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Kamikaze Diaries Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
by Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0226619508
- ISBN 13
- 9780226619507
- Seller
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. 0226619508 . B&W Photographs; 9 X 6.20 X 1.10 inches; xviii, 227 pages; Hard cover is red with silver lettering on spine. Gift inscription on half title page. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. DJ has light shelf wear; in a mylar cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs. "This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the 'tokkotai' and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war... Clearly and eloquently speak otherwise [not fanatics, sic]. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer for this desperate military operation". Notes; References; Index. .
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- Pegasusbooks.biz
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7509
- Title
- Kamikaze Diaries Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
- Author
- Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Format/Binding
- First Printing; Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0226619508
- ISBN 13
- 9780226619507
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- 0226619508, Japan;, Japanese History;, World War 2;, World War II;, Soldiers;, Cultural Anthropology;, Cultural History;, Diaries;, Correspondence;
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