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100 1 $aKakehashi, Kumiko,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2006022605
240 10 $aChiruzo kanashiki.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007051038
245 10 $aSo sad to fall in battle :$ban account of war /$cKumiko Kakehashi.
250 $aPresidio Press hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBallantine Books,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a211 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$bfacsimiles, illustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aTranslation of: Chiruzo kanashiki.
500 $a"Based on General Tadamichi Kurayashi's letters from Iwo Jima."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [210]-211).
520 1 $a"The Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times as the subject of countless books and motion pictures. So Sad to Fall in Battle shows us the struggle through the eyes of Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi, one of the most fascinating and least-known figures of World War II." "As author Kumiko Kakehashi demonstrates, Kuribayashi was far from the stereotypical fanatic Japanese warrior. Unique among his country's officers, he refused to risk his men's lives in suicidal banzai attacks, instead creating a defensive, insurgent style of combat that eventually became the Japanese standard. On Iwo Jima he eschewed the special treatment due him as an officer, instead enduring the same difficult conditions as his troops, and personally walked every inch of the island to plan the positions of thousands of underground bunkers and tunnels. The very flagpole shown in the renowned photograph was a pipe from a complex water-collection system the general himself engineered." "After thirty-six cataclysmic days on Iwo Jima, Kuribayashi's troops were responsible for the deaths of a third of all U.S. Marines killed during the entire four-year Pacific conflict, making him, in the end, America's most feared - and respected - foe. Ironically, it was Kuribayashi's own memories of his military training in American in the 1920s, and his admiration for the country's rich, gregarious, and self-reliant people, that made him fear ever facing them in combat - a fear that some suspect prompted his superiors to send him to Iwo Jima, where he met his fate." "Along with the words of his son and daughter, which offer unique insight into the private man, Kuribayashi's own letters, cited extensively in this book, paint a portrait of the circumstances that shaped him."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aKuribayashi, Tadamichi,$d1890 or 1891-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007019980
600 10 $aKuribayashi, Tadamichi,$d1890 or 1891-1945$vCorrespondence.
610 10 $aJapan.$bRikugun$xOfficers$vBiography.
650 0 $aIwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069136
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