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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,more thanUS troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to Thee as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of NearlyJapanese and The Battle Of The Great War 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 others, and killed nearly 5, US seamen. When the slugfest ended after 82 days, more thanenemy soldiers lay dead--along with 7, US ground troops.

Tragically, more thanOkinawa civilians perished while trapped between the armies. The Th 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 Battle Of The Great War war's last great battle with a compelling human dimension. Marine veteran offers a perspective of the eighty-three-day battle from American and Japanese viewpoints.

A senior staff officer of Japan's 32nd Army, the highest ranking Japanese officer to survive the engagement, presents a personal account of the battle and an inside view of the Japanese high command.

The Americans had come back from the demoralizing defeat at Pearl Harbor to mount a ferocious attack against the Japanese. To be able to invade Japan, the Americans had to take Okinawa. But the Japanese, determined to defend their homeland and preserve their way of life, would fight to the death against the invaders.

As the Army and Marines fought bloody battles to gain Okinawa inch by inch, the Navy was subjected to kamikaze attacks. Inside you will read about For almost three months, the Americans and The Battle Of The Great War Japanese contested one another in a battle of endurance that highlighted the courage of the fighting men of both nations.

Ultimately, the Japanese lacked the resources of the Americans, and the Americans claimed the island. But the Americans had learned a deadly lesson from the Battle of Okinawa; if the Japanese fought this hard to protect one Tje, how much harder would they fight to preserve Japan itself, the last vestige of their empire? To save American lives, military leaders decided that they would utilize another, deadlier weapon to bring the Japanese to their knees.

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Te atom bomb and the nuclear age rose from the ashes of the Japanese defeat at Okinawa. A sweeping narrative history--the first in over twenty years--of America's first major offensive of World War II, the brutal, no-quarter-given campaign to take Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal From early August until mid-November ofUS Marines, sailors, and pilots The Battle Of The Great War for dominance against an implacable enemy: Japanese soldiers, inculcated with the bushido tradition of death before dishonor, avatars of bayonet combat--close-up, personal, and gruesome.

The glittering prize was Henderson Airfield. Japanese planners knew that if they neutralized the airfield, the battle was won. So did the Marines who stubbornly defended it. The outcome of the long slugfest remained in doubt under the pressure of repeated Japanese air, land, and sea operations. And losses were heavy. At sea, in a half-dozen fiery combats, the US Navy fought the Imperial Japanese Navy to a Greta, but at a cost of more than 4, sailors. More American sailors died in these battles off Guadalcanal than in all previous US wars, and each side lost 24 warships.

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On land, more than 1, soldiers and Marines died, and the air war claimed more than US planes. Japan's losses on the island were equally devastating--starving Japanese soldiers called it "the island of death. Guadalcanal was America's first major ground victory against Japan and, most importantly, the Pacific War's turning point.]