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Acclaimed by Critics, Historians, and Military Leaders the World Over
Russell Spurr chronicles the April 1945 sortie of the superbattleship Yamato, dispatched from the Inland Sea without air cover to confront the American armada off Okinawa.
The narrative reconstructs the desperate mission from command bunkers in Tokyo to carrier decks in Task Force 58 and the crowded gun platforms of the Imperial flagship.
Japanese naval staff and American carrier airmen clash across the East China Sea as the book follows commanders, pilots, and teenage lookouts through the massive aerial assault.
- Pacific Theater: At the Tokuyama depot, fueling crews tapped tank bottoms with hand pumps to secretly provide 8,000 tons of oil for the run toward the Nansei Shoto.
- Evidence-Based: Drawing on wartime battle records, translated Japanese signals, and survivor interviews from both navies, the text documents the operation down to the minute.
- Against the Odds: Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher dispatched 386 carrier planes from Task Force 58 to intercept the surface force before American battle lines could close.
- Also by This Author: Enter the Dragon.
Acclaimed by Critics, Historians, and Military Leaders the World Over
Russell Spurr chronicles the April 1945 sortie of the superbattleship Yamato, dispatched from the Inland Sea without air cover to confront the American armada off Okinawa.
The narrative reconstructs the desperate mission from command bunkers in Tokyo to carrier decks in Task Force 58 and the crowded gun platforms of the Imperial flagship.
Japanese naval staff and American carrier airmen clash across the East China Sea as the book follows commanders, pilots, and teenage lookouts through the massive aerial assault.
- Pacific Theater: At the Tokuyama depot, fueling crews tapped tank bottoms with hand pumps to secretly provide 8,000 tons of oil for the run toward the Nansei Shoto.
- Evidence-Based: Drawing on wartime battle records, translated Japanese signals, and survivor interviews from both navies, the text documents the operation down to the minute.
- Against the Odds: Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher dispatched 386 carrier planes from Task Force 58 to intercept the surface force before American battle lines could close.
- Also by This Author: Enter the Dragon.
Russell Spurr was based in Hong Kong for more than 20 years as the China and Far East correspondent for the London Daily Express and ABC Radio Network, and the chief correspondent and deputy editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was one of the first Western correspondents to report from Peking after the establishment in 1949 of the People's Republic of China. During World War II Spurr was in the Royal Indian Navy, and served in motor gunboats through most of the Burma campaign. After the Japanese surrender, he was assigned to Kure, Japan, where he first viewed the vacant dock built for the Yamato and began to pursue the story of its demise. Spurr is also the author of the highly acclaimed Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781557049131 |
| ISBN-10: | 1557049130 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Spurr, Russell |
| Hersteller: | Newmarket |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 229 x 152 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Russell Spurr |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.10.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,6 kg |
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