Zero!

by Jiro Horikoshi, Masatake Okumiya, Martin Caidin

Book Overview

The thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, as told by the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553288725
• ISBN13: 9780553288728
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Japanese top fightr aircraft in WW II

Gives an excellent protrayal of the development and use as an top notch attack fighter, the best in the World at the start of WW II: and took the US close to a year to develop anything that could match it.

The rise and fall of the Japanese Navy depended on the zero

This book covers the early succeses of the Japanes Navy from the early years in China to the fall of the empire and the decline of the zero fighter against the newer American aircraft. It is a detailed and interesting insight into the Navys dependence on air cover in all their land based and carrier operations in world war two. I found this book well written and very detailed. This is not a story to be read like a novel but as a student of Japanese operations in the second worl war.

Fascinating Account of the Other Side!

It's been a long time since I read the book, but I particularly recall Okumiya telling about losing an eye in aerial combat, and returning to fly and fight again, as a one-eyed fighter pilot. Also, the accounts of how he felt about seasoned pilots being "invited" to fly Kamikaze missions; and his description of the conditions late in the war when the Japanese pilots were out-planed, out-gunned, out-numbered, and virtually starving on remote islands. I think this book is well worth the read.

an innovator

Too much of what you hear in New York these days is merely a rehash of old styles. Where is the innovation that Jazz is supposed to feed upon?Fortunately we have Greg Osby. Osby is one of a few true innovators on the NY scene. The first time I heard "Concepticus in C" (the last piece in this CD), it was like a punch in the face, almost as hard as the first time I heard Coltrane's Giant Steps. I listened to this short piece ten times in a row just to figure out its structure: it breaks all the rules. Osby's idea of rythm and harmony is really something else, very unusual, yet highly structured.I heard Osby in clubs in New York a few times, and walked out amazed every time. I highly recommend this CD.

A balanced view of the Battle of Midway

Masatake Okumiya, Jiro Horikoshi, and Martin Caidin teamed up in 1956 to write a balanced account of the Battle of Midway. Zero! is such a book. It tells, from the Japanese point of view, the story of the Battle of Midway. It goes from China through the Battle of Midway and beyond. A rip-roaring good read. It makes you feel like you're in the cockpit of the famous Japanese naval fighter alongside the likes of Saburo Sakai.