Research Guides: Battle Studies: Okinawa Campaign: Books

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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945 - The Last Epic Struggle of World War II by Bill Sloan
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Call Number: D767.99.O45 S57 2007
WITH THE OLD BREED AT PELELIU AND OKINAWA by E. B. Sledge
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First-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa. Eugene Sledge was part of WWII’s famous 1st Marine Division, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines. It is based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament and documents what saved, threatened, and changed his life. It is also a story of how Sledge learned to hate and kill–and came to love–his fellow man.
THE TWILIGHT WARRIORS: THE DEADLIEST NAVAL BATTLE OF WORLD WAR II AND THE MEN WHO FOUGHT IT by Robert Gandt
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Call Number: D767.99.O45 G36 2010
ISBN: 0767932412
Publication Date: 2010

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