
Fleet on the Waves
by (u. S.) James D. Hornfischer
About This Novel
From 1944 to 1945, from the central Pacific to the Japanese mainland, the United States crossed the threshold of total war. In the Battle of the Mariana Islands, the Fifth Fleet headed west, leading Japan's entire aircraft carrier fleet and destroying Japanese strongholds; the Marines landed on Saipan, which had tens of thousands of defense troops, and successively invaded Saipan, Guam, and Tinian in just two months; the Army Air Force airdropped napalm bombs on a large scale for the first time and attacked Tokyo, plunging the doomed enemy forces into a sea of hellish fire. A series of battles helped the US military open an air corridor to Japan, allowing the US military to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland - the first time in human history that nuclear weapons were used in war. Based on authoritative academic research, a large number of first-hand materials and personal narratives, Hohenfischer used his cinematic style and keen insight to record the final scene of World War II that changed the destiny of the world.
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