Book Reviews -- Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II-An Oral History by Gerald Astor
Ambrose, Stephen E., National Forum
GERALD ASTOR. Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II -- An Oral History. New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1995. 496 pages. $24.95.
The Battle of Okinawa, which began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, and lasted for three months, was a descent into hell. At no place, at no time, was combat worse than on Okinawa -- not at Gettysburg, not in the trenches in World War I, not on the Eastern Front in World War II, not on Iwo Jima. Losses were dreadful: 12,520 U.S. dead, 36,631 wounded; 110,071 Japanese soldiers killed, 7,401 captured (almost all badly wounded); and 140,000 Okinawan civilians dead.
The raw figures only hint at how savage and …
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Publication information:
Article title: Book Reviews -- Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II-An Oral History by Gerald Astor.
Contributors: Ambrose, Stephen E. - Author.
Magazine title: National Forum.
Volume: 75.
Issue: 4
Publication date: Fall 1995.
Page number: 41.
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