God's Samurai

Author: Katherine V. Dillon
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597973580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542

Book 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."

Bushido: a Modern Adaptation of the Ancient Code of the Samurai

Author: Mark Edward Cody
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468567128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Bushido: A Modern Adaptation of the Ancient Code of the Samurai attempts to address the violent nature of the human spirit and to harness and redirect that trait into a constructive force for the betterment of mankind. Bushido examines the metaphor of the Warrior as it appears in human culture both historically and in the stories, philosophies and religions of mankind, drawing heavily upon the stoic martial philosophy of Feudal Japan and on the Judeo-Christian principles which have shaped the West. It is the Author's hope that this work will convey a message of self-reliance, strength and peace that our world so desperately needs.

The Pillow Book Of The Flower Samurai

Author: Barbara Lazar
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 9780755389285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained in the ancient warrior arts of the samurai. But it is through the power of storytelling that she learns to fight her fate, twisting her life onto a path even she could not have imagined...

Occult Japan, Or, The Way of the Gods

Author: Percival Lowell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description

Kami-no-michi

Author: Hope Huntly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description

The First Heroes

Author: Craig Nelson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440650802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.

Samurai Rising

Author: Pamela S. Turner
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580895859
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality.

Isis

Author: Shawn James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781530804740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description
Samurai! When Isis stops an assassination attempt in the sauna of a gym, she gets up caught up in a mystery involving corporate espionage, a high-tech device, and a trio of female assassins skilled in the martial arts. Can the goddess next door solve the case?

The Smart Set

Author: George Jean Nathan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556

Book Description

The Samurai

Author: Stephen R. Turnbull
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410387
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Illustrated history of Japanese Samurai warfare.