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Following his fictional character, marine clay adams, shaara avoids on of the weaknesses of historical fiction, stick figures of real people become novel devices. The best of shaaras books on wwii, the final storm paints a vivid picture of the ugly struggle on okinawa near the end of the war. A novel of the war in the pacific by jeff shaara website is a historical fiction novel which focuses on americas. Read the final storm a novel of the war in the pacific by jeff shaara available from rakuten kobo. Jeff shaara is the new york times bestselling author of a chain of thunder, a blaze of glory, the final storm, no less than victory, the steel wave, the rising tide, to the last man, the glorious cause, rise to rebellion, and gone for soldiers, as well as gods and generals and the last full measuretwo novels that complete the civil war. It covers the invasion of okinawa as seen from several viewpoints. This novel, the final storm, is a followup volume to shaara s very good trilogy focusing on world war 2 as it developed in africa and in europe.
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