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 King of the Gods

Author: Xiao Ding
Publisher: Devneybooks
ISBN: 1304487466
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1434

Book Description
In the nine deep hell of the underworld, a purple demon moon with a faint brilliance hangs high above the cloudy sky full of blood. The lavender moonlight shines on the spirit of the nine ghosts, but it doesn't feel a little gentle at all. Instead, it is a burst of deep cold that makes the soul tremble.

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.

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...

Kami-no-michi

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

Book Description

The Smart Set

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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.

Your Expectation

Author: Bart Sangster
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471740609
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Your Expectation is for everybody who wants to be successful in his or her professional and personal life. It will help to improve your rational skills in risk assessment, decision-making as well as the necessary emotional competencies to manage change, uncertainty and the interaction with others. Many stories and historical events highlight the various steps in the decision-making process and will inspire you to use seemingly irrelevant small events of every day's life to practice and further advance these skills and competences. Making an informed decision is not enough to make you meet your objective. A professional execution of your decisions is equally important. How can we best prepare for their execution. How do we learn to notice the many unexpected events, risks and opportunities, around us and how can we turn them into our advantage. Elisabeth Fry, Kublai Kahn, King Louis XIV of France, George Scovell and the Duke of Wellington will provide the examples.

Japanese Mythology A to Z

Author: Jeremy Roberts
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438128029
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Suitable for those with an interest in mythology or Japanese culture, this title covers: the early Japanese deities who created the world and the later deities who protect it; Kami, the spirits of all aspects of the living world; animals and mythological creatures; demons and bogeymen; and, shrines and other sacred places.