Okinawa: The last battle of World War II, by Leckie, Robert
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Okinawa: The last battle of World War II, by Leckie, Robert. Viking: New York, 1995. Edition: First edition. ISBN: 067084716X. Hardcover, 220 pages. Quarter bound in black cloth over gray paper-covered boards; red metallic lettering on spine. Sixteen page of black and white photographs. Include Index

Condition: Fine in a Near Fine jacket. Jacket has small tear (1/4 inch) at the lower rear corner and very minor rubbing.

Contents: From the jacket

The author, who himself fought as a Marine through many Pacific battles, retells this epic story of war from both sides, with strikingly close portraits of the Japanese generals, who in the battle's last moments committeed hara-kiri. Robert Leckie especially focuses on the American soldiers themselves and their commanding officers, drawing brilliantly illuminated portraits of individuals who fought a merciless enemy in the tradition of American military history at its most splended and most self-sacrificing.