Their Backs against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II Classics_Gift_Guide Praise for All the Stars

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Their Backs against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II Classics_Gift_Guide Praise for All the StarsIn the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered the next day, thirty dead enemies were piled around him. The Battle of Saipan lasted twenty five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes