{"product_id":"so-sad-to-fall-in-battle-paperback-by-kumiko-kakehashi","title":"So Sad to Fall in Battle Paperback by Kumiko Kakehashi","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003ePresidio Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2007-09-04)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e248\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780891419174\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e278.6\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.83 x 13.92 x 1.47\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eThe Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times as the subject of  countless books and motion pictures, most recently Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of  Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and no wartime photo is more famous than Joe  Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi.  Yet most Americans know only one side of this pivotal and bloody battle. First published  in Japan to great acclaim, becoming a bestseller and a prize-winner, So Sad to Fall  in Battle shows us the struggle, through the eyes of Japanese commander Tadamichi  Kuribayashi, one of the most fascinating and least-known figures of World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As author Kumiko Kakehashi demonstrates, Kuribayashi was far from the stereotypical  fanatic Japanese warrior. Unique among his country’s officers, he refused to risk  his men’s lives in suicidal banzai attacks, instead creating a defensive, insurgent  style of combat that eventually became the Japanese standard. On Iwo Jima, he eschewed  the special treatment due to him as an officer, enduring the same difficult conditions  as his men, and personally walked every inch of the island to plan the positions  of thousands of underground bunkers and tunnels. The very flagpole used in the renowned  photograph was a pipe from a complex water collection system the general himself  engineered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exclusive interviews with survivors reveal that as the tide turned  against him, Kuribayashi displayed his true mettle: Though offered a safer post on  another island, he chose to stay with his men, fighting alongside them in a final,  fearless, and ultimately hopeless three-hour siege.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After thirty-six cataclysmic  days on Iwo Jima, Kurbiayashi’s troops were responsible for the deaths of a third  of all U.S. Marines killed during the entire four-year Pacific conflict, making him,  in the end, America’s most feared–and respected–foe. Ironically, it was Kuribayashi’ s own memories of his military training in America in the 1920s, and his admiration  for this country’s rich, gregarious, and self-reliant people, that made him fear  ever facing them in combat–a feeling that some suspect prompted his superiors to  send him to Iwo Jima, where he met his fate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Along with the words of his son and  daughter, which offer unique insight into the private man, Kuribayashi’s own letters  cited extensively in this book paint a stirring portrait of the circumstances that  shaped him. So Sad to Fall in Battle tells a fascinating, never-before-told story  and introduces America, as if for the first time, to one of its most worthy adversaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eKumiko Kakehashi is a freelance writer and editor. So Sad to Fall in Battle, her first book, was published in Japan and became an instant bestseller, winning the prestigious Soichi Oya Nonfiction Prize. Kakehashi lives in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46555403813025,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780891419174","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780891419174.jpg?v=1781785941","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/so-sad-to-fall-in-battle-paperback-by-kumiko-kakehashi","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}