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Summary:

When World War II ended, Yukikaze was the only elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer still afloat. Tracing her journey through the treacherous ocean battlefields of the Pacific War, this unique story is told through the eyes of the crew, who saw deep-running currents of Japanese history unfold before their eyes.

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Preface
• A Note on Sources
• Chapter 1 Divine Ships of a Bluewater Navy
• Chapter 2 Torpedoes, Destroyers, and Samurai of the Seas
• Chapter 3 Oil Empire and Japan's Southern Advance
• Chapter 4 Conquest of the South Seas
• Chapter 5 Escorting Catastrophe at Midway
• Chapter 6 Barroom Brawl at Guadalcanal
• Chapter 7 Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
• Chapter 8 The Mariana Islands and the Collapse of Japan's Defensive Sphere
• Chapter 9 The Leyte Theater
• Chapter 10 Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
• Chapter 11 Yamato and the Specter of History

• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

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Author/Creator:

Walker, Brett L., 1967- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Yukikaze's war: the unsinkable Japanese destroyer and World War II in the Pacific [by Walker, B.L.]

Subjects:

Yukikaze (Destroyer)

World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Japanese

World War, 1939-1945 — Pacific Area

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

D777.5.Y85 W355 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781108945783 (electronic bk.)
1108945783 (electronic bk.)
9781108837293 [Invalid]
1108837298 [Invalid]
9781108938792
1108938795

OCLC Numbers:

1436908027