By Katherine V. Dillon, Donald M. Goldstein, Gordon W. Prange

God's Samurai is the weird tale of Mitsuo Fuchida, the occupation aviator who led the assault on Pearl Harbor and took part in many of the fiercest battles of the Pacific battle. A worthy list of significant occasions, it's also the non-public tale of a guy swept alongside by way of his instances. Reared within the vanished tradition of early twentieth-century Japan, battle hero Fuchida again domestic to develop into an easy farmer. After a scandalous love affair got here his awesome conversion to Christianity and years of traveling the area as an evangelist. His story is an informative, own examine the battle "from the opposite side."

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These thoughts were only partially con soling, for after all fighting the poor Indians, compared with taking part in a real European war, was only like riding in when a paper-chase instead of in the Grand National. Still one must make the best one can of the opportunities of the age. enjoyed the riding-school thoroughly, and got on and off as well as most. My father arranged in my holi days, or vacations as it was now proper to call them, for me to go through an additional course of riding-school at Knightsbridge Barracks with the Royal Horse Guards.

Except in Fencing, in which I had won the Public School Championship, I had achieved no distinction. All my contemporaries and even younger boys' seemed in every way better adapted to the conditions of our little world. They were far better both at the games and at the lessons. not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race. I had been surprised on taking leave of Dr. Welldon to hear him I could see no founda predict, with a confidence for which It is tion, that I should be able to make my way all right.

After I had been hunted for twenty minutes and was rather short of breath, I decided to cross the bridge. Arrived at its centre consternation that the pursuers had divided I saw to my One stood at each end of the bridge 5 capture seemed certain. But in a flash there came across me a great project. The chine which the bridge spanned was full of their forces. Their slender tops reached to the level of the footway. 'Would it not/ I asked myself, 'be possible to young fir trees. ' I looked at it. I computed it, I medi tated.

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