Название: Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
Автор: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226619516
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 246
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives.” So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II.