George Feifer (1934–2019)
Autor/a de Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
Sobre l'autor
George Feifer is the author of nine books, including the best-selling "Moscow Farewell" & "The Girl from Petrovka". He has worked as a journalist, novelist, & translator in the United States, England, & the Soviet Union. He lives in Roxbury, Connecticut. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obres de George Feifer
Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 (2006) 82 exemplars
Obres associades
What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2001) — Col·laborador — 1,024 exemplars
What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2003) — Col·laborador — 501 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1997 (1997) — Author "The Ghosts of Okinawa" — 13 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1998 (1998) — Author "The Last Picture Show" — 13 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1998 (1998) — Author "The Last Czar as Leader" — 13 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1998 (1997) — Author "The Berlin Tunnel" — 9 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1934-09-08
- Data de defunció
- 2019-11-12
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Patterson, New Jersey, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions
- Journalist
- Biografia breu
- In the autobiographic "Moscow Farewell", the author presents his life in Moscow between 1959 and 1971, and in the last chapter remembers his father's new Buick in 1950. Assuming he could have been, say, 10 years old at the time, he could have been born around 1940.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 12
- També de
- 7
- Membres
- 531
- Popularitat
- #46,874
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 37
- Llengües
- 3
At 471 pages of reading, it is a 5 star book that touches on all aspects of the most costly battle in the entire Pacific War, impacting the U.S. personnel in the Army, Navy and Marines, Japanese soldiers in the Army, and the Navy and the most unfortunate victims of all thy Okinawan civilian population.
The Japanese created a defensive wall out of the mountainous terrain and the natural coral of Okinawa, creating tunnels, and even after pulling back from its initial well prepared defensive line toward the coast they still from Shuri line with sited and interlocking fields of fire made the U.S.army and Marine units pay dearly for every yard despite the unprecedented land and sea artillery support.
The use as the battle developed of both suicidal Kamikaze pilots and Banzai charges against prepared U.S. lines and the limits the Japanese soldier and Okinawan civilian population pushed themselves to was unbelievable.
The Battle cost both sides their ranking generals on the same day. General Simon Bolivar Buckner and General Mitsuru Ushijima.
I can not recommend any book on The Battle of Okinawa more highly than this.… (més)