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"A compelling book…Mr. Spurr bases his narrative on extensive interviews with survivors from both sides." --The New York Times Book Review.
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The only book to dramatise day by day, from both the Japanese and Allied points of view, the events surrounding this tragic, historic last mission of the biggest battleship ever built in the history of naval warfare, the Yamato, in the waters off Japan during the final days of World War II. Russell Spurr was the Far East Correspondent for The Daily Express.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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HIJMS Yamato was - and will now forever be, the largest Battleship ever built. It will also forever remain a supreme curiosity that Japan - the one country which had the foresight to recognise how air power and aircraft carriers were the sea-going naval might of the future, should insist on building 2 Yamato class Battleships when their construction almost bankrupted the nation to the extent that their building even deprived the country's fishermen of their nets.
Nevertheless this magnificent vessel of death, doom and destruction went into service at a time when the Imperial Japanese Navy could do no wrong. Prior to WW2 Japan broke the terms of the peace treaties by preparing for their eventual complete domination of the Pacific region. The building of Truk Lagoon being one example. Then, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour those plans were put into effect with devastating results. In June 1942, however, they failed to take Midway Atoll and from then on it was all downhill. Three years later, the largest Battleship ever to have been built was sent on a final mission from which she never returned.
In "A Glorious Way to Die" Russell Spurr gives an account of this great ship from beginning to tragic end. It is a complete account - as befits one of the world's greatest ships.
Perhaps the Yamato will prove to be the last great ship to be discovered by the great Bob Ballard.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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A thoroughly well researched account of the little known demise of the mightiest battleship ever constructed. The IJN Yamato dissapeared into naval folklore, even as she sank little was known about her. This book recounts the final kamikaze mission of this giant and the events surrounding it from both sides. A fascinating account of life at sea, the pacific war and how the Japanese fought to the bitter end. A cracking read.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This account certainly deserves five stars, no question about it. Spurr presents an excellent and very readable account of the last sailing of the Yamato on it's suicide mission to Okinawa. The author switches back and forth between the American side and the Japanese side, and, because of this, presents two sides of the same event. And, when reading both sides, the reader gets the impression that the author has done one heck of a job of research. The American characters, and especially the Japanese characters, come alive as real people, in real situations, in real action. Spurr has done an excellent job in both research and presentation; the book is exciting and hard to put down once you start reading. I was also impressed with the clarity of maps and diagrams, which, in most books of this period, are so small and blurry they are impossible to read. A great battleship. A great story.
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Yamato lived
I had studied the World War 2 battleships, mainly British, but American as well. This led inexorably to an even greater abiding interest in submarines. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Inquisio
An excellent account
The is an excellent account of the last voyage of the world's largest battleship, the incredible Yamato. Read more
Published on 18 April 2010 by Michael W. Perry
Well researched, powerful and moving
This is a truly gripping read that provokes so much thought.
Along with Mitsuru Yoshida's journal, this is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand how/why the Japanese... Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2004 by M. Negishi
A Good Moving Account of the Final Mission of the Yamato
This was a very decent and well researched account of the final mission of the Japanese Battleship 'Yamato'. Read more
Published on 4 May 1999
One of the best Yamato books that I have ever read!
I am trying to read all the books published that are written about, or contain material on, the Yamato-class "super-battleships" of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 1999
You want to know about the "Yamato".....
Wonderful. This great book is an exciting account of the Yamato's final mission. Incredibly readable and detailed, Spurr combines some of the best traditions of naval history into... Read more
Published on 28 April 1998
A superb book that I shall read over again, and again.
I rather enjoyed this book. It gave me a sense of really being there. I wish that other books were written this way. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 1998
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