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The Final Surprise opens a new forward in Jeff Shaara's gripping chronicle of World War II as military, sailors, and marines sacrifice all for one final force toward decisive triumph in the brutal maelstrom of the Pacific theater. As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has switched its vast military services resources toward an all-out work against japan. In the planting season of 1945, Japan's empire has been pressed slowly again toward its home islands, and the People in the usa mount a furious assault on the previous great stepping-stone to Japan itself - the greatly fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month challenge will feature some of the most vicious battle of the whole war, as American troops confront an enemy that would rather be slaughtered than go through the pity of surrender. With a narrative dexterity befitting his position as a get good at storyteller, Shaara relates the story of the have difficulty for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both factors: Private Clay Adams, a marine whose sibling Jesse has already earned his talk about of glory as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne in Europe; Admiral Chester Nimitz, who must unite rival army and sea commanders into a cooperative work; General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., the American surface commander trying to live up to the legacy of his daddy, who led Confederate troops through the Civil War; and General Mitsura Ushijima, japan general responsible for defending the island, who understands what Tokyo won't imagine: that his own struggle to the death will only wait the inescapable - as the People in the usa continue their progress toward the home islands and ultimate triumph. With the battles raging across the Pacific, another kind of advertising campaign has been waged in extraordinary secrecy: the development of a tool so powerful, not even the scientists who build it know just what they are going to unleash. Colonel Paul Tibbets, one of the best possible bomber pilots in the U.S. Military Air Corps, is picked to lead the mission to drop the horrific new tool on the Japanese city. As the new chief executive, Harry S Truman, mulls his options, and a Japanese doctor named Okiro Hamishita cares for patients at a medical clinic near the city of Hiroshima, individuals on the home front await your day of reckoning that everyone knows is coming. A fitting conclusion to one of the most riveting sagas in military services fiction, The Final Surprise illuminates the heroism and sacrifice that defined the war in the Pacific, delivering the conflict alive as only Jeff Shaara can.
