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82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle

text 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle

Shaw, Art

Summary
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer as... Read more
Contents
Prologue: Prelude to battle. Okinawa ; Surprises ahead ; Settling in ; The enemy emerges ; Coming ashore ; A price to be paid ; Sharpening the focus ; The snakes come slithering in ; Trudging on ; The end of the honeymoon ; No rest for the weary ;... Read more
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Description
ix, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 SHAW, ART SHA in Adult Non-fiction Available

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