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Hardcover Their Backs Against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II Book

ISBN: 030682471X

ISBN13: 9780306824715

Their Backs Against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II

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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,...

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