{"product_id":"blossoms-in-the-wind-human-legacies-of-the-kamikaze-9780593472316","title":"Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze","description":"\u003cb\u003eBack with Caliber after more than a decade out of print, 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dutton Caliber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593472316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496","brand":"M. G. Sheftall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769668571317,"sku":"9780593472316","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_da245ee7-40e0-4c14-8359-153d105d9b91.jpg?v=1678834413","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blossoms-in-the-wind-human-legacies-of-the-kamikaze-9780593472316","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}