{"product_id":"2940149005673","title":"Japan's Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945","description":"In modern military literature, there is no more pernicious theme than that the day of the infantryman\u003cbr\u003ehas passed us by, overwhelmed by increasingly lethal technology. Japan's Battle of Okinawa,\u003cbr\u003ethe newest of the Leavenworth Papers series, takes us into the world of the modern infantryman\u003cbr\u003eand illustrates in vivid detail Clausewitz' dictum that combat is to war as cash payment is to\u003cbr\u003ecommerce.\u003cbr\u003eDr. Thomas M. Huber's work is unique: for the first time in English, the Battle of Okinawa is\u003cbr\u003eanalyzed from the vantage point of the Japanese defenders. Basing his work on extensive research\u003cbr\u003ein Japanese military archives, Dr. Huber affords the reader a view of the Okinawa battles literally\u003cbr\u003efrom \"the other side of the hill.\"\u003cbr\u003eOkinawa was the most sanguinary of the Pacific island battles of World War II. Its occurrence\u003cbr\u003ecame at a point in the war when both combatants had accumulated years of experience in planning\u003cbr\u003eand executing complex operations on island terrain and had developed an array of fearsomely lethal\u003cbr\u003eweapons whose doctrines of employment were in full bloom. This meant that the ground at Okinawa\u003cbr\u003ewould be contested in ways that were reminiscent of the Western Front of World War I.\u003cbr\u003eIn this respect, Leavenworth Paper No. 18 may provide its most valuable service by depicting a\u003cbr\u003epart of World War II far removed from the plains of Europe that are so familiar to us today. For,\u003cbr\u003ealthough the tools of war employed in Europe were present on Okinawa, the shape, the tempo,\u003cbr\u003eand indeed the character of the operations on Okinawa were entirely different from those in Europe.\u003cbr\u003eStill, the Okinawa operations were every bit as testing of men and materiel as those in any venue\u003cbr\u003eof battle in the whole war.\u003cbr\u003eProfessional soldiers and students of modern war will be rewarded by reading this informative\u003cbr\u003eand insightful study, which is so suggestive of contemporary problems bearing upon the employment\u003cbr\u003eof infantry and other arms in high-intensity combined arms operations in inhospitable terrain against,\u003cbr\u003eit must be said, an implacable and skillful enemy.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075456614640,"sku":"2940149005673","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149005673_p0.jpg?v=1763710894","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149005673","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}