Haigun No Meisho Imparu Okinawa Tokko (Gentosha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] Koutoku Sato, who defied his superiors and decided to withdraw from the battlefield during the Imphal Operation, and Shigezaburo Miyazaki, who succeeded in withdrawing from the battlefield without losing a single casualty due to starvation under his command. Hiromichi Hachihara, who planned and executed an operation that differed from the policy of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters during the Battle of Okinawa to suppress the U.S. forces. Tadashi Minobe of the Fuyo Unit, who refused to go on a suicide mission and achieved success with his own unique strategy. This book traces the decisions and actions of these four commanders from a bird's eye view of the Pacific War. This is a book of lessons for modern Japan, where baseless spiritualism, peer pressure, and unreasonableness abound.

インパール作戦で上官に逆らって撤退を決断した佐藤幸徳、その配下で1人の餓死者も出さず撤退に成功した宮崎繁三郎。沖縄戦で大本営の方針と異なる作戦を立案・実行し、米軍を抑え込んだ八原博通。特攻を拒み、独自の作戦で戦果を上げた芙蓉部隊の美濃部正―戦争という狂気の時代に、なぜ彼らは、暗愚な上官・中央の命令に抵抗し、信念を貫くことができたのか?太平洋戦争を俯瞰しながら、4人の指揮官の決断と行動をたどる。根拠なき精神論・同調圧力・理不尽が跋扈する現代日本への教訓の書。