God's Samurai
Title | God's Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine V. Dillon |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | 542 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1597973580 |
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 touring the world as an evangelist. His tale is an informative, personal look at the war "from the other side."
The King of the Gods
Title | The King of the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Xiao Ding |
Publisher | Devneybooks |
Total Pages | 1434 |
Release | |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1304487466 |
In the nine deep hell of the underworld, a purple demon moon with a faint brilliance hangs high above the cloudy sky full of blood. The lavender moonlight shines on the spirit of the nine ghosts, but it doesn't feel a little gentle at all. Instead, it is a burst of deep cold that makes the soul tremble.
Traditional Japanese Literature
Title | Traditional Japanese Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Haruo Shirane |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 601 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Japanese literature |
ISBN | 0231157304 |
Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as well as works and genres previously ignored by scholars and unknown to general readers.
Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods
Title | Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Thal |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 425 |
Release | 2005-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226794210 |
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The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai
Title | The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Lazar |
Publisher | Tinder Press |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2012-07-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0755389271 |
I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained in the ancient warrior arts of the samurai. But it is through the power of storytelling that she learns to fight her fate, twisting her life onto a path even she could not have imagined...
Kyoto Samurai Story
Title | Kyoto Samurai Story PDF eBook |
Author | Kayoko Kuwahara |
Publisher | Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011-11-04 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1434986926 |
The First Heroes
Title | The First Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Nelson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 2003-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1440650802 |
Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.