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Fighting Spirit - The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Fighting Spirit - The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Fighting Spirit is essential reading for anyone interested in the
Battle of Iwo Jima and the Pacific War. Major Horie was one of only
four Japanese field grade officers directly associated with the
Battle of Iwo Jima who survived and the only officer known to have
left memoirs. Having served as a liaison officer with the Navy,
Major Horie described in detail the respective positions, ideas and
assumptions that both the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy had when
executing the Pacific War, the personalities involved, and the
challenges they faced. He was a specialist in logistics and headed
Lt. Gen. Kuribayashi's detached headquarters on Chichi Jima,
located between Iwo Jima and mainland Japan. He was, however,
intimately involved in planning the battle, and used his experience
as a liaison to the Imperial Navy to share information and insights
through his contacts. He was also very much aware of the limits to
Japan's strategy. Fighting Spirit is an annotated translation of
the memoirs of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yoshitaka Horie,
co-edited by a USMC veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima and an
American academic who is a specialist on U.S.-Japan relations. In
addition to the original chapters of Horie's work, the book
includes an Editors'Preface, providing biographical information on
Major Horie and the context of the book, and two appendices of
materials prepared by Major Horie shortly after the end of the war.
About the Author Robert D. Eldridge is currently the deputy
assistant chief of staff, G-5, Marine Corps Bases, Japan, and was a
tenured associate professor at the School of International Public
Policy, Osaka University, Japan, from 2001-2009.
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