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Wonderful fourth book of series about WW II. The author again does a masterful job introducing us to the Marines battling the Japanese forces in Okinawa (where in later years I served as a Marine officer with 3dMarDiv) and also the coverage of the Atomic bombs which ended the war in the Pacific and saved perhaps millions of lives while also taken many. I especially like the coverage of the Japanese side of the story and also the part where Tibbits delivers the first bomb on Hiroshima. Very detailed and well presented. Overall a very wonderfully written book which I as a retired Marine officer totally enjoyed as the did the other three of the series. I now look forward to reading more of Jeff Shaara books.


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The Final Storm A Novel of the War in the Pacific World War II Jeff Shaara Books Reviews

You can't have a lot of twists in something historical. If you have read a Shaara book, you know the format, close views of the little guys as well as the historical figures. He focuses mostly on the battle for Okinawa, one of the most bloody and awful battles ever waged. It's not easy to convey the horrific setting and the horrifying actions that take place, but he does a good job of that.
It's not uplifting to read and that's because there was nothing uplifting about the 100 day battle. At the end, you just want to flop down,
as some of the characters did, and try to forget the horror of what you've just read.
There must have been a lot of PTSD cases after it.
This book draws on historical sources and witness accounts to tell the story of combat against an implacable foe in the Pacific, a foe who did not understand the concept of honorable surrender the Japanese. The horrors visited upon those who fought is told from the American vantage point but it not hard to infer that it was as bad or worse for their Japanese enemies. This is an ugly tale of unimaginable awfulness in the story it tells.

But the larger point it makes is there for the reader to understand if he will dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was not an act of vengeance (although one must concede there was an understandable element of that in some minds,) but of necessity, even mercy of a miserable sort.

It is an irrefutable fact that the Japanese military would not have surrendered without the demonstration of the utter destruction awaiting their nation if they did not do so. In fact, archives show that it was finally through the imposition of a royal edict by the Emperor that Japan surrendered - and elements in the Japanese Army tried to assassinate him for it.

Were it not for the surrender the U.S. Would have had to invade Japan in the face of opposition from, not just the remains of their army, but civilians as well. Japanese resistance on Okinawa and the casualties suffered by the Americans (to say nothing of the Japanese) there alone demonstrated that an invasion of the Japanese home islands would be a long-term bloodletting without precedent in warfare, with the worst of it by far suffered by the Japanese civilians.

So, read this book. Let the horrors soak in, and understand.
Powerful, informative, memorable, moving ...
A historically accurate war novel that hits you like a gut punch.

I knew hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield must be a horrible thing no human should have to endure, but this book made the reality of that nightmare graphically real. The blood and gore was not gratuitous. It was simply one of many miserable aspects of the battlefield experience. It needed to be described in order to see and understand the bigger picture. As disturbing as the carnage was, it was the emotional aspects of the story that stood out for me. The sheer brutally raw courage and fortitude of the soldiers on both sides of the conflict was just awesome beyond mere words. Most of the men caught in these battles would deny being heroes because in their minds they were simply trying to do their job and survive, but I came away from this book with a far greater respect for these soldiers than I already had, which was considerable to begin with.

I was struck by the sheer overwhelming numbers of casualties on both sides during combat. It is doubtful that many Americans fully appreciate how many thousands of American men "gave" their lives during every single campaign to retake the strategic islands from the Japanese forces. It literally came down to which side lost the greatest numbers of soldiers in so many cases. It is difficult to imagine the American public today enduring such losses and finding the political will to continue the conflict. I do not envy the military leaders as they witnessed the mass carnage, and knew there was no other option than to keep sending all those men (and women in many cases) into the jaws of death until the damn thing was over with.

The author states right up front in the Forward to this book, that he takes no stand on the dropping of the atomic bombs at the end of the war in his writing. His aim in writing of these events is to relay the facts and the real and probable impacts of these facts on people (military and civilian) who experienced these events. He leaves it up to the reader to form their own moral judgments.

After reading this book, it seems clear that the dropping of the atomic bombs was the better of two terrible and unfortunate choices. Clearly, there would have been far greater suffering and loss of life on both sides if our forces had landed on main land Japan and fought a long, excruciatingly protracted ground war to reach the same end. Until reading this book, I never fully appreciated the unimaginable horror of the alternative choice (which is in no way meant to downplay the horror of the atomic destruction).
Wonderful fourth book of series about WW II. The author again does a masterful job introducing us to the Marines battling the Japanese forces in Okinawa (where in later years I served as a Marine officer with 3dMarDiv) and also the coverage of the Atomic bombs which ended the war in the Pacific and saved perhaps millions of lives while also taken many. I especially like the coverage of the Japanese side of the story and also the part where Tibbits delivers the first bomb on Hiroshima. Very detailed and well presented. Overall a very wonderfully written book which I as a retired Marine officer totally enjoyed as the did the other three of the series. I now look forward to reading more of Jeff Shaara books.