现在可以通过音频下载。这是一个关于生存和接受的难以置信的不为人知的故事，揭示了日本历史上最黑暗的篇章之一。
这本书讲述了小池和夫的故事，他在1943年加入日本皇家海军成为一名飞行员，当时只有16岁。一年后，他在不知不觉中被分配到了“神风”特种攻击部队，该部队的任务是牺牲生命，将飞机撞向敌舰。他们的呼号是“十死零活”
当你听一部神风队的回忆录时，你会体验到战斗机飞行员训练的艰辛，比如俯冲和潜水，以及看着其他学员坠入附近的山坡。你将目睹每次任务前接受死亡的心理创伤，当日本最终投降打断了小田的最后一次任务时，你将与他一起松一口气。你会对一个政府和社会感到愤怒，这个政府和社会在重建的绝望中把如此多的牺牲掩盖起来。
小田与生俱来的“武士精神”使他度过了童年、第二次世界大战，并最终成为剑道教练、警官和侦探。他对细节的关注、毫不动摇的自律和坚不可摧的意志往往是生与死的区别。现在已经90多岁的小田，在他生命中的大部分时间里都对自己的神风之旅保持着秘密。70年后，他同意与这本书的作者进行近70个小时的采访，这些作者都认识小田。他觉得自己有责任最终揭露关于神风队飞行员的真相：他们是毫无戒心的青少年，年轻人被要求听从上级军官的命令，而上级官员从未追究他们的责任。
这本书为这些臭名昭著的自杀式飞行员提供了一个新的视角。它不是战争纪事，也不是学者们汇编的研究论文集。这是小田的文字记录。
Memoirs of a Kamikaze: A World War II Pilot’s Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation (Audiobook)
Now Available on Audio. An incredible untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history.
This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who—in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old—joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps—a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships. Their call sign was “ten dead, zero alive.”
As you listen to Memoirs of a Kamikaze, you will experience the hardships of fighter pilot training—dipping and diving and watching as other trainees crash into nearby mountainsides. you will witness the psychological trauma of coming to terms with death before each mission, and breathe a sigh of relief with Odachi when his last mission is cut short by Japan’s eventual surrender. You will feel the anger at a government and society that swept so much of the sacrifice under the rug in its desperation to rebuild.
Odachi’s innate “samurai spirit” carried him through childhood, WWII and his eventual life as a kendo instructor, police officer and detective. His attention to detail, unwavering self-discipline and impenetrably strong mind were often the difference between life and death. Odachi, who is now well into his nineties, kept his Kamikaze past a secret for most of his life. Seven decades later, he agreed to sit for nearly seventy hours of interviews with the authors of this book—who know Odachi personally. He felt it was his responsibility to finally reveal the truth about the Kamikaze pilots: that they were unsuspecting teenagers and young men asked to do the bidding of superior officers who were never held to account.
This book offers a new perspective on these infamous suicide pilots. It is not a chronicle of war, nor is it a collection of research papers compiled by scholars. It is a transcript of Odachi’s words.
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