Kaura no totsugeki rappa : zerosen pairotto wa naze shinda ka / Nakano Fujio
カウラの突撃ラッパ : 零戦パイロットはなぜ死んだか / 中野不二男
- Bib ID:
- 1477519
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- Book
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- Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1984
- 東京 : 文藝春秋, 1984
- 308 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Notes:
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- Title translated into English: The bugle for the charge at Cowra: why did the Zero pilot die?
- Synopsis of content: This book is about a Japanese POW, Tadao Minami (possibly Hajime Toyoshima), a Zero-fighter pilot, who was believed to have led the mass breakout at Cowra by sounding a bugle for the charge on 5 August 1944. The author doubts many Japanese and non-Japanese explanations of the breakout as a ‘banzai attack’ by Japanese Imperial soldiers who preferred to die for the Emperor rather than to live with the shame of being a POW. According to the author, describing the breakout as a riot in search of death with honor, is too stereotypical a view. There are few books about the Cowra breakout by Japanese authors. Thus this text gives a useful Japanese perspective about the breakout.
- Subject:
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- Toyoshima, Hajime, 1920-1944
- Japan. Kaigun. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōkūtai -- Biography
- Air pilots -- Japan -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian
- Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography
- Prisoners of war -- New South Wales -- Cowra -- Biography
- Cowra (N.S.W.) -- History
- 豊島一, 1920-1944
- Japan. 海軍. 神風特別航空隊 -- Biography
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