Okinawa 1945: The last battle

By Gordon Rottman

By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark days of humiliating defeat were far behind the unstoppable Allied juggernaut - victory was now assured. The question was where the last battle would be fought. That place was the island of Okinawa. This book details the struggle for the island as US Marines and Army units battled determined Japanese defenders in the last battle of World War II (1939-1945).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Sep 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781782004622

Gordon Rottman

Gordon Rottman lives outside of Houston, Texas, served in the Army for twenty-six years in a number of “exciting” units and wrote wargames for Green Berets for eleven years. He’s written over 130 military history books, but his interests have turned to adventurous young adult novels—influenced by a bunch of audacious kids, Westerns owing to his experiences on his wife’s family’s ranch in Mexico, and historical fiction focusing on how people lived and thought—history does not have to be boring. His first Western novel, The Hardest Ride, garnered three writing awards and was a USA Today and Amazon best seller.

Reviews for Okinawa 1945

[madcatnip72 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Good,albeit too short, campaign introduction for a very long and bloody conflict. Excellent choice of photos, many of which will be new to the average WWII armchair historian. Concentrates more on the land battle and the USN efforts to combat the kamikaze onslaught are sadly not well-covered.A very useful book but one that inadvertently illustrates the limitations of Osprey's Campaign series format.