| Description |
396 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. |
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Voenno-istoricheskai︠a︡ biblioteka |
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Voenno-istoricheskai︠a︡ biblioteka (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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| Note |
Translation from English into Russian of: Samurai! / Saburō Sakai, with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito. |
| Summary |
Saburo Sakai was Japan's greatest fighter pilot to survive World War II. A veteran of more than two hundred dogfights, Sakai reportedly shot down sixty-four Allied planes, but he is best known for flying his crippled Zero nearly 600 miles to safety while partially paralyzed and nearly blind from multiple wounds. |
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Sakai, Saburō, 1916-2000.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese.
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Caidin, Martin, 1927-1997.
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Saito, Fred.
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| Added Title |
Samurai! Russian
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| ISBN |
9785170326365 |
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517032636X |
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