SAKISHIMA And Back : Where Splendid Hearts May Go

This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This copy has been signed by the author on the fep where there is a small label of a previous owner. This book was written by a serving officer on HMS Indefatigable, the first to be attacked by a Japanese Kamikaze. Sakishima Gunto is a group of islands to the south west of Okinawa. During the invasion of Okinawa on the 1st April 1945, it was the task of the British Pacific Fleet to make and keep the the airstrips on the Sakishima Gunto inoperable. Like the Forgotten Army in Burma, Task Force 57 became known as the Forgotten Fleet. The British and Commonwealth sailors and Fleet Air Arm aicrews had already experienced a busy war in the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Now they fought the last battle alongside the Americans to secure "Peace in our time2. One man's story of these momentous events is greatley enhanced by the recollections of over fifty of his shipmates. Though factual, this is not an historical record, but a human story full of feeling which describes the lives of brave young men who just wanted to get the job over and go home to work for a better world.…