Heading: (World War II - Pearl Harbor Attack)
Author:
Title: Special Attack Flotilla: Bushido in the War of Greater East Asia. - Japanese midget subs in the attack on Pearl Harbor
Place Published: Tokyo
Publisher:Japan Times Press
Date Published: 1942
Description: [x], 6, [1] pp. Illustrations from photographs. 29.5x21 cm (11¾x8¼"), original silver-lettered blue cloth.Rare volume of Japanese propaganda, curiously published in English at the height of the battle for the Pacific in World War II. A tribute to the nine Japanese sailors who launched an undersea attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941 in a "Special Attack Flotilla" of two-man "midget" submarines. None of them returned alive. The sailors were treated as heroes and the text is nothing short of worshipful of the "Hero Gods". Includes a fantastic account of the attack, biographies of each of the crew members and skippers, the text of their final letters to their families, an interview of the Japanese Chief of the Naval Press Section of the Imperial Headquarters by Japanese novelist Eiji Yoshikawa and more. The closing text advises: "The end of the War of Greater East Asia is still far off. In order to gain a final victory, the present total war must be fought with unflagging energy to a finish, and for this purpose the nation must form an even firmer resolution to gain complete mastery of all seas." Only the third copy we have encountered.

Light wear to cloth, joints splitting; front hinges cracked separating from spine strip, faint foxing; very good.