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Cargando... Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II (edición 2021)por Joseph Wheelan (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A detailed, hill by hill, ridge by ridge depiction of the battles for Okinawa. Unfortunately, a bit too much time was spent on the details, for my needs and not enough on the overall strategy and mission. Everything is mentioned, the misery, the brutality, the suicidal defense by the Japanese, but I would have liked a bit more focus on the entire effort and not the details. There were also a couple of small but glaring errors that call into question the accuracy of some of the specific information, but not enough to question the work in general. Not bad, but at this date and time, there are better stories about the battle of Okinawa. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 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. Waves of Japanese kamikaze and conventional warplanes sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others, and killed nearly 5,000 US seamen. When the slugfest ended after 82 days, more than 125,000 enemy soldiers lay dead--along with 7,500 US ground troops. Tragically, more than 100,000 Okinawa civilians perished while trapped between the armies. The brutal campaign persuaded US leaders to drop the atomic bomb instead of invading Japan. 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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