Record details

• ISBN: 9780743292467
• ISBN: 0743292464
• Physical Description: x, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
• Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
• Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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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World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan > Okinawa Island.
Civilian war casualties > Japan > Okinawa Island.
Okinawa Island (Japan) > History, Military.