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The extraordinary tale of the World Warfare II air, land, and sea plan that brought the US Navy to the apex of its strength and designated the rise of america as a worldwide superpower. Among America's preeminent armed service historians, Adam D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive and ambitious publication to date. Drawing on new key sources and personal accounts of Us citizens and Japanese equally, this is a exciting narrative of the climactic end level of the Pacific Warfare, focusing on the US invasion of the Mariana Islands in June 1944 and the momentous situations that it brought about. Using its thunderous assault into Japan's internal defensive perimeter, America crossed the threshold of total warfare. Through the seaborne invasion of Saipan to the stunning aerial fights of the Great Marianas Turkey Blast, to the major banzai attack of the warfare and the proper bombing effort that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Marianas became the fulcrum of the drive to compel Tokyo to surrender - with effects that forever modified modern war. These unprecedented businesses saw the first large-scale use of Navy underwater demolition groups; a revolution in the fleet's ability to support cross-hemispheric expeditionary warfare; the struggle of American troops facing not just a suicidal enemy garrison but anxious Japanese civilians; and the rise of the US Navy as the greatest of grand fleets. Through the Marianas, B-29 Superfortresses would finally unleash nuclear flame on an enemy resolved to fight to the finish. Hornfischer casts this clash of countries and ethnicities with cinematic scope and penetrating perception, focusing strongly on the people who increased to the task under flame: Raymond Spruance, the outstanding, coolly determining commander of the Fifth Fleet; Kelly Turner, whose amphibious makes delivered Marine General Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith's troops to the shorelines of Saipan and Tinian; Draper Kauffman, creator of the navy product that predated today's SEALs; Paul Tibbets, the creator of history's first atomic striking drive, who flew the Enola Gay to Hiroshima; and Japanese warriors and civilians who saw the specter of defeat as the best test of the spirit. Through the seas of the Central Pacific to the shores of Japan itself, The Fleet at Overflow Tide is a stirring and deeply humane accounts of World Warfare II's world-changing finale.
