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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 48,940 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 — 1,678 ratings — published 1995
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,277 ratings — published 2021
The Girl with the White Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,290 ratings — published 1989
Okinawa: The History of an Island People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.99 — 155 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 — 4,092 ratings — published 2022
82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 912 ratings — published 2020
In the Woods of Memory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 110 ratings — published
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 729 ratings — published 1992
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 32 ratings — published
Above the East China Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,635 ratings — published 2014
Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 1999
Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 346 ratings — published
Grenade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 13,008 ratings — published 2018
Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.65 — 65 ratings — published 1995
Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series) (Volume 0)
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 — 5,300 ratings — published 2020
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.28 — 476 ratings — published 2020
Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 263 ratings — published 2020
Okinawa: The Last Battle (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 472 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 4.16 — 1,161 ratings — published 2010
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,059 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 — 294 ratings — published 2015
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa (The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2006
Okinawa Kwaidan, True Japanese Ghost Stories and Hauntings (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 132 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 4.25 — 621 ratings — published 2007
Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.21 — 14 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 4.02 — 193 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
A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.01 — 147 ratings — published 1981
Night In The American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 258 ratings — published
Marines on Okinawa A Pictoral Record (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 512 ratings — published 2023
World War Two at Sea: The Last Battleships (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 22 ratings — published 2014
The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31 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)
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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)
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avg rating 4.44 — 262 ratings — published
The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,536 ratings — published 1967
Combat Command (Mass Market Paperback)
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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 — 9 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)
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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 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1994
The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1996
Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II (General Military)
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avg rating 3.71 — 21 ratings — published 2017
Naval Aviation in the Second World War (Images of War)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2013
“The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.”
― With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
― With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
“The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind”
― Shorinjiryu Ryujin Kenpo
― Shorinjiryu Ryujin Kenpo
