Okinawa, Robert Leckie
Okinawa, Robert Leckie
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Okinawa
A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II

Author: Robert Leckie

Narrator: Preston Geer

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/28/2023

Synopsis

Okinawa delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.

Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing battle strategy and analysis with portraits of the men who fought on both sides to give the listener a complete account of the invasion. Lasting eighty-three days and surpassing D-Day in both troops and material used, the Battle of Okinawa was a decisive victory for the Allies, and a huge blow to Japan. In this stirring account, Leckie provides a complete picture of the battle and its context in the larger war.

About Robert Leckie

Robert Leckie (1920-2001) served in the 1st Marine Division during World War II. After the war, he worked as a reporter for the Associated Press, the New York Journal American, the New York Daily News, and other newspapers. During his lifetime, he authored more than forty books on American war history, including March to Glory, The Battle for Iwo Jima, and The Wars of America: From 1600 to 1900.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick on March 13, 2024

I enjoyed Robert Leckie's autobiography, Helmet for My Pillow (one of the biographies that inspired the HBO miniseries The Pacific). So when I found out that he had written a book on the battle of Okinawa, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II (1996), before I was scheduled for my second visit to......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 29, 2015

Excellent account of the battle for Okinawa by a participant. Very clearly written and lays out the background of the battle well at the start.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on October 16, 2018

I'm slowly trying to learn more about the historic events of the past that I feel were glossed over or too briefly covered during my education both in high school and in college. Now I'm not saying we didn't cover WWII, we definitely did, but it seems that other than Pearl Harbor and dropping the bo......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on August 04, 2020

Well, the book was stale in my opinion. Cause this book was written in two views from the author's view on both of them. Then add with so many jargons accord to formats and groups etc etc. Due to that, the talk about movements and clashes in the Okiwana was so foreign to me. This book gave zero visu......more

Goodreads review by Mark on June 30, 2022

Another good Robert Leckie book, essentially an overview of the Okinawa campaign in 1945. This was an incredibly difficult and complex operation that resulted in the highest casualties ever suffered by US forces in the pacific. The Kamikaze attacks unleashed by Japan at the US 5th Fleet resulted in......more

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