Forgotten war | Books | The Guardian
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings 674pp, Harper Press, 25 Five days after providing half the troops for the first wave of the D-Day landing in 1944, the Americans put 130,000 men ashore in the Marianas Islands in the Pacific, only 22,500 less than the whole Normandy assault force (and 20,000 more