Samurai!

Samurai!

First edition (publ. E. P. Dutton)
Author	Saburo Sakai with Fred Saito and Martin Caidin
Country	United States
Language	English
Published	1957
Publisher	E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc.
Pages	382
OCLC	13306376

Samurai! is a 1957 autobiographical book by Saburo Sakai co-written with Fred Saito and Martin Caidin. It describes the life and career of Saburō Sakai, the Japanese combat aviator who fought against American fighter pilots in the Pacific Theater of World War II, surviving the war with 64 kills as one of Japan's leading flying aces. Caidin wrote the prose of the book, basing its contents on journalist 's extensive interviews with Sakai as well as on Sakai's own memoirs.

Questioned assertions[]

According to an analysis of official Japanese records, Sakai had 28 aerial victories. This number includes shared victories. The same source claims that Martin Caidin intentionally inflated these numbers to generate publicity for this book. It also attests that many stories written in his books are fiction, and that the claims made in Samurai! are very different from the content of Japanese works on the life of Saburo Sakai.^[1]

See also[]

Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots - 1985 book by Henry Sakaida dealing with the wartime history of Saburō Sakai

References[]

External links[]

• In depth review of Samurai!

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