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Synopsis
This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The author was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the Unsinkable Captain.
A hero to his countrymen, Capt. Hara exemplified the best in Japanese surface commanders: highly skilled, hard driving, and aggressive. Moreover, he maintained a code of honor worthy of his samurai grandfather, and, as readers of this book have come to appreciate, he was as free with praise for American courage and resourcefulness as he was critical of himself and his senior commanders.
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About the Author
Fred Saito translated and expanded the original manuscript, after spending more than eight hundred hours interviewing Captain Hara, to make the book as full and accurate an account as possible. Saito was a journalist with the Tokyo office of the Associated Press from 1948 to 1960 and later served on the staff of the Japan Broadcasting Company. He also translated Samurai!, the story of one of Japan s greatest fighter pilots by Saburo Sakai and Martin Caidin. Roger Pineau served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II. After the war, he became a member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Japan and later assisted Adm. Samuel Eliot Morison in preparing the authoritative History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. Pineau added the footnotes to Captain Hara s memoir, including the names of U.S. ships and commanders that engaged the captain s forces, and checked the accuracy of the battle accounts. He also assisted with the writing and fact checking of two other books by Japanese authors about the war, The Divine Wind and Midway.
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- PublisherAudible Studios on Brilliance Audio
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1511395931
- ISBN 13 9781511395939
- BindingMP3 CD
- LanguageEnglish
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