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  • Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

    Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida’s Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, an uncritical reliance upon which has tainted every previous Western account. It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle. Parshall and Tully examine the battle in detail and effortlessly place it within the context of the Imperial Navy’s doctrine and ... [Read More]
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 1574889230
    • ASIN: 1574889230
    • ISBN: 1574889230
    • Brand: Brand: Potomac Books Inc.
    • Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press

  • How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII

    In November 1921 the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. The conversion of battlecruisers into aircraft carriers after World War I required the consideration of issues including handling aircraft on the flight deck and the techniques of attacking enemy ships, and the evolution of carrier operations was ongoing when World War II broke out. With a focus on the conflict in the Pacific between the U.S. Navy and the imperial Japanese fleet, this title examines how aircraft carriers fought during World War II by first considering all the tools and building blocks of carrier operations, and then discussing the various battles that involved aircraft carriers to explore how carrier operations evolved during wa... [Read More]
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 1612006213
    • ASIN: 1612006213
    • ISBN: 1612006213
    • Manufacturer: Casemate

  • The Connoisseurs Book of Japanese Swords

    Recently Japanese swords have gained enormous popularity as art objects with collectors and enthusiasts around the world, but until now much of the most detailed information on the subject has been available only in Japanese. This comprehensive guide to the appreciation and appraisal of the blades of Japanese swords provides, at last, all the background that readers need to become true connoisseurs.The book is organized along historical lines for the sake of clarity and convenience, and its approach is always practical. Broad discussions of each tradition within the Gokaden focus on the features that distinguish specific schools and smiths-the various kinds of jihada, hamon, boshi, and hataraki favored in different periods and regions-making this an invaluable reference tool for all enthus... [Read More]
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 4770020716
    • UPC: 821818020710
    • ASIN: 4770020716
    • ISBN: 4770020716
    • Manufacturer: Kodansha USA

  • Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story (Bluejacket Books)

    This landmark study was first published in English by the Naval Institute in 1955 and was added to the Classics of Naval Literature series in 1992. Widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned that tide of war in the Pacific, the book has made a great impact on American readers over the years. Two Japanese naval aviators who participated in the operation provide an unsparing analysis of what caused Japan's staggering defeat.Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the first air strike on Pearl Harbor, commanded the Akagi carrier air group and later made a study of the battle at the Japanese Naval War College. Masatake Okumiya, one of Japan's first dive-bomber pilots, was aboard the light carrier Ryujo and later served as a staff officer in a carrier division. Armed wit... [Read More]
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 1557504288
    • ASIN: 1557504288
    • ISBN: 1557504288
    • Brand: Naval Institute Press
    • Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press

  • Magnum! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm : The Elimination of Iraq's Air Defence

    This book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war was like during that time. The pawns in the game, the ones that had to actually do the fighting and dying were the hundreds of thousands of men and women who left their homes and families to live for seemingly endless months in the vast, trackless desert while the world stage-play unfolded. To them, the war was deeply personal. At times, the war was scary; at other times, it was funny as hell. Usually, if you survive the former, it turns into the latter.
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 1844159078
    • ASIN: 1844159078
    • ISBN: 1844159078
    • Brand: Brand: Pen and Sword
    • Manufacturer: Pen and Sword Aviation

  • The Hero and His Elf Bride Open a Pizza Parlor in Another World (light novel)

    After a pizza delivery bike slammed right into me, I was sent flying into another world where a goddess had three options as to how I might be reborn. Apparently, though, some other guys got there before me and snapped up the sword-wielding and magic-hurling options, leaving me to...save the world with pizza?!? I never asked to be a high calorie hero!!
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 1975353250
    • ASIN: 1975353250
    • ISBN: 1975353250
    • Brand: Yen On
    • Manufacturer: Yen Press

  • The Buddha in the Attic

    Finalist for the 2011 National Book AwardJulie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird” —The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture brides’ nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first night... [Read More]
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 0307700003
    • ASIN: 0307700003
    • ISBN: 0307700003
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

    Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book, their empire-building created the world we know today. From the death of Tamerlane in 1405, to America's rise to world "hyperpower," to the resurgence of China and India as global economic powers, After Tamerlane is a grand historical narrative that offers a new perspective on the past, present, and future of empires.
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 1596916028
    • ASIN: 1596916028
    • ISBN: 1596916028
    • Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Press

  • Forged in Blood (Freehold Book 8)

    NEW STORIES SET IN MICHAEL Z. WILLIAMSON'S FREEHOLD SERIES WARRIORS AND SOLDIERS TIED TOGETHER THROUGHOUT TIME AND SPACE.From the distant past to the far future, those who carry the sword rack up commendations for bravery. They are men and women who, like the swords they carry, have been forged in blood. These are their stories.In medieval Japan, a surly ronin is called upon to defend a village against a thieving tax collector who soon finds out it's not wise to anger an old, tired man. In the ugliest fighting in the Pacific Theater, an American sergeant and a Japanese lieutenant must face each other, and themselves. A former US Marine chooses sides with outnumbered Indonesian refugees against an invading army from Java. When her lover is stolen by death, a sergeant fighting on a far-flung... [Read More]
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: B074Q1VF1S
    • ASIN: B074Q1VF1S
    • Manufacturer: Baen Books

  • The Craft of the Japanese Sword

    Well over a thousand years old, the tradition of swordmaking in Japan is one of the most highly regarded metal crafts in the world. When all sword manufacture was prohibited in Japan for seven years after World War II, the age-old techniques were in danger of being lost forever. Today, in the hands of a new generation of practitioners, the craft is making a startling comeback. Connoisseurs say that the swords being produced now are the equal of anything made in Japan in the past few hundred years.This book takes the reader into the workshops of four of Japan's leading sword craftsmen. Each craftsman has a different role in the manufacture of a blade. Yoshindo Yoshihara, the swordsmith, begins with raw steel made in a traditional charcoal-fueled smelter and refines it by folding and forging... [Read More]
    Best Japanese Swords In The World

    • ASIN: 1568364318
    • ASIN: 1568364318
    • ISBN: 9781568364315
    • Manufacturer: Kodansha International

  • Shattered Sword : The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

    Told from the Japanese perspective, using largely Japanese sources, this volume represents the first substantive contribution to the West's understanding of Midway in more than a
    Best Japanese Swords In The World
    Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida’s Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, an uncritical reliance upon which has tainted every previous Western account. It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation

    • UPC: 4025498
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Japanese Swords: The Katana and Gunto in Medieval and Modern Japanese Warfare - eBook

    The sword, a treasured combat arm and symbol of identity, status, and courage has held a special place in most countries of the world. The samurai, however, may have received unparalleled attention in the history of the sword. This brief introduction to medieval Japan demonstrates how the politically strong samurai shaped the view one held of battle. Following the abolishment of the samurai class, the Meiji Restoration, and the opening of Japan to the West in the nineteenth century, Japan was anxious to move ahead with modern military equipment and the building of a national army. Few traditional swords were
    Best Japanese Swords In The World
    Japanese Swords: The Katana and Gunto in Medieval and Modern Japanese Warfare - eBook

    • UPC: 553096157

  • Japanese Infantryman 1937–45 : Sword of the Empire

    9781841768182
    Best Japanese Swords In The World
    This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS of World War II (1939-1945), an enigma to Westerners. Brutal in its treatment of prisoners as well as the inhabitants of the areas that it conquered, the Imperial Japanese Army also had exacting standards for its own men - strict codes of honor compelled Japanese soldiers to fight to the death against the more technologically advanced Allies. Identifying the ways in which the Japanese soldier differed from his Western counterpart, the author explores concepts such as Bushido, Seppuku, Shiki and Hakko Ichi-u

    • UPC: 25936660

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    Best Japanese Swords In The World
    Ramen Lovers Club Ramen Party- Traditional Japanese Food The World Best Delicious Noodle: Lined Journal - Ramen Lovers Club Cute Japanese Noodles

    • UPC: 670853572

  • Ramen Lovers Club Ramen Party- Traditional Japanese Food The World Best Delicious Noodle: Dot Grid Journal - Ramen Lovers Club Cute Japanese Noodles F Paperback

    Ramen Lovers Club Ramen Party- Traditional Japanese Food The World Best Delicious Noodle: Dot Grid Journal - Ramen Lovers Club Cute Japanese Noodles F Height : 0.29 In Length : 9.00 In Width : 6.00 In Weight : 0.42
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    • UPC: 302891061

  • 9 Greastest Samurai Swords Ever Made

    From the katana to the tachi, the legendary to the iunbelievably real, these are 8 of the greatest samurai swords to pass their blades through history. 8. Juzumaru: The Sword to Ward off Evil One ...
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    The DEADLIEST Swords in The World: CURSED Samurai Muramasa Blades

    The Muramasa blades were known in ancient Japan to not only be deadly to opponents, but also to the owners themselves. Did you know you have a THIRD eye?! Find out more: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
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    5 Most Famous Swords In History

    Some of the most iconic, famous and legendary swords from throughout our history. Please subscribe to support more videos! Music: www.bensound.com
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