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For a history buff this book is a must read. Just with in the first few pages you understand the military training that made the Japanese soldier into the type of fighting man he was. The honor code, the beatings until they passed out, and the control of their superiors had made them mindless in the attack, observing every command with exactness.
But this is a side note as to the fighter pilot Saburo Sakai who had downed 64 U.S. airplanes and was the top ace for Japan in WWII. The book is a compilation of firsthand information from interviews with people who were there, but it reads like a novel! Strap on your seat belt as you fly with him in his cockpit and as he survives limping his wounded plain home, hurt so badly (losing an eye) that he should never have flown again. Then bristling up, returning to the cockpit and the sky, again taking his Zero against multiple plains at the same time an impossible feat and returning his craft home without a bullet hole in it; it is a journey into WWII Japan, his finding love, and his conquering death by narrow escapes, his misery and degradation after the war and his rising to a position of success in life. What an adventure!