From Library Journal: "After completing his trilogy on World War II in Europe (The Rising Tide; The Steel Wave; No Less Than Victory), Shaara turns his considerable talents to the war in the Pacific. His new book begins with the invasion of Okinawa and the long, terrible, and incredibly bloody campaign to subdue the island, which is garrisoned by nearly 100,000 Japanese all willing to fight to the last man. The book ends with the cataclysmic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan's final surrender. As with his previous historical novels, Shaara uses real people as his protagonists and develops their characters in a manner that is extremely plausible and realistic. Generals and admirals from both sides are portrayed, as are the grunts, who do the actual fighting. Incredibly, Shaara even portrays Japanese survivors of both Okinawa and Hiroshima. Like his father, Michael, the author of the classic Civil War novel The Killer Angels, Shaara has mastered this half-fact, half-fiction historical genre. His "novels" are not only educational but also very readable. Highly recommended."