The Battle for Okinawa

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Colonel Yahara was the strategist and executor of the entire Japanese defense during the bloody military encounter which lasted from April to July 1945, the last battle in the Pacific Theater during WWII. It was Yahara who proposed a war of attrition, unique in the history of Japanese WWII island defenses and he was the only high-ranking officer to leave Okinawa without committing suicide. In this riveting book, Yahara presents an illuminating portrait of the final anguish of the Janpanese high command. "The most interesting of the 'last battle of the war' books."--The Washington Post