination, and mindsets of the kamikaze, through the eyes of participants who are now lost to time. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I was afraid initially that some of this work was going to assume to much, and I think in the beginning some of his portrayals show that the author is writing into some of the characters more than he could know about their inner thoughts and attitudes of some of the people. Several people died before the author began writing so not comfortable with his deeply personal relation of their experience, motives, or thoughts.
If you are interested in getting into the heads of the people who volunteered for Air or Naval kamikaze duty the mini biographies in this book are the best way I've run across to get there.
The author points out that the surviving kamikaze volunteers veterans associations push a white washed version of the war to the younger generation of Japanese. One where they blame accounts of torture or war crimes on propganda and the lies of enimies. Many of these piolots were probably never around POWs like other members of the Japanese armed forces. But there are to many eye-witness acounts and evidence to excuse their white washing. The author notes it and does not point out this version of "correct" history is wrong though he stops short of agreeing with it. (