Yoshida MitsuruReseñas
Autor de Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Bluejacket Books)
Reseñas
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The scenes of carnage are graphic. Yamato was strafed with bullets, torpedoed from airplanes, and submarines, bombed from the air. Human bits spattered decks and walls. How anyone survived the final moments is hard to fathom. As the ship sank its ammo went up at once, massive HE and AT shells, creating an atomic-like blast that felled passing airplanes. The few survivors in the water were sucked down into a whirlpool, or run over by passing ships and chewed up by propellers, or once plucked from the water, the rescue ships sunk by more planes. A few oil-soaked survivors made it through the maelstrom from which we have this insightful first-person account.
It has a complicated publishing history. Mitsuru wrote the first draft in less than a day in 1946. It was rejected by censors, portions were published in magazines over the following years, and a revised final edition appeared in 1952. It was made into a movie in 1953. The first English translation did not appear until 1985. Although not as well known in the English world (it should be) it is a classic in Japan and was influential in Japanese war literature.½