Chameleons, a Novel Based Upon Actual Events

✍ Scribed by Nannini, Marcus

• Book ID: 110364018
• Publisher: Marcus Nannini
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 943 KB
• Series: Commander Chris Pastwa 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780692814352

✦ Synopsis

Chameleons' approach to the "date which will live in infamy" is from the seldom-seen perspective of an Imperial Japanese Navy midget submariner. The author sets forth a strong argument that members of the Imperial Japanese Navy succeeded in melding into the local Japanese population, never to be discovered.In focusing on who, perhaps, is the ultimate "illegal alien" Marcus Nannini turns our attention to Lieutenant (junior grade) Masaharu Yokoyama. Yokoyama was the most qualified of the five midget submarine commanders who were sent to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was charismatic, courageous, focused and lived by the words: "Vision, Spirit, Patience and Honesty."Nannini transports the reader from the image of sailors crawling for their lives over the hull of the capsizing U. S. S. Oklahoma, into modern day Oahu, and points in between with seamless transitions as the life of Yokoyama is peeled open for inspection. Nannini uses no fewer than 16 images to bring to life...