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Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima
R D Eldridge
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Description for Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima
Hardcover. Fighting Spirit is essential reading for anyone interested in the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Pacific War. Major Horie was one of only four Japanese field grade officers directly associated with the Battle of Iwo Jima who survived and the only officer known to have left memoirs. Num Pages: 224 pages, photo section. BIC Classification: BM; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Fighting Spirit is essential reading for anyone interested in the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Pacific War. Major Horie was one of only four Japanese field grade officers directly associated with the Battle of Iwo Jima who survived and the only officer known to have left memoirs. Having served as a liaison officer with the Navy, Major Horie described in detail the respective positions, ideas and assumptions that both the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy had when executing the Pacific War, the personalities involved, and the challenges they faced. He was a specialist in logistics and headed ... Read more
Fighting Spirit is essential reading for anyone interested in the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Pacific War. Major Horie was one of only four Japanese field grade officers directly associated with the Battle of Iwo Jima who survived and the only officer known to have left memoirs. Having served as a liaison officer with the Navy, Major Horie described in detail the respective positions, ideas and assumptions that both the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy had when executing the Pacific War, the personalities involved, and the challenges they faced. He was a specialist in logistics and headed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781591148562
SKU
V9781591148562
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About R D Eldridge
Robert D. Eldridge is currently the deputy assistant chief of staff, G-5, Marine Corps Bases Japan, and was a tenured associate professor at the School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, in Osaka, Japan, from 2001-2009. He earned his Ph.D. in Japanese political and diplomatic history at Kobe University. He lives in Kawanishi City, Hyogo, Japan. Charles Tatum ... Read more
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