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Samurai!
- Narrated by: Kevin Waites
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Saburo Sakai became a living legend in Japan during World War II. Pilots everywhere spoke in awe of his incredible exploits in the air. Of all Japan’s aces, Saburo Sakai is the only pilot who never lost a wingman in combat. For a man who engaged in more than 200 aerial combats, this was an incredible achievement. His remarkable book Samurai! written by Martin Caiden but with the assistance of Sakai and Fred Saito is a brilliant account of life as a Japanese pilot in the Second World War.
Samurai! charts Sakai’s remarkable life from his lowly, poor origins, to signing up with the military at the age of 16, to his conflicts with American aircraft over Guadalcanal where he had the heavy fragments of two 50-caliber machine gun bullets embedded in his skull, through to the moment when Japan eventually surrendered. For many listeners Samurai! will do much to bring the Pacific air war into new perspective. The story of Saburo Sakai provides for the first time an intimate look into the “other side”.
Martin Caidin was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. Caidin was an airplane pilot as well, and bought and restored a 1936 Junkers Ju 52 airplane. Samurai! was first published in 1957, and Caidin passed away in 1997. Saburo Sakai was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace who had 64 aerial victories. He passed away in 2000.
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- 2023-06-13
Interesting story but horrible narration
This book gives an interesting perspective on the aerial war in the pacific told from the viewpoint of one of Japans Pilots. Unfortunately the narration is the worst i have heard thus far on audible. I had to check that its an actual person and not computer generated thats how monotonous it sounds like. It’s understandable that a lot of the japanese names and places are hard to pronounce but the narration leaves a lot to be desired. Very unfortunate.
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- Alexander Martins
- 2022-02-15
Excellent Book. Narration Good
Great book I enjoyed it thoroughly. The narration is fine, every hour or so there is a slight bump in the audio it’s no more then a second and nothing major to take you away from the story or the experience.
I will save this classic and listen to it again many times in the future!
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- Robert
- 2023-03-29
Appalling narration
The narrator mispronounces Saburo Sakai's last name as "Sake" throughout the first few chapters. In the foreword, you hear him make a mistake, mumbling "f***ing christ" under his breath before continuing again. You can hear him audibly pause to turn the pages as he's reading. Multiple audio editing errors peppered throughout the book. That they didn't rerecord the errors shows how little they cared about this WW2 classic.
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