Crucible of Hell

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"With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail American's audacious drive to win the world back from the Axis powers: Japan. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa. The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the greatest aid-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops at ports around the world. The campaign lasted for eighty-three blood-soaked days as the fighting plumbed the depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he witnessed, referred to the fighting as the "crucible of Hell""--! Back cover