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The Ultimate Battle tells the full story of the Battle of Okinawa as it has never been told before, using the same up-close narrative style and "grunt's-eye" view of the action that distinguishes Sloan's Brotherhood of Heroes from other war books. It really is a gripping story of heroism, sacrifice, and death in the major land-sea-air operation in US history. From April to June 1945, more than 250,000 American and Japanese lives were lost (including those of practically 150,000 civilians who either committed suicide or were caught in the crossfire). It really is a story told against a panorama of just one 1,300 American ships, 1,900 Japanese kamikazes sworn to sink those ships, and two huge armies (the 541,000-member U.S. Tenth Army of GIs and Marines, and Japan's 110,000-man 32nd Army) locked in a no-quarter battle to the death. But woven into the broader narrative, in Band-of-Brothers style, will be the personal stories of men who endured this epic battle - more than sixty of whom were interviewed by the writer. Oftentimes, their activities are told within print for the very first time.
