God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor

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Author: Katherine V. Dillon

ISBN-10: 1574886959

ISBN-13: 9781574886955

Category: Asian Armed Forces - Biography

God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. A valuable record of major events, it is also the personal story of a man swept along by his times. Reared in the vanished culture of early twentieth-century Japan, war hero Fuchida returned home to become a simple farmer. After a scandalous love affair came his remarkable conversion to Christianity and years of...

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The unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. Booknews The story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career naval aviator who led the air attack on Pearl Harbor, served through the entire war, was in Hiroshima the day before and the day after the atomic bombing, and was even aboard the Missouri at the surrender ceremonies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

\ From the Publisher“Exciting, moving, and spiritually rewarding.” \ “Engrossing . . . intriguing . . . arresting.”\ “A window on the Japanese psyche and the experience of WWII.”\ “A dramatic and historically interesting life.”\ \ \ \ \ \ BooknewsThe story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career naval aviator who led the air attack on Pearl Harbor, served through the entire war, was in Hiroshima the day before and the day after the atomic bombing, and was even aboard the Missouri at the surrender ceremonies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \