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Hardcover. Condición: VG++/VG++/ND. y First Edition. HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st. ?* Date of Publication: 1985* Publisher: Doubleday & Company Inc.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound Crimson Lake coloured paper to boards, black cloth with gilt title to spine. No bumps, minimal wear, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, small red pentel cross to fep. otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 217 pp. text. viii pp. Appendices. bibliography & index at rear.* Description: This title is the first balanced examination of the last major battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Overlooked by historians for years, the battle of Okinawa was one of the most fiercely contested and significant conflicts in modern military history. Located only 350 miles from mainland Japan, the island was crucial to the Allies' strategy as a key position for launching air attacks, and for the building of a massive force for an actual invasion of Japan itself. The conquest of Okinawa took an unexpected three months and was one of the bloodiest and most costly campaigns of the war.* A NEAR FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket reduces it to VG++*. n.