Their backs against the sea
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Published
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2017].
Status
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
Playaway 940.5426 S6341t
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Published
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2017].
Format
Playaway
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (8.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
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Release date supplied by publisher.
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Participants/Performers
Read by Dan Woren.
Description
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 In this gritty, vivid narrative, award-winning author Bill Sloan fuses fresh interviews, oral and unit histories, and unpublished accounts to describe one of the war's bloodiest and most overlooked battles of the Pacific theater.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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sloan, B., & Woren, D. (2017). Their backs against the sea . Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sloan, Bill and Dan, Woren. 2017. Their Backs against the Sea. Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sloan, Bill and Dan, Woren. Their Backs against the Sea Findaway World, LLC, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sloan, Bill,, and Dan Woren. Their Backs against the Sea Findaway World, LLC, 2017.
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