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03599aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 ECCF3028939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 161009s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 030682471X 020 $a 9780306824715 035 $a (OCoLC)960294725 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d HQD $d SINLB $d OCLCO $d FM0 $d PFLCL $d OCLCF $d VP@ $d WIH $d IGA $d SILO 050 14 $a D767.99.S3 $b S56 2017 082 04 $a 940.54/2667 $2 22 100 1 $a Sloan, Bill, $d 1935- $e author. 245 10 $a Their backs against the sea : $b the battle of Saipan and the largest banzai attack of World War II / $c Bill Sloan. 246 30 $a Battle of Saipan and the largest banzai attack of World War II 250 $a First Da Capo Press edition. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Da Capo Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index. 505 0 $a Islands of mystery -- The infernal beach -- The eternal beach -- Enter the 27th Division -- The Marianas turkey shoot -- Smith vs. Smith -- "Something's coming!" -- To die with honor -- The aftermath -- Tinian's rolling plains -- Coming home -- Tinian and the B-29 -- Dismay in Japan. 520 $a 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, and the stakes couldn't have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, its capture would result in secure air bases for the new B-29s that would put them within striking distance of the Japanese homeland. The outcome of the war in the Pacific lay in the balance. In this gritty, vivid narrative, award-winning author Bill Sloan fuses fresh interviews, oral and unit histories, and unpublished accounts to describe one of the war's bloodiest and most overlooked battles of the Pacific theater. Combining grunt's-view grit with big picture panorama (and one of the ugliest inter-service controversies of the war), Their Backs against the Sea is the definitive dramatic story of this epic battle--and an inspiring chronicle of some of the greatest acts of valor in American military history. 610 10 $a United States. $b Marine Corps $x History $y World War, 1939-1945. 610 14 $a United States. $b Marine Corps $x History $y World War, 1939-1945. 610 17 $a United States. $b Marine Corps. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00528845 611 07 $a Saipan, Battle of (Northern Mariana Islands : 1944) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01103673 611 27 $a World War (1939-1945) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180924 650 0 $a Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944. 651 7 $a Northern Mariana Islands. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01203331 650 7 $a HISTORY / Military / United States. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Military / World War II. $2 bisacsh 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 4 952 $l DYPD423 $d 20201222010344.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006110127.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20171129010358.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003032346.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ECCF3028939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search