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Book
Title:
Lightning strike : the secret mission to kill Admiral Yamamoto and avenge Pearl Harbor
Other title(s):
Secret mission to kill Admiral Yamamoto and avenge Pearl Harbor
ISBN:
9780312309060

9780312309077
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents:
Pilots three -- War -- Yamamoto -- C-in-C -- Running wild -- "They're Yanks!" -- Islands -- Raid -- Midway -- The quiet time -- Guadalcanal -- Cactus -- Jagdstaffel -- Bloody Ridge -- Battleships -- 2100 Banzai -- Homesick angels -- Patrol -- I-go -- Message -- Jackpot -- The opium den -- At all costs -- The fight -- The curse -- The report -- Picture day -- Traitors -- The perfect hero -- Tex and Rex -- The legend -- Showdown.
Summary:
"This is the story of the fighter mission that changed World War II. It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor -- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto -- and the courageous young American fliers who flew the million-to-one suicide mission that shot him down. Yamamoto was a cigar-smoking, poker-playing, English-speaking, Harvard-educated expert on America, and that intimate knowledge served him well as architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the next sixteen months, this military genius, beloved by the Japanese people, lived up to his prediction that he would run wild in the Pacific Ocean. He was unable, however, to deal the fatal blow needed to knock America out of the war, and the shaken United States began its march to victory on the bloody island of Guadalcanal. Donald A. Davis meticulously tracks Yamamoto's eventual rendezvous with death. After American code-breakers learned that the admiral would be vulnerable for a few hours, a desperate attempt was launched to bring him down. What was essentially a suicide mission fell to a handful of colorful and expendable U.S. Army pilots from Guadalcanal's battered 'Cactus Air Force' ... Davis paints unforgettable personal portraits of men in combat and unravels a military mystery that has been covered up at the highest levels of government since the end of the war."--From publisher's website.
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