Okinawa 1945

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Summary: Makes history, in all its gritty reality, truly come alive
Review: Okinawa 1945 by T. M. Huber is an authoritative and detailed recounting of the last campaign of World War II to take place in the Pacific Theatre. This was a battle so brutal that it convinced President Harry Truman to deploy atomic weapons in Japan as a preferable alternative to the utter bloodbath and the estimated hundreds of thousands of American deaths that a "D-Day" style invasion and conquest would bring. Black-and-white photographs embellish a wealth of details, all of which presented in a smooth narrative style. A superb study that makes history, in all its gritty reality, truly come alive, Okinawa 1945 is a welcome and highly recommended addition to World War II Military History reference collections and reading lists.