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- Title Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II
- Author Joseph Wheelan
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hachette Books
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780306903205 / 0306903202
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Japan -, Civilian war casualties - Japan - Okinawa
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.542
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New. The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. The island of Okinawa was just 350 miles from mainland Japan, and the Allies planned to use it as its forward base for its invasion. On the island, nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers resisted the US-led assault with suicidal tenacity from a Gibraltar of hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, U.S. troops fought ferociously, battered the Japanese with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. The battle also marked the apotheosis of kamikaze air attacks, which sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others and killed almost 5,000 seamen. When the brutal slugfest ended, more than 125,00 enemy had been killed--and 7,500 American ground troops had died. And tragically, at least hundred thousand Okinawa civilians died violently while trapped between…
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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; From the author of Midnight in the Pacific, a stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign - the last of its kind.
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