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The ultimate battle : Okinawa 1945--the last epic struggle of World War II / Bill Sloan.

by Sloan, Bill, 1935-

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island.

Civilian war casualties -- Japan -- Okinawa Island.

Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Military.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007016871.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007016871-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007016871-s.html

x, 405 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

Prologue: June 10, 1945 -- Building an "Iceberg" -- "Like a stroll in the park" -- Kids' games, pony rides, and barbecue -- A nasty surprise on the way south -- A divine and deadly wind -- Death in the hills, death at home -- A wall of stone and flame -- Mud, blood, and may-hem -- Bitter toll at sugar loaf -- The limits of human endurance -- Divine wind-part II -- The crowded, angry skies -- Collapse of the Shuri line -- The end of an army -- A civilian catastrophe -- A somber victory -- The atomic bomb-and reprieve -- Epilogue: love day plus sixty-two years.

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