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At War with the Wind : The Epic Struggle with Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers, Paperback / softback Book

At War with the Wind : The Epic Struggle with Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers Paperback / softback

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In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific.

To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as 'suiciders'; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze.

Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes.

Acclaimed author David Sears draws on personal interviews and unprecedented research to create a narrative of war that is stunning in its vividness and unforgettable in its revelations.

This is the candid story of a war within a war - a relentless series of furious and violent engagements pitting men determined to die against men determined to live.

Its echoes resonate hauntingly at a time of global conflict, especially when suicide as a weapon remains a perpl

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