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# The reluctant admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy by Hiroyuki Agawa (1979-01-01) Hardcover – 1656

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Very Good Biography of Yamamoto
            
*by Y***A on July 29, 2012*

In this biography little information is provided prior to Yamamoto's rise to admiral. Nothing about his childhood, his education by foreign missionaries or his days in the Japanese Naval Academy (or the fact that he had the second highest score on the entrance examination in the entire nation). Nor is there much information about his early career as an ensign, naval attaché or service as captains of a cruiser and aircraft carrier. This is a shame as it is these early years that provided him with a world view of international politics, economics and military and naval affairs, particularly naval aviation, that so differentiated him rom so many of his contemporaries.The book's biography starts, in earnest, after his rise to the rank of admiral. With this respect the book provides an excellent history, from his advancement over that rank, through his interaction with his military and political contemporaries through his attempts to, initially, prevent war with the U.S. to, finally and ironically, leading the naval aspect of that war against the U.S.The book also provides a brief history of Yamamoto's role in the early part of the war (i.e. Pearl Harbor and Midway) but, unfortunately, little about most other early campaigns such as the Solomons or the Imperial Fleets rampage off the Indian coast. The reader gets very little feel for Yamamoto's strategy and style of command. This is especially disappointing considering the fact that Mr. Agawa, the author, was a naval officer in the Japanese Navy. For a short and succinct book on that aspect of Yamamoto this reviewer highly recommends a book written by an ex-US Navy Officer, Mr. Mark Stille, published by the Osprey Press entitled "Yamamoto". That book is very short (about 60 pages, about a third of which consists of illustration) but provides an excellent introduction to Yamamoto's style of command, in terms of both strengths and weaknesses, as well as a military biography that helps the reader understand the underlying causes of these strengths and weaknesses.Mr. Agawa's book concludes with a very good and detailed narrative of the events leading to Yamamoto's death, from the U.S. code breaking that lead the U.S. to know about his visit to the front lines, the fighter attack leading to his death and the search for his plane.One last point that needs to be made about the book involves the translation. In general it is quite good albeit there are quite a few terms and words that are left in the Japanese but not translated to English. To give the translator credit, however, all of these words and terms are very difficult to translate from Japanese to English.All and all this book is a very good biography of Yamamoto even with the weaknesses mentioned above.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent biography of misunderstood Jap
            
*by J***Y on October 7, 2018*

Yamamoto was not the Jap warlord fiend he is sometimes assumed to be.  He actually liked and admired the US, especially Texas, and argued against attacking the US until his high-ranking friends feared for his life and sent him out to sea to avoid assassination.  History buffs will be blown away by this book.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This a great book, well written and I feel gives a ...
            
*by R***S on March 13, 2016*

This a great book, well written and I feel gives a reader a honest this man.  It, in my opinion,  should make people realize, Admiral Yamamoto was not in favor of a war with the United States, the book makes it clear.  He followed orders as any Military man swears an oath to do.  One point clearly made by this book, The Admiral knew Japan had about six months to defeat the United States or our industrial might would spell the end for Japan, which it did.
  

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