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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Sloan, Bill, 1935- author.     Subjects     United States. Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.     Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sloan, Bill, 1935- author.       by title:      Their backs against ...         MARC Display

Their backs against the sea : the Battle of Saipan and the largest banzai attack of World War II / Bill Sloan. by Sloan, Bill, 1935- author. [New York] : Da Capo Press, 2017. Subjects United States. Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.   Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944. ISBN:  9780306824715 (hardcover) : 030682471X (hardcover) Description:  278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First Da Capo Press edition. Contents:  Islands of mystery -- The infernal beach -- The eternal beach -- Enter the 27th Division -- The Marianas turkey shoot -- Smith vs. Smith -- "Something's coming!" -- To die with honor -- The aftermath -- Tinian's rolling plains -- Coming home -- Tinian and the B-29 -- Dismay in Japan. Requests:  0 Summary:  In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered the next day, thirty dead enemies were piled around him. The Battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes couldn't have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, its capture would result in secure air bases for the new B-29s that would put them within striking distance of the Japanese homeland. The outcome of the war in the Pacific lay in the balance. In this gritty, vivid narrative, award-winning author Bill Sloan fuses fresh interviews, oral and unit histories, and unpublished accounts to describe one of the war's bloodiest and most overlooked battles of the Pacific theater. Combining grunt's-view grit with big picture panorama (and one of the ugliest inter-service controversies of the war), Their Backs against the Sea is the definitive dramatic story of this epic battle--and an inspiring chronicle of some of the greatest acts of valor in American military history.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 940.5426 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 940.5426 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library R -- Hawaiian & Pacific H 940.5426 Sl Non Circulating Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.5426 Sloan Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 940.5426 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 940.5426 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Keaau P/S Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 940.5426 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 940.5426 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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