Showing posts with label Okinawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Okinawa. Show all posts

Friday, September 18, 2015

The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II [Audiobook]




The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II [Audiobook] by Bill Sloan


English | November 2, 2007 | ASIN: B000Z7FH3S, ISBN: 1433204398 | MP3@64 kbps | 14 hrs 7 mins | 399 MB

Narrator: Robertson Dean | Genre: Nonfiction/History




Respected historian Bill Sloan tells the full story of the Battle of Okinawa as it has never been told before, through the eyes of the men in battle.




Using the same grunt"s-eye-view narrative style of Sloan"s acclaimed Brotherhood of Heroes, The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the largest land-sea-air battle ever waged by the United States, a battle whose staggering casualties and take-no-prisoners ferocity led Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. From April through June 1945, more than 250,000 American and Japanese lives were lost, including those of nearly 150,000 civilians who either committed suicide or were caught in the crossfire. This book tells a gripping story of heroism, sacrifice, and death.








Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II




Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II


Viking Press | 1995 | ISBN: 067084716X | English | 260 pages | PDF | 27.3 MB




On September 29, 1944, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Ocean Area (POA), and Fleet Admiral Ernest King, chief of U.S. Naval Operations, conferred in San Francisco on the next steps to be taken to deliver the final crusher to a staggering Japan.