Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's crashed plane
At the end of my book, The Reluctant Admiral, Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Chief in Command of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was shot down by American P-38 Lightning interceptors over the island of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea. Following this, the book goes on to mention the aftermath of Admiral Yamamoto's death, which include the investigation of what actually happened in the crash, and the funeral of Yamamoto. In my opinion, The Reluctant Admiral is an important book. This is because it shows the character of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and the struggles that he went through, it shows that he wasn't just some cold blooded Japanese leader that planned the Attack on Pearl Harbor, instead it shows that Yamamoto had a life outside of the Imperial Japanese Navy, that he had a family, that he cared about those who worked under him and that he did not want to put them in danger. It also gives a relatively rare viewpoint into what the Japanese thought of the Pacific war, and the struggle inside of the government about it. It explains that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto did not even want war against the United States, and that he did not want the Japanese Empire to join the Tripartite Act, and it was not just Yamamoto, but the navy as a whole that disagreed with the army about these two crucial decisions that in the course of less than a decade led the Empire of the Rising Sun to its ruin.
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My book, The Reluctant Admiral, is a biography of Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The book talks about Yamamoto from the 1920's, and his visit to the United States and Europe as an ambassador, his time as the head of the aviation division of the Imperial Japanese Navy, his time as the representative on the preliminary talks of the Second London Naval Conference, his time as the navy vice minister, the time he spent as Commander in Chief during the war, on to his death on April 18th, 1943. The book spends most of its time covering the topic of WWII. World War II has influenced many things on today's world, such as warfare, the economy, what countries influence the world, and their allies. In the book, Yamamoto predicts that battleships will become obsolete, and the greatest asset of navies would be its air corps. This did end up happening. During WWII, the two major navies of the world, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Navy, focused on building new aircraft and their carriers instead of building new and more powerful battleships. Even today, navies do not use battleships, they use aircraft carriers. Another example of how the Second World War affects the modern world is that because Japan was not able to defeat the United States, the US became one of the superpowers. Not only that, but when Japan declared its unconditional surrender on August of 1945, the United States and General Douglas MacArthur wrote the new constitution. One of the things that they put in the constitution, is that Japan has to renounce war, and that they are not to build weapons of war or have a military (they can still have a defence force though). Even now, the Japanese government is trying to repeal or at least change that article of their constitution.
My book, The Reluctant Admiral, is a biography of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Empire. It is set in Japan during the 1930's to 1943 when Isoroku Yamamoto was assassinated by American P-38 Interceptors during an inspection tour. Historically, Japan during the 1930's and 40's was facing the Great Depression. Not only that, but they also were part of the Tripartite Pact and so they were allied with the Nazi Third Reich, and Fascist Italy. Japan itself had a surge of militarism and imperialism in its government, culminating with Hideki Tojo and Yamamoto's attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States of America into WWII. As of now, the book has Japan's imperialistic conquests in page 4. "Greeting Ishiwara,he asked where he was going. Ishiwara replied that he had been appointed commander of the Sixteenth Division and was on his way to Tokyo. he was to have an audience with the emperor, and intended to advise him that the present war (the China Incident) should not be allowed to continue". It has also mentioned the fact that Yamamoto will plan the attack on Pearl Harbor on the first page, "If one were to bring together a group of people who did not know what Yamamoto looked like, and to ask them which of these twenty-odd men was the one who in later years was to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor and oversee the fleet that carried it out," but the book is not yet into that point. The people of Japan had different viewpoints of what is happening. Some people, like Yamamoto did not want to go to war, meanwhile others did want to go to war against countries such as China. Even so, most people in the navy agreed that it would be unwise to declare war on the United States of America or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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