Zero by Okumiya Masatake and Jiro Horikoshi with Martin Caidin (9 results)

Mass market paperback. Condition: Very good. First Bantam Printing [Stated]. xix, [3], 374, [4] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Tabular Information. Slight wear to cover. Masatake Okumiya (July 27, 1909 - February 22, 2007) was a historian and lieutenant general in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Okumiya graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1930. He was commissioned an ensign in April 1932, received his wings in November 1933 as a naval aviator, and was promoted to sub-lieutenant in the same month. In 1937, he participated in the attack on the USS Panay. Promoted to lieutenant-commander in October 1941, Okumiya served throughout World War II, including on the aircraft carrier Ry j and with the 2nd Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During 1942-1943, he served as chief of staff of the 26th Naval Air Squadron, and was appointed to a staff post in August 1944. He was promoted to his final rank of commander in November 1944. At the end of the war, Okumiya was interrogated by Allied intelligence officers, after which he was demobilized. This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is the story of the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (leader of many Zero squadrons), and Saburo Sakai (Japan's leading surviving fighter ace) as well as many other men, tell the inside story of developing the Zero and Japan's air force. They tell what it felt like to bomb American ships and to shoot down American airplanes -- and then of their shock when the myth of invincibility was shattered by the new Lightning, Hellcat, and Corsair fighters. They tell of the fight against the growing strength of a remorseless American enemy; and how, in desperation the Japanese High Command ordered the creation of deadly suicide squadrons, the Kamikaze. And finally they reveal their reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Fifth printing, July 1966; Ballantine War Book number U6061; cover price 75 cents; page edges tinted orange; includes black-and-white photos; great wraparound cover art of a strafing Zero. The book is square and unmarked; spine lightly creased; one page is corner-creased; wraps smooth with minor edgewear; sleeve protected.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Collectible-Good. Rare 1957 Balantine 2nd printing, paperback, great cover art, complete and unmarked but covers and spine are worn and fragile. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!

Hardcover. 10mo; pp 364; G; tan spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth has sunned exterior, mostly to spine, as is; strong boards; minor wear to corners; text block exterior edges have slight foxing; frontispiece; illustrated; light offset tone to endpapers; good binding. 1332116. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Octavo. 424pp. Modest wear on the boards, very good or better lacking the dustwrapper.

1st in imprint, paperback, 412pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [iv], #G613, coloured lettered upper wrapper, an account of the Japese 'Zero' fighter and also that of the Japanese Navy Air Force from 1937 to 1945, covering theIr early successes with the Zero that led to their air superiority, through its later adaptation as a dive-bomber and the nororious Kamikaze suicide raids, roll and slant to wrinkled spine, edges tanned, overall soiling and light foxing to wrappers, ink name inside front wrapper, fair,

Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 423pp/illus. Story of Japanese naval air war in Pacific. Spine taped. Shelf wear. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint, 1979. A Near Fine copy lacking dust jacket. 8vo., 424 pp., bound in publishers black cloth with titles in gilt and red on spine. Previous sellers sticker inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked, gilt bright on spine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 3rd Printing. 423pp/illus. Story of Japanese naval air war in Pacific. Clean with light age. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.