Description"Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history--and from our country\'s most forbidding frontier.
It showed the common humanity on both s.
Tatsuguchi\'s diary was later translated and distributed among US soldiers.
In a devastating mountainside attack in Alaska, Laird was forced to make a fateful decision, one that saved him and his comrades, but haunted him for years.
Laird, a hardy, resilient underground coal miner, enlisted in the US Army to escape the crushing poverty of his native Appalachia.
Heartsick, wary of war, yet devoted to Japan, Tatsuguchi performed his duties and kept a diary of events as they unfolded--never knowing that it would be found by an American soldier named Dick Laird.
He loved America, but was called to enlist in the Imperial Army of his native Japan.
The doctor\'s name was Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi, a Hiroshima native who had graduated from college and medical school in California.
Included in this number was a Japanese medic whose war diary would lead a Silver Star-winning American soldier to find solace for his own tortured soul.
Both American and Japanese forces were tirelessly fighting in a yearlong campaign, and both sides would suffer thousands of casualties.
The Battle of Attu--called "The Forgotten Battle" by World War II veterans--was raging on the Aleutian Island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth.
May 1943.
Deeply researched and feelingly told, The Storm on Our Shores is a heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption." --Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Desperate Ground The heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive story of two World War II soldiers--a Japanese surgeon and an American sergeant--during a brutal Alaskan Battle in which the sergeant discovers the medic\'s revelatory and fascinating diary that changed our war-torn society\'s perceptions of Japan.
Description"Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history--and from our country\'s most forbidding frontier
