Research Catalog

Title

The sacred warriors : Japan's suicide legions / Denis Warner and Peggy Warner with Sadao Seno.

Author

Warner, Denis, 1917-2012.

Publication

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Warner, Peggy.
• Senoo, Sadao, 1925-2010.

Description

xii, 370 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Imperial Japan, in WWII, had become a shogunate dominated by the ancient samurai code of honor--that it is better to die than surrender. Vice Admiral Ugaki's fanatical suicide squad known as the "Divine Wind" would stave off defeat by giving even their lives. We also read about Admiral Onishi, a drinker and a gambler, and Lieutenant Seki obedient and loyal but tormented. Author, Warner, was a war correspondent aboard a ship that suffered 2 Kamidaze onslaughts and Commander Sadao Seno sub commander, vividly bring this story to life. We read here of a manned torpedo on its path to destruction, for the glory of Japan. Hear interviews from both sides of the conflict along with the impact and horror of attacks including chemical and biological weapons.

Subject

• Japan. Kaigun. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai > History
• Japan. Kaigun. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai
• Japan. Kaigun. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kogekitai
• 1912-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Ocean
• Suicide > Japan > Psychological aspects
• Military campaigns
• Military operations, Aerial > Japanese
• Military operations, Naval > Japanese
• Military readiness
• Suicide > Psychological aspects
• Kamikaze
• Seekrieg
• Luftkrieg
• Suicide > Japan > Psychological aspects
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Ocean
• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, Japanese
• Geschichte (1939-1945)
• Japan > Defenses
• Japan > History > 1912-1945
• Japan
• Pacific Ocean
• Japan > Defenses
• Japan > History > 1912-1945

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 340-349.

Contents

The breakwater of the broken bodies -- Out in the valley of hell -- The dead on Kudan Hill -- Making a miracle -- Enter the divine wind -- The St. Lo goes down -- ''All of you, come back dead" -- The young men depart -- A time to die -- "Die, die, all of you" -- Cherry blossoms and floating chrysanthemums -- The tide at sunset -- Blood on the new moon -- The battle of the pickets -- "Destroyer of men are good" -- Preparing for the holocaust -- Operation olympic -- The morning after.

ISBN

• 0442254180
• 9780442254186

LCCN

82006950

OCLC

• ocm08410278
• 8410278
• SCSB-60980

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library