The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers and the Forgotten Battle of World War II
✍ Scribed by Mark Obmascik
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 145167838X
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✦ Synopsis
"Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history --and from our country's most forbidding frontier. Deeply researched and feelingly told,The Storm on Our Shores is a heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption." --Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Desperate Ground
The heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive story of two World War II soldiers --a Japanese surgeon and an American sergeant--during a brutal Alaskan battle in which the sergeant discovers the medic's revelatory and fascinating diary that changed our war-torn society's perceptions of Japan.
May 1943. The Battle of Attu--called "The Forgotten Battle" by World War II veterans--was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Both American...