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Okinawa Books
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 47,652 ratings — published 1981
Okinawa: A Decorated Marine's Account of the Last Battle of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,648 ratings — published 1995
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,203 ratings — published 2021
Okinawa: The History of an Island People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.99 — 152 ratings — published 1958
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,958 ratings — published 2022
The Girl with the White Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,263 ratings — published 1989
82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.91 — 868 ratings — published 2020
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.33 — 716 ratings — published 1992
Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 1999
Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.56 — 322 ratings — published
In the Woods of Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.34 — 103 ratings — published
Grenade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,519 ratings — published 2018
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.39 — 31 ratings — published
Above the East China Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,624 ratings — published 2014
Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.63 — 63 ratings — published 1995
Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.90 — 58 ratings — published 1996
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,048 ratings — published 2020
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.25 — 462 ratings — published 2020
Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.23 — 253 ratings — published 2020
Okinawa: The Last Battle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.13 — 469 ratings — published
The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,151 ratings — published 2010
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,038 ratings — published 1961
Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.41 — 285 ratings — published 2015
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa (The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Okinawa Kwaidan, True Japanese Ghost Stories and Hauntings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.95 — 130 ratings — published 2013
The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.24 — 617 ratings — published 2007
Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2003
Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.28 — 67 ratings — published
The Battle For Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.01 — 188 ratings — published 1995
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.10 — 10 ratings — published 1999
Night In The American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.29 — 254 ratings — published
Marines on Okinawa A Pictoral Record (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.57 — 486 ratings — published 2023
World War Two at Sea: The Last Battleships (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.85 — 20 ratings — published 2014
The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.86 — 29 ratings — published
Kamikaze: Japan's Last Bid for Victory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 17 ratings — published
Ancestors Worship Okinawa's Indigenous Belief System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2000
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.42 — 256 ratings — published
The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,399 ratings — published 1967
Combat Command (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 1950
Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 2006
Writing Okinawa: Narrative acts of identity and resistance (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2008
Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos (English and Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.83 — 23 ratings — published
Crommelin's Thunderbirds: Air Group 12 Strikes the Heart of Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1994
The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1996
Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II (General Military)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.71 — 21 ratings — published 2017
Naval Aviation in the Second World War (Images of War)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2013
Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.39 — 49 ratings — published 1996
“. . . most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why”
― Dirty Fighting : Lethal Okinawan Karate
― Dirty Fighting : Lethal Okinawan Karate
“Lacy little green fronds waved up through clear liquid; it reminded me of a forest stream in early spring, just after the ice has melted. I picked up a frond, and as I put it in my mouth, I experienced a moment of cool, pure freshness.
"What is it?" I asked Jake, enchanted.
"Mozuku, a special kind of seaweed from Okinawa. You don't think it's slimy?"
"Slippery, but I love the way it feels in my mouth.”
― Delicious!
"What is it?" I asked Jake, enchanted.
"Mozuku, a special kind of seaweed from Okinawa. You don't think it's slimy?"
"Slippery, but I love the way it feels in my mouth.”
― Delicious!
