
God's Samurai
by Katherine V. Dillon
"Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor"
Popularity
4.5 / 5
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Details
War:
World War II
Perspective:
Pilots
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
Yes
Region:
Pacific
Page Count:
542
Published Date:
2011
ISBN13:
9781597973588
Description
God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. A valuable record of major events, it is also the personal story of a man swept along by his times. Reared in the vanished culture of early twentieth-century Japan, war hero Fuchida returned home to become a simple farmer. After a scandalous love affair came his remarkable conversion to Christianity and years of touring the world as an evangelist. His tale is an informative, personal look at the war "from the other side."