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I was a Kamikaze

Ryūji Nagatsuka (Author), Nina Rootes (Translator), Robert Leckie (Writer of introduction)
First person account of his experiences as a kamikaze pilot in Japan was a best seller when first published in France. Here, the author details an insider's experience an ardent patriot, vigorously affirming that he and his fellow pilots were neither coerced nor brainwashed into volunteering for kamikaze missions

Print Book, English, 1974
First American edition
Macmillan, New York, 1974