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9780313398643 | 1 edition (Praeger Pub Text, January 9, 2013), cover price $63.00
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9781849083539 | Osprey Pub Co, June 21, 2011, cover price $17.95
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9788389450128 | Mushroom Model Pubns, May 19, 2009, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Japanese Special Attack (Kamikaze) aircraft are well know, but not well described in literature.
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9780199276998 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 26, 2005, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: 'Suicide attacks are a defining act of political violence and an extraordinary social phenomenon.
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9780199297979 | Exp upd edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 23, 2006), cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence.
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9780451214874 | Nal Caliber, July 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A study drawing on firsthand interviews with the few remaining survivors of Japan's kamikaze corps reveals the lives, attitudes, beliefs, and mindsets of former kamikaze pilots who never completed their suicidal missions.
Product Description: Why did Japan resort to Kamikaze attacks from air and sea? Was it a long-standing policy founded in history or a last-ditch action by a nation facing defeat? How were the recruits found and trained? Why were trainers held back from missions? Did the tactic bring any success? How were the raids reported at home and by the enemy? What were the views of those who encountered such attacks? This volume deals with all these questions...read more
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9781898799818 | Rigel, July 31, 2004, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Why did Japan resort to Kamikaze attacks from air and sea?
9781854093677 | Arms & Armour, May 1, 1998, cover price $27.95
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9780304352005 | Cassell, May 1, 2000, cover price $9.95
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9780226620916 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honored Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honor to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226620909 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war?
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9781840650822 | Salamander Books Ltd, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95
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9780870119095 | Kodansha Amer Inc, May 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Interviews with surviving kamikaze pilots outline the mindset of these volunteers and the details of the program, covering the construction of the planes, the particulars of the strategy, and the role of the emperor
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9780440204985 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1990), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Interviews with surviving kamikaze pilots outline the mindset of these volunteers and the details of the program, covering the construction of the planes, the particulars of the strategy, and the role of the emperor
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