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                          ISBN:  0415191947
Title:  The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa : Literature and Memory
Author:  Michael S. Molasky
Publisher:  Routledge
Date Published:  October 1999
URL:  The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa : Literature and Memory
Format:  Trade Cloth


Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts Volume 1 ISBN:  0804820937
Title:  Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts Volume 1
Author:  Patrick McCarthy,Koryu Uchinadi,Yur McCarthy,Patrick McCarthy (Compiler),Yuriko McCarthy (Compiler)
Publisher:  Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
Date Published:  May 1999
URL:  Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts Volume 1
Format:  Trade Paper


Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts Volume 2 ISBN:  0804831475
Title:  Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts Volume 2
Author:  Patrick McCarthy,Koryu Uchinadi,Yur McCarthy,Patrick McCarthy (Compiler),Yuriko McCarthy (Compiler)
Publisher:  Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
Date Published:  May 1999
URL:  Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts Volume 2
Format:  Trade Paper


The Battle for Okinawa: A Japanese Officer ISBN:  0471120413
Title:  The Battle for Okinawa: A Japanese Officer's Eye-Witness Account of the Last Great Campaign of...
Author:  Hiromichi Yahara,Frank B. Gibney
Publisher:  Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published:  July 1995
URL:  The Battle for Okinawa: A Japanese Officer's Eye-Witness Account of the Last Great Campaign of...
Format:  Trade Cloth
A first-hand account of one of the bloodiest encounters in the war of the Pacific, written by the Japanese strategist who designed and carried out the campaign. Editor Frank Gibney's unique perspective of having been an officer in Okinawa, who interrogated Yahara following his capture, adds a fascinating dimesion to the account. Photos. Maps.


The Battle for Okinawa ISBN:  0471180807
Title:  The Battle for Okinawa
Author:  Hiromichi Yahara
Publisher:  Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published:  March 1997
URL:  The Battle for Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper
A first-hand account of one of the bloodiest encounters in the war of the Pacific, written by the Japanese strategist who designed and carried out the campaign. Editor Frank Gibney's unique perspective of having been an officer in Okinawa, who interrogated Yahara following his capture, adds a fascinating dimesion to the account. Photos. Maps.


From Omaha to Okinawa: The Story of the Seabees ISBN:  1557503486
Title:  From Omaha to Okinawa: The Story of the Seabees
Author:  William Bradford Huie,Foreword by Donald R. Noble
Publisher:  Naval Institute Press
Date Published:  April 1999
URL:  From Omaha to Okinawa: The Story of the Seabees
Format:  Trade Paper


The Ghosts of Okinawa ISBN:  499003595X
Title:  The Ghosts of Okinawa
Author:  Jayne A. Hitchcock
Publisher:  Shiba Hill Ltd.
Date Published:  August 1996
URL:  The Ghosts of Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


Building Warrior Spirit: With Gan Soku Tanden Riki ISBN:  096264840X
Title:  Building Warrior Spirit: With Gan Soku Tanden Riki
Author:  Robert Scaglione,William Cummins (Editor)
Publisher:  Person To Person Publishing Company, Incorporated
Date Published:  August 1993
URL:  Building Warrior Spirit: With Gan Soku Tanden Riki
Format:  Trade Paper


Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire ISBN:  0304351725
Title:  Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire
Author:  Simon Foster
Publisher:  Cassell
Date Published:  September 1999
URL:  Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire
Format:  Paper Text


Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II ISBN:  0140173897
Title:  Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II
Author:  Robert Leckie
Publisher:  Viking Penguin
Date Published:  June 1996
URL:  Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II
Format:  Trade Paper


Okinawa Dreams OK ISBN:  3931126110
Title:  Okinawa Dreams OK
Author:  Tony Barrell,With Rick Tanaka
Publisher:  Consort Bk
Date Published:  December 1996
URL:  Okinawa Dreams OK
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0967364205
Title:  Okinawa: Cold War Island
Author:  Chalmers Johnson
Publisher:  Japan Policy Research Institute
Date Published:  December 1999
URL:  Okinawa: Cold War Island
Format:  Trade Paper


Operation Iceberg ISBN:  0440221781
Title:  Operation Iceberg
Author:  Gerald Astor
Publisher:  Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Date Published:  May 1996
URL:  Operation Iceberg
Format:  Mass Market Paperbound
The brual, four-month conflict that preceded the Japanese surrender on J-J Day by a scant eight weeks, Operation Iceberg saw the fiercest kamikaze attack in the entire Pacific Theater of War. In this raw first-person account, Gerald Astor brings us the extraordinary experiences of the soldiers, pilots and other military personnel--on both sides of the battle lines--in their own words.


                          ISBN:  0791053709
Title:  The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, 1941-1945
Author:  Jonathan Gawne
Publisher:  Chelsea House Publishers
Date Published:  October 1999
URL:  The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, 1941-1945
Format:  Trade Cloth


The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, 1941-1945 ISBN:  185367253X
Title:  The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, 1941-1945
Author:  Jonathan Gawne
Publisher:  Stackpole Books
Date Published:  October 1996
URL:  The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, 1941-1945
Format:  Trade Paper


With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa ISBN:  0195067142
Title:  With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Author:  E. B. Sledge,Eugene B. Sledge (Illustrator),Paul Fussell (Illustrator)
Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Date Published:  September 1990
URL:  With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper
Based on notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his Bible, Eugene Sledge has written a devastingly powerful memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during WWII. John Keegan describes this stirring account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines as "one of the most arresting doceuments in war literature."


With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa ISBN:  1557507473
Title:  With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Author:  Eugene B. Sledge,Joseph H. Alexander (Introduction)
Publisher:  Naval Institute Press
Date Published:  April 1996
URL:  With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Format:  Trade Cloth


Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa ISBN:  0195124871
Title:  Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa
Author:  Susan Sered
Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Date Published:  December 1998
URL:  Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


Before the First Wave: The 3rd Armored Amphibian Tractor Battalion-Peleliu and Okinawa ISBN:  0897451716
Title:  Before the First Wave: The 3rd Armored Amphibian Tractor Battalion-Peleliu and Okinawa
Author:  Larry L. Woodard,Lori L. Daniel
Publisher:  Sunflower University Press
Date Published:  January 1994
URL:  Before the First Wave: The 3rd Armored Amphibian Tractor Battalion-Peleliu and Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  1575100118
Title:  The Buzzard Brigade; Torpedo Squadron Ten at War : Carrier Warfare in the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Okinawa with One of the Navy's Most Famous Avenger Squadrons
Author:  Stephen L. Moore,William J. Shinneman,Robert Gruebel
Publisher:  Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Incorporated
Date Published:  April 1996
URL:  The Buzzard Brigade; Torpedo Squadron Ten at War : Carrier Warfare in the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Okinawa with One of the Navy's Most Famous Avenger Squadrons
Format:  Cloth Text


Dq522: Diary of a Destroyer ISBN:  0964340305
Title:  Dq522: Diary of a Destroyer
Author:  Ron Surels
Publisher:  Valley Graphics, Incorporated
Date Published:  April 1996
URL:  Dq522: Diary of a Destroyer
Format:  Trade Cloth


Death Rattlers: Marine Squadron Vmf-323 over Okinawa ISBN:  0764309536
Title:  Death Rattlers: Marine Squadron Vmf-323 over Okinawa
Author:  William Wolf
Publisher:  Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Date Published:  May 1999
URL:  Death Rattlers: Marine Squadron Vmf-323 over Okinawa
Format:  Trade Cloth


                          ISBN:  0860083683
Title:  Food Habits of Teleostean Reef Fishes in Okinawa Island, Southern Japan
Author:  Mituhiko Sano,Makoto Shimizu,Yukio Nose
Publisher:  Columbia University Press
Date Published:  February 1985
URL:  Food Habits of Teleostean Reef Fishes in Okinawa Island, Southern Japan
Format:  Trade Cloth


                          ISBN:  0934052107
Title:  History of the Okinawans in North America
Author:  Ben Kobashigawa (Translator)
Publisher:  Ucla Asian Am Studie
Date Published:  January 1988
URL:  History of the Okinawans in North America
Format:  Trade Cloth


Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill ISBN:  0275947262
Title:  Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill
Author:  James H. Hallas
Publisher:  Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published:  April 1996
URL:  Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill
Format:  Trade Cloth


                          ISBN:  0275287106
Title:  Public Diplomacy and Political Change, Four Case Studies : Okinawa, Peru, Czechoslovakia, Guinea
Author:  George Henderson,S. W. Barton,Johannes A. Binnendijk,Carolyn E. Setlow
Publisher:  Irvington Publishers
Date Published:  June 1973
URL:  Public Diplomacy and Political Change, Four Case Studies : Okinawa, Peru, Czechoslovakia, Guinea
Format:  Trade Cloth


                          ISBN:  1571683275
Title:  Rising Sun Sinking: Okinawa
Author:  Jim Boan
Publisher:  Sunbelt Media, Inc.
Date Published:  April 2000
URL:  Rising Sun Sinking: Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


Secrets of Uechi Ryu Karate: And the Mysteries of Okinawa ISBN:  0965167119
Title:  Secrets of Uechi Ryu Karate: And the Mysteries of Okinawa
Author:  Alan Dollar,Robert Davidson (Editor),Alice Dollar (Editor),Foreword by Ric Martin
Publisher:  Cherokee Publishing
Date Published:  May 1996
URL:  Secrets of Uechi Ryu Karate: And the Mysteries of Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Dropping of the Atom Bomb ISBN:  0395599245
Title:  Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Dropping of the Atom Bomb
Author:  George Feifer
Publisher:  Ticknor & Fields
Date Published:  April 1992
URL:  Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Dropping of the Atom Bomb
Format:  Trade Cloth
Tennozan offers a remarkable account of the battle of Okinawa, the largest land-sea-air engagement in history. It examines the disastrous collision of three disparate cultures--American, Japanese, and Okinawan--and provides the context for understanding the decision to drop the atomic bomb. 41 photographs.


                          ISBN:  0937426121
Title:  Textile Art of Okinawa: Collection of Okinawa Prefectural Museum
Author:  Reiko Mochinaga Brandon,Barbara B. Stephan
Publisher:  Honolulu Academy of the Arts
Date Published:  July 1999
URL:  Textile Art of Okinawa: Collection of Okinawa Prefectural Museum
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0786403306
Title:  Too Young the Heroes: A World War II Marine's Account of Facing a Veteran Enemy at Guadalcanal, the Solomons and Okinawa
Author:  George Lince
Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers
Date Published:  April 1996
URL:  Too Young the Heroes: A World War II Marine's Account of Facing a Veteran Enemy at Guadalcanal, the Solomons and Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa ISBN:  0195124863
Title:  Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa
Author:  Susan Starr Sered
Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Date Published:  December 1998
URL:  Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa
Format:  Cloth Text


                          ISBN:  0792458591
Title:  WW II: Okinawa; The Last Battle; The Last Battle
Author:  Edgar Edgar Appleman,Roy E. Appleman
Publisher:  Bantam Books, Incorporated
Date Published:  September 1993
URL:  WW II: Okinawa; The Last Battle; The Last Battle
Format:  Trade Cloth


                          ISBN:  0516447653
Title:  Battle of Okinawa
Author:  Conrad R. Stein
Publisher:  Children's Press
Date Published:  October 1985
URL:  Battle of Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0824811305
Title:  Brief History of Okinawa: Based on the Omoro Soshi
Author:  Mitsugu Sakihara
Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, The
Date Published:  January 1995
URL:  Brief History of Okinawa: Based on the Omoro Soshi
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0824811305
Title:  Brief History of Okinawa: Based on the Omoro Soshi
Author:  Mitsugu Sakihara
Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, The
Date Published:  January 1995
URL:  Brief History of Okinawa: Based on the Omoro Soshi
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0516447653
Title:  Battle of Okinawa
Author:  Conrad R. Stein
Publisher:  Children's Press
Date Published:  October 1985
URL:  Battle of Okinawa
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0792458591
Title:  WW II: Okinawa; The Last Battle; The Last Battle
Author:  Edgar Edgar Appleman,Roy E. Appleman
Publisher:  Bantam Books, Incorporated
Date Published:  September 1993
URL:  WW II: Okinawa; The Last Battle; The Last Battle
Format:  Trade Cloth


Iwo Jima and Okinawa ISBN:  089686569X
Title:  Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Author:  Wallace B. Black,Jean F. Blashfield
Publisher:  Silver Burdett Press
Date Published:  December 1992
URL:  Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Format:  Library Binding
Recounts the brutal battles between the U.S. troops and the Japanese on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa during World War II.


                          ISBN:  0553271172
Title:  Marine at War
Author:  Davis Russell,Brent Ashabranner
Publisher:  Bantam Books, Incorporated
Date Published:  May 1988
URL:  Marine at War
Format:  Mass Market Paperbound


                          ISBN:  1854093533
Title:  Okinawa 1945; Final Assault on the Empire
Author:  Simon Foster
Publisher:  Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated
Date Published:  August 1996
URL:  Okinawa 1945; Final Assault on the Empire
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  1557290156
Title:  Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas
Author:  Oshiro Tatsushiro,Higashi Mineo
Publisher:  University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies
Date Published:  December 1989
URL:  Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0870224506
Title:  Okinawan Religion: Belief, Ritual, and Social Structure
Author:  William P. Lebra
Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, The
Date Published:  March 1995
URL:  Okinawan Religion: Belief, Ritual, and Social Structure
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0878082301
Title:  On the Threshold of the Closed Empire; Mid-19th Century Missions in Okinawa
Author:  Edward E. Bollinger
Publisher:  William Carey Library Publishers
Date Published:  January 1991
URL:  On the Threshold of the Closed Empire; Mid-19th Century Missions in Okinawa
Format:  Paper Text


                          ISBN:  0806253207
Title:  Picket Ships at Okinawa
Author:  Paul Thurman
Publisher:  Carlton Press, Corporation
Date Published:  January 1995
URL:  Picket Ships at Okinawa
Format:  Trade Cloth


                          ISBN:  096411660X
Title:  Remembering Billy: The Story of a West Texas Marine, His Friends, His Family, and His Sacrifice - Told by Those Who Knew Him
Author:  Richard Havens (Editor)
Publisher:  Flatland Publishing
Date Published:  January 1995
URL:  Remembering Billy: The Story of a West Texas Marine, His Friends, His Family, and His Sacrifice - Told by Those Who Knew Him
Format:  Trade Cloth


                          ISBN:  0395700663
Title:  Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
Author:  George Feifer
Publisher:  Ticknor & Fields
Date Published:  April 1994
URL:  Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
Format:  Trade Paper
Now in paperback and featuring a new introduction by the author, Tennozan is a brilliant account of the battle of Okinawa, the largest land-sea-air engagement in history. "First rate military history enriched by the . . . understanding of what war does to average people."--Detroit Free Press. "A penetrating study."--San Francisco Chronicle.


                          ISBN:  0870405977
Title:  Traditional Karate-Do: Okinawa Goju Ryu
Author:  Morio Higaonna
Publisher:  Japan Publications (U. S. A.), Incorporated
Date Published:  November 1990
URL:  Traditional Karate-Do: Okinawa Goju Ryu
Format:  Trade Paper


Traditional Karate-Do ISBN:  0870408488
Title:  Traditional Karate-Do
Author:  Morigiro Higaonna,Morihiro Higaonna
Publisher:  Japan Publications (U. S. A.), Incorporated
Date Published:  November 1990
URL:  Traditional Karate-Do
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0870405969
Title:  The Traditional Karate-Do-Okinawa Goju Ryu: Performances of the KATA
Author:  Morio Higaonna
Publisher:  Japan Publications (U. S. A.), Incorporated
Date Published:  May 1985
URL:  The Traditional Karate-Do-Okinawa Goju Ryu: Performances of the KATA
Format:  Trade Paper


Traditional Karate-Do : Okinawa Goju Ryu : The Fundamental Techniques ISBN:  0870405950
Title:  Traditional Karate-Do : Okinawa Goju Ryu : The Fundamental Techniques
Author:  Morio Higaonna
Publisher:  Japan Publications (U. S. A.), Incorporated
Date Published:  May 1985
URL:  Traditional Karate-Do : Okinawa Goju Ryu : The Fundamental Techniques
Format:  Trade Paper


                          ISBN:  0824811747
Title:  Water and Survival in an Island Environment: Challenge of Okinawa
Author:  Nobuya Miwa,Hiroshi Yamauchi,Dai Morita
Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, The
Date Published:  March 1995
URL:  Water and Survival in an Island Environment: Challenge of Okinawa
Format:  Cloth Text

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