One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa

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	• One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa John Wukovits NAL Trade, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Human Factor laid bare...

Peruse all the technical manuals, strategic narratives and overall battle histories you'd like. Then a book like "One Square Mile of Hell" comes along and takes you to the inner hearts and minds of those who participated in the fullest measure of devotion to their country and it's people, and the cause of Freedom. Measures of devotion that took them to places like Tarawa, where dreams of the future can be so quickly and terribly whisked away. To know the childhoods, lives and aspirations of the men who waded ashore applies an emotional attachment you cannot deny upon learning their fates or futures. Their story, so tenderly and eloquently put by John Wukovits, will move you to tears.

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I Now Know...

Based upon the The Ratings and Reviews of this book, I figured I would broaden my knowledge of the WW2 battles most Americans dont often hear of. Battle of the Bulge, Normandy, Midway We all hear about and rightfully so.
Tho I am ashamed being an American I never heard of the Island of Tarawa and its contibution to victory against Japan in the Pacific.

I must say It was a great read, altho horrific in how Men lost and how they sacrificed there lives for their country.
The books details on the Marines approach to the island could make you break out in a sweat. It was so intense and brutal.

I am sad to say I dont think we will ever see this kind of courage and dedication in the USA again.
The Men of WW2 were one of a kind and to this I am grateful. For those who gave the ultimate sacrifice so others could appreciate freedom.
To all those who served as well, Thank You!!
Freedom isn't Free!
READ this BOOK America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa

Well researched and written. It was especially meaningful for me because my older brother fought and was wounded at Tarawa. He was in the 1st Bn, 8th Marines that came ashore on D+2 and had to wade in across 800 yards of the lagoon because there were no more Amtracs to take them in. The Navy coxswain of his boat panicked and said this is as far as I go. When he dropped the ramp the Marines stepped off in to 15 feet of water (the Higgins Boat had a draft of only 4 feet!). My brother went right to the bottom, but he was a good swimmer. He dropped all his gear and came to the surface. With only the clothes on his back and his helmet on his head he started wading in toward the battle. Some of the men in his boat never came to the surface. He made for the pier and when he reached the seawall he picked up a rifle and ammo from a dead Marine and got back into the fight. He was wounded the next day.

My only criticism of Mr. Wurvitz's book was the short narrative he gave to that second day of carnage when the Marines of the "Hollywood Eighth" waded ashore through the lagoon. That day and the courage of those Marines as they kept coming through the withering Jap fire is a story all its own.

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This could be a movie

I really enjoyed this book. It was like the Marine move I never saw but that needed to be made. If your a person who likes to read about the Marines in the Pacific, this book is a must!

Required Reading

Being a former Marine and Central Catholic graduate this book has a special meaning. It brings to light the sacrifices made by Americas young men at the time, and describes in detail the conditions that the individual Marines lived through daily. When I bought this book I expected to get a better understanding of why the island of Tarawa was so important, and I got that and more. I submit that it should be required reading at Central Catholic for the students there now, and or for all young High School students. The only thing missing in this book is the odor of the battle field, however it is described in graphic detail. A must read for any True American.

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In November 1943, the men of the 2nd Marine Division watched as bombardments destroyed the Japanese defenses on an islet in the Tarawa atoll. But when the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their protective bunkers and began one of the most brutal encounters of the war.

During the ensuing three days of non-stop fighting, the entire island was transformed into an all-encompassing kill zone in which combatants found themselves mixed together in a chaotic hell of crossfires, where there was no possibility of retreat-because there was nowhere to retreat to.

Drawn from sources such as participants' letters, diaries, and interviews with survivors, this is the riveting true account of a battle between two determined foes, neither of whom would ever look at each other the same way again.

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