Tarawa
A History, War, Military book. Written by journalist Robert Sherrod, this account of the U.S. Marines landing on the island of Tarawa...
The classic account of a war correspondent trapped in the hot hell of the Pacific front.In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror. Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod’s battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive. This story, a must for any history buff,...
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3.5 stars. The battle of Tarawa was a major American offensive in the Central Pacific and the first amphibious landing during WWII that was met with fierce Japanese resistance. What I liked about this book is that it is written by a war correspondent who landed with the U.S. Marines on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa atoll in... Written by journalist Robert Sherrod, this account of the U.S. Marines landing on the island of Tarawa during World War II is rather dry and factual which makes the bald account of the horrors of war all the more disturbing. The Japanese were well-dug-in and believed they would be able to hold the small, critically-placed airfield against... The battle of Tarawa was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific for the size of the island and quantity of troops. "It lasted 76 hours and it left nearly 6,000 dead on half a square mile of coral sand." All in all there were nearly 9,000 casualties of the battle. Sherrod was a newsreporter who landed with the Marines. And though...
