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A must read for anyone interested in the Japanese viewpoint of WWII. Combined with Toland's 'The Rising Sun', this book gives a great look into the war and what it meant for a single Japanese pilot - from the promising beginning, where the Japanese Zero fighter was the apex predator of the sky, to the hopeless ending, where Japan resorted to the desperate tactic of kamikaze attacks.
Sakai does well to dispute some of the American propaganda used during the war, refuting some of their more wild claims of air superiority.
Not once during 'Samaurai!' was I lost in the terminology of the aircrafts (I've never been one to care about aircraft/navy vessels) which is also to Sakai's credit.

My biggest peeve with the book had little to do with the content itself, but rather its publisher. There must have been 30 spelling mistakes and grammatical errors at a minimum and it's in desperate need of a proofreader.