kamikaze pilots

Suffering from the post-traumatic stress of being buried alive after a 1945 bombing raid on her Japanese hometown, fifteen-year-old Hana feels she has nothing to live for until meets seventeen-year-old Taro, a Kamikaze pilot training for his one and only mission. Over a period of eight days, Hana and Taro fall in love and await Taro's inevitable mission.

"Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary"--Provided by publisher.

"Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary"--Provided by publisher.

Relates the personal narrative of former Japanese Kamikaze pilot, Yasuo Kuwahara, describing his youth in Japan, conscription into miliary service, and his final attack orders just prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.