Thought this might be of interest.
Thomas Conlan is a Stanford trained historian who did his work on injury reports of BUSHI after battles. He wrote a very entertaining piece (
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache...n&ie=UTF-8</a>) which rather pillories the concept of the self-sacrificial warrior.
He has also published a book called In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, No 113)
by Thomas D. Conlan (Translator)
These scrolls, with translations, are available at:
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/mongol_scrolls/
Enjoy.
(Cross-posted with e-Budo.com)