epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-25 | Author:George Weller

March 1 The bush near us has taken an awful beating in the past weeks—looks as though the whole Japanese army has been hunting us. Had a good night’s sleep ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights. * The instructors at ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:John Geoghegan [Geoghegan, John]

* According to some accounts, it took almost twice as long to prep the third Seiran. † Robert Mikesh says seven minutes were required to launch each of the first ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1996-07-01 | Author:Robert Leckie [Leckie, Robert]

Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Laurence Rees [LAURENCE REES]

Above A Japanese officer brandishing a sword (right) leads his soldiers in an attack on the Chinese in November 1941. This bloody, racist war against the Chinese would continue in ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Scott Wilson

THE CONCEPT OF THE FIVE RINGS IN ESOTERIC BUDDHISM Traveling the backroads of Japan or wandering through the temple precincts there, one often finds five-tiered stone monuments called stupas. These ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Natsume Soseki

PART III SENSEI’S TESTAMENT CHAPTER 55 I have had two or three letters from you this summer. I seem to remember that in the second or third you asked my ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Gold, Hal [Gold, Hal]

Soviet demands that Emperor Hirohito face trial for war crimes caused the Japanese great distress, as this recently (1995) released note from the Foreign Ministry to SCAP shows. Pingfang's double ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-21 | Author:Leckie, Robert [Leckie, Robert]

A convoy had left Pearl Harbor on that date and it was the Northern Force headed for Roi-Namur. It carried the men of the Fourth Marine Division. They had sailed ...

mobi |eng | 1995-08-10 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld

“Hello, uh, this is Takehiro Hashimoto speaking, may I please speak with Keiko Nakagami?” “That is me.” “Uh. Thank you very much for coming to lunch with my family and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:Max Hastings

The sea below was black and the lower bases of the clouds a dark, dull gray. Then, almost as if in response to a drum roll, there was an explosion ...

mobi, epub | | 1996-07-01 | Author:Robert Leckie

Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:James Brady

PART THREE HOME FRONT Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Colonel Merritt A. Edson, Platoon Sergeant Mitchell Paige, and Sergeant John Basilone after receiving their Congressional Medals of Honor at Camp ...

mobi |eng | 2001-03-28 | Author:Kerr

Zoning – the political and social science of making the most efficient use of different types of land – is a crucial skill that Japan's bureaucrats have failed to master. ...