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Title: The last trip of the Behemoth
Review: The reminiscences of a young IJNAF officer, Mitsuru Yoshida, onboard for the last trip of the powerful IJNS Yamato on April, 1945 off Okinawa, translated word by word and almost verse by verse from the Japanese.As a matter of fact, journals and diaries whatever the subject, war, peace, love, adventure, etc. are a bit boring, because they use to describe a day-by-day routine. This book is no exception. It would be better if the author's next-of-kin could have chosen a ghost writer to give a more historical perspective giving it into a more "readable" appearance. As it was, there was too little but a lot of personal and almost poetic emotions filing the pages. The subject is very interesting - a decisive battle seen from the loser's point-of-view - and practically nothing was said about the details of the clash itself.
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