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In the last days of World War II a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific To the sailors who learned to fear them the bodycrashing warriors of Japan were known as suiciders among the Japanese they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion kamikaze

Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nailbiting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes Born of desperation in the face of overwhelming material superiority suicide attacksby aircraft submarines small boats and even manned rocketboosted gliderswere capable of inflicting catastrophic damage testing the resolve of officers and sailors as never before David Searss gripping account focuses on the vessels whose crews experienced the full range of the kamikaze nightmare From carrier USS St Lo the first US Navy vessel sunk by an orchestrated kamikaze attack to USS Henrico a transport ship that survived the landings at Normandy only to be sent to the Pacific and struck by suicide planes off Okinawa and USS Mannert L Abele the only vessel sunk by a rocketboosted piloted glider during the war these unforgettable stories reveal one of the most horrifying and misunderstood chapters of World War II