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The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Japanese Navy (Paperback)

by Hiroyuki Agawa (Author), John Bester (Translator) "I have by me as I write a faded group photograph ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd; New edition edition (1 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 4770025394
  • ISBN-13: 978-4770025395
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.2 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars An affectionate Portrait, 5 Aug 1999
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This review is from: The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy (Paperback)
This biography almost reads like a novel. The author has drawn a very affectionate portrait of the man (sometimes overly so), to the degree that you wonder if he had any faults at all. In this context, I think the reading of alternative biographies of the man is essential (finding them written in English is difficult though!). I also found the lack of chronology to be a bit distracting. Overall however, it gives a very revealling insight into an undoubtedly major personality.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous Insight!, 16 Oct 1998
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Agawa gives great insight into the private life of Yamamoto. We see that he was an intellectual, romamtic, a gambling addict, a patriot, and most importantly, a military man who was agaist the junta that was running Japan prior to and during the war.

The deatails of the military command can get a little slow at times, but this is only testimony to the author's command of the subject. This is a must read for any armchair historian, as well as anyone interested in a facsinating biography. I could not put it down, and I'm no WWII or military buff.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Yamamoto Genius or not.................., 8 May 2008
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Admiral Isoruko Yamamoto is one of the enigmas of the Second World War.He is variously described as "brilliant" and "the best brain in the Japanese Navy" going by both descriptions I can see how they lost the war. Granted he had little option but to launch a surpise attack and try to neutralise the American Pacific Fleet,but to attack them in a superbly equipped Naval dockyard where any casuatlites could be salvaged & put back into action,as indeed happened? Surely it would have been far better to lure them away from Pearl Harbour & sink them in the open sea? Riskier,granted but surely safer in the long run. His handling of the Japanese Fleet at Midway was another disaster where the plan was overly complex keeping his battlefleet too far away from his carrier group thus effectively neutralising both. Whilst sitting in no man's land he could offer no help when it was most desperately needed. How many carriers would he have lost had his battleships been sailing in consort at Midway? His eventual demise was, again,typical of the man.Not appeciating that the Americans were reading the Japanese codes, he set out on a well publicized tour of his far flung bases,giving his enemies a detailed time table, which enabled them to shoot his plane to bits.It,s easy to judge with hindsight but it seems to me that Yamamoto,like Montgomery, was vastly overrated as a strategist.
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