Bloody Okinawa : the last great battle of World War II
Wheelan, Joseph2021
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On Easter Sunday, April 1st, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. Utilizing accounts by US combatants and Japanese sources, author Joseph Wheelan endows this riveting story of the war's last great battle with a compelling human dimension.
Main title:
Bloody Okinawa : the last great battle of World War II / Joseph Wheelan.
Author:
Wheelan, Joseph, author
Imprint:
London : Hachette Books, 2021.
Collation:
432 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780306903205 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.542522
Language:
English
BRN:
1907083