Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II
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The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge Death Valley and Hells Pocket under a commander known as Howlin Mad. Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar fighters downing Japanese aircraft submarines sinking carriers. Marine-army rivalry. Fanatical Japanese defense and resistance. A turning point of the Pacific War. James Hallas reconstructs the full panorama of Saipan in a way that no recent chronicler of the battle has done. In its comprehensiveness attention to detail scope of research and ultimate focus on the men who fought and won the battle on the beaches and at and above the sea it rivals Richard Franks modern classic Guadalcanal. This is the definitive military history of the Battle of Saipan.
