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Title: Samurai by Saburo Sakai, Caidin, Saito ISBN: 0-553-24664-X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The single best book of Japanese WW2 aviation
Comment: In the Naval Air Museum bookstore when I was 14, the kindly sales rep (a retired F4F Wildcat pilot) recommended this book to me. I practically memorized it. This is the inspiring story of Saburo Sakai, one of the few Japanese pilots to survive the entire war. Highly readable, gripping, informative, and pretty accurate, although as an Imperial Japanese NAVY pilot, Sakai is a bit too hard on his Army counterparts. But any serious student of the Pacific Theater simply must read this. Take it from me-- I've been into WW2 history all my literate life, and Samurai! is one of the unforgettable highlights.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Story of a Japanese Fighter Ace
Comment: This book is a must for any history buff or anyone interested in what the "other side" of World War II was like. This work chronicles the career of Saburo Sakai and his many air battles throughout World War II. His words debunk many myths about Japanese pilots (he even admits to turning back from a suicide mission) and gives one a personal feel to the historical events that unfolded around him. One can also plot the technological climb of aircraft as Sakai describes how adversaries steadily got better and better. This book would even be good reading for "peaceniks" who think development of new aircraft and weapons are a waste of money. They will see through Sakai's work how one superior fighter plane (the Zero) was able to command the skies in the Pacific war for several years until better aircraft were turned out by the U.S. In the future, the U.S. may not be so lucky. This is a superior book and is one of the best written about World War II.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another perspective
Comment: This book did a wonderful job of portrying the war from the Japanese perspective, and really gave me an insight into the mind of the "enemy". Sakai proves that he is indeed human, but not in a way that many westerners readily understand. It was an eye opener for me for sure.
Have to say that Sakai has to be one of the toughest SOBs in the world, flying back to base with wounds that would have killed most people, and landing safely!!!
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Title: Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story by Mitsuo Fuchida, Masatake Okumiya, Thomas B. Buell, Clarke H. Kawakami, Roger Pineau, Raymond A. Spruance ISBN: 1557504288 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Zero by Masatake Okumiya, Jiro Horikoshi, Martin Caidin ISBN: 0743444914 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Thunderbolt: The P-47 (Military History (Ibooks)) by Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin ISBN: 0743423976 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud ISBN: 0813338697 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (Bluejacket Books) by Hiroo Onoda, Charles S. Terry ISBN: 1557506639 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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