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Hiroyuki Agawa (阿川 弘之, Agawa Hiroyuki) (December 24, 1920 – August 3, 2015) was a Japanese author. He was known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays.
Hiroyuki Agawa has 33 books on Goodreads with 734 ratings. Hiroyuki Agawa’s most popular book is The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy.
Hiroyuki Agawa. Kodansha International, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 397 pages. This is the story of both an individual and an organization. The individual is Admiral Yamamoto, the...
Hiroyuki Agawa (阿川 弘之 Agawa Hiroyuki?) is a Japanese author born on December 24, 1920, in Hiroshima, Japan. He is known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays. As a high school student Agawa was influenced by the Japanese author Naoya Shiga.
Jan 1, 2000 · This is a biography of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet from 1939-1943. It is written by Hiroyuki Agawa, an author of biographies and historical fiction centered upon the Japanese experience in WW2. Agawa's biography of Yamamoto was originally published in Japan in 1969, and entitled "Yamamoto Isoroku."
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Burial in the Clouds is the first English language translation of Hiroyuki Agawa's classic novel of World War II, Kumo No Bohyo. The story of a young Japanese college student who has been inducted into the Imperial Navy, Burial in the Clouds tells the tale of his transformation from a combat pilot into a kamikaze, and explores the personal ...
Reviews HiROYUKi Agawa, The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Tokyo, New York, Kodansha International, 1979. 397 pp. $14.95.
