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Requiem for Battleship Yamato
- De: Yoshida Mitsuru, Richard Minear - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru's story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war. The book has long been considered a classic in both Japan and the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutally Honest Account of Institutional Idiocy
- De Austin Thompson en 05-31-14
Brutally Honest Account of Institutional Idiocy
Revisado: 05-31-14
If you could sum up Requiem for Battleship Yamato in three words, what would they be?
Tragic, honest, humane
Who was your favorite character and why?
The author in the glimpses you see of the person writing the book, not his self at the time. He's able to show how he had been wrapped up in the suicidal militaristic mindset of the soon-to-be defeated Japanese while not bogging it down into moral or psychological analysis. The book is an account of what people did, said, and felt--it does not waste time performing moral or psychological analysis--the facts are too valuable here.
Which character – as performed by Graeme Malcolm – was your favorite?
I'll never forget the incredible poignancy of the senior officers going down with the ship but stopping the junior officers from doing the same. Mitsuru's crisp bureaucratic (in the sense of an excellent ship's log) prose reports only the facts, but earlier discussion of the blindness of the Japanese Navy's senior ranks leaves the reader with the thought that they were going down with more than the ship.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
It's something like a Japanese equivalent to With the Old Breed (and the brilliant movie, The Thin Red Line, although this, being set on a ship, has less interaction with nature and man's relationship to it). So I would work that into a tag line.
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