Their Backs Against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II
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In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered the next day, thirty dead enemies were piled around him. The Battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:030682471X
ISBN13:9780306824715
Release Date:June 2017
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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