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02976aam a2200409 i 4500 001 0C0A66C42C4311EE906218702AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230727010046 008 230726t20232005nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0593472314 020 $a 9780593472316 035 $a (OCoLC)1330404630 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d PX0 $d GK8 $d OCLCA $d SILO 043 $a p------ $a p------ 082 04 $a 940.5426 084 $a 940.5426 $b SHE 100 1 $a Sheftall, M. G. $q (Mordecai G.), $e author. 245 10 $a Blossoms in the wind $h [Book] : $b human legacies of the Kamikaze / $c M.G. Sheftall. 264 1 $a New York : $b Dutton Caliber, $c [2023]. 300 $a x, 478 pages ; $c 24 cm. 365 $a 01 $b 37.00 500 $a "Previously published as an NAL Caliber hardcover in 2005 and trade paperback in 2006."--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-469) and index. 505 0 $a Part One. A time for heroes -- Part Two. All boys dream of flying -- Part Three. The ultimate smart bomb -- Part Four. A soldier's scrapbook -- Part Five. Nadeshiko -- Part Six. Bride doll -- Part Seven. Doctor Hiroshima -- Part Eight. Torpedomen in twilight. 520 $a A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots of World War II--as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one's life to defend the homeland. Now, with the war all but lost, thousands of these determined warriors were hastily trained in the basics of piloting an airplane, then sent out in waves to crash into enemy warships, suicide attacks that killed altogether some seven thousand American sailors. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle and lived? In the wake of 9/11, ethnographer M. G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the cloistered community of Japan's last remaining kamikaze survivors. As an American fluent in Japanese, Sheftall was the only westerner to ever sit face-to-face with these men and hear their stories. The result is a fascinating journey into the lives, indoctrination, and mindsets of the kamikaze, through the eyes of participants who are now lost to time. 610 10 $a Japan. $b Kamikaze Tokubetsu KoÌgekitai. $b Kamikaze Tokubetsu KoÌgekitai. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, Japanese. 650 0 $a Kamikaze airplanes. 650 0 $a Kamikaze pilots. 650 0 $a Suicide $z Japan $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Pacific Ocean. 650 0 $a Kamikaze pilots $z Japan. 651 0 $a Japan $x History, Military. 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230727012239.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0C0A66C42C4311EE906218702AECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search