About the Book

As the seige of Stalingrad was the ultimate scene of carnage at the Eastern Front, the battle of Okinawa proved to be the bloodiest of the Pacific war. Almost the entire Japanese kamikaze effort of the Second World War was directed against the Americans at Okinawa. At the beginning of the battle on 1st April 1945, over one million American, Japanese and Okinawans were centred on the small Pacific island, by 23rd of June, when the Japanese commanders committed seppuku, 250 000 civilians and soldiers were dead. More people died during the battle of Okinawa than in the ensuing bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski combined.

Okinawa 1945 offers a stunning account of the last major campaign of World War 2 and the largest land-sea-air engagement. Superbly researched and extraordinarily detailed, Okinawa 1945 is told at the level of the participants themselves, soldiers and civilians alike, with the dramatic stories of three individuals running through the entire account.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 440

Size: 23.5cm x 15.5cm x 3.5cm

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