Book description
After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis
Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest
navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan. He commanded an immense
armada, the largest fleet the world had ever seen and his success
seemed assured. The Japanese were vastly outnumbered and facing
certain death, but they prayed to their gods for survival and the very
next day Khan's entire armada were destroyed by a 'divine wind', the kamikaze.
The legend of the kamikaze has endured for centuries, and was
revived as a Japanese national legend during the Second World War,
culminating in the suicide bombers they sent to attack the Allies, but
the truth has remained a mystery. Only now, after decades of
painstaking research and underwater excavation can leading marine
archaeologist James Delgado reveal the truth of what really happened
to Khubilia Khan's fleet.
The President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, James
Delgado is a marine
archaeologist who has led and investigated shipwreck expeditions
around the world. The author or editor of thirty books, when not
travelling the world for the INA in quest of lost ships, he lives on
the waterfront in Vancouver.
