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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