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T. Martin Bennett

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Wounded Tiger (2014) 56 copie

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Pearl Harbor from a Japanese pilot’s perspective
 
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jamespurcell | 1 altra recensione | Dec 3, 2023 |
This telling of World War II happenings is expertly interwoven by an author who makes the read worth every minute of your time spent with him. T. Martin Bennett interweaves some very dark moments of 20th Century history into a masterful non-fiction novel. It is a story that Bennett originally scripted as a screenplay. We will have to wait for that. The motion picture is still envisioned by the author vision as a future monumental event.

This book will mesmerize. The central character to the tome of nearly 600 pages is Japanese pilot Mitsuo Fuchida. He led the Pearl Harbor attack which shocked the world, drawing the United States into world conflict. Unless you have closely followed that war you most likely know little about Fuchida. By the end of the book you will be intimately acquainted with him.

You will be introduced to a group of missionaries in the Philippines who were butchered by the Japanese because of their Christianity. They were Baptists led by a man named Jimmy Covell. He had served on a mission to Japan. As things were turning sour on the world front, Covell and his group fled to a place in the Philippines now known as Hopevalle. The missionaries were bayoneted without mercy and became known as the Hopevalle martyrs. Those killings could have easily stood as an independent story had the author so chosen.

Before the massacre, one of Jimmy’s children left her mother and father to pursue a religious studies education at Kazuo College in the state of New York. Peggy Covell was almost finished with that educational pursuit when word came to her of the martyrdom of her parents. Tears for family were shed over a letter bearing the horrible news that came from the Army Service Forces in Washington, D.C. Later she worked at a prison camp assisting Japanese prisoners of war. One of the prisoners was an old friend of Fuchida, Kazuo Kanegasaki. He later told Fuchida of favorable impressions he had after an encounter with a most kind American daughter of the missionaries who had been slaughtered.

A fellow named Jake DeShazner plays a major part in the book. Jacob was part of the United States Army Air Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The Oregon boy was incensed, the attack sparking immediate resoluteness to become engaged in revenge. Fight he did. He served as a bombardier with Doolittle’s Raiders under the famous Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. The Raiders were composed of a very special group of men formed with the express purpose of attacking Japan. After he was forced to parachute into enemy hands, DeShazner was captured in China by the Japanese. He was held as a prisoner of war there. During much of his captivity, he was in grave danger. But he survived to become a missionary to Japan.

It will be difficult to grasp that what happens towards the end of this story really occurred. The daughter of a missionary victimized by barbaric butchery somehow finds it in her heart to befriend enemy soldiers who tore her whole world apart. A guy like Jake who was hell-bent on revenge against the Japanese ultimately is so filled with Christian love after reading the Bible as a prisoner of war that he decides to become a missionary. The villain Fuchida turns out not to be such a villain as you thought. It’s a story with a nice ending. Bennett deserves high praise for Wounded Tiger: A True Story.
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JamesBanzer | 1 altra recensione | Mar 6, 2019 |

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