A Glorious Way to Die (Paperback)

from dswaddell

As WW2 was drawing to a close the Yamato set sale on a one way mission to free Okinawa. A well written exploration of both the mindset and stratagey behind the kamikaze attacks at the end of WW2.

from ABVR

On April 29, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato left her anchorage in Kure harbor and headed for Okinawa, accompanied by a single light cruiser and eight destroyers. The official mission of "Special Attack Force 2"-raise as much hell as possible among the American invasion fleet, then beach the...

from Hiromatsuo

Russel Spurr's “A Glorious Way to Die” chronicles the final sortie of the Imperial Japanese Navy's pride, the battleship Yamato. Inter-weaved in this narrative are the concurrent events happening in the U.S. fleet that was assaulting Okinawa at the time, as well as the preparations and sorties of...