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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 — 48,195 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 — 1,662 ratings — published 1995
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,235 ratings — published 2021
Okinawa: The History of an Island People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.99 — 154 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 — 4,017 ratings — published 2022
The Girl with the White Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,271 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 3.92 — 885 ratings — published 2020
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.32 — 723 ratings — published 1992
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)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.57 — 329 ratings — published
In the Woods of Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.34 — 106 ratings — published
Grenade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 12,741 ratings — published 2018
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 31 ratings — published
Above the East China Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,627 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 3.62 — 64 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 — 5,145 ratings — published 2020
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.24 — 469 ratings — published 2020
Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.23 — 259 ratings — published 2020
Okinawa: The Last Battle (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 471 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 — 1,155 ratings — published 2010
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,047 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 — 287 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 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2006
Okinawa Kwaidan, True Japanese Ghost Stories and Hauntings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.95 — 131 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 — 619 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 4.01 — 190 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 — 256 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 4.56 — 497 ratings — published 2023
World War Two at Sea: The Last Battleships (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.91 — 22 ratings — published 2014
The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia (Hardcover)
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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 4.43 — 258 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 4.33 — 2,435 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)
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
“. . in Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive”
― Ryukyu Kobujutsu : Bo - Tanbo - Toifa
― Ryukyu Kobujutsu : Bo - Tanbo - Toifa
“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!
