Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima

by Charles W. Tatum

Fighting Spirit is essential reading for anyone interested in the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Pacific War. Maj. Horie was one of only four Japanese field grade officers directly associated with the Battle of Iwo Jima who survived. He was 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591148561
• ISBN13: 9781591148562
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"