THE FINAL STORM: A NOVEL OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC

Book ID/图书代码： 01240011B44737

English Summary/英文概要： The Final Storm opens a new front in Jeff Shaara’s gripping chronicle of World War II as soldiers, sailors, and marines sacrifice all for one final push toward decisive victory in the fierce maelstrom of the Pacific theater.

As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japan’s empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself—the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle will feature some of the most vicious combat of the entire war, as American troops confront an enemy that would rather be slaughtered than experience the shame of surrender.

With a narrative dexterity befitting his status as a master storyteller, Shaara relates the story of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, a young marine whose brother Jesse has already earned his share of glory as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne in Europe; Admiral Chester Nimitz, who must unite rival army and marine commanders into a cooperative effort; General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., the American ground commander trying to live up to the legacy of his father, who led Confederate troops during the Civil War; and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island, who understands what Tokyo will not believe: that his own fight to the death will only delay the inevitable—as the Americans continue their advance toward the home islands and ultimate victory.

With the fights raging across the Pacific, a different kind of campaign is being waged in extraordinary secrecy: the development of a weapon so powerful, not even the scientists who build it know just what they are about to unleash. Colonel Paul Tibbets, one of the finest bomber pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps, is selected to lead the mission to drop the horrific new weapon on a Japanese city. As the new president, Harry S Truman, mulls his options, and a Japanese physician named Okiro Hamishita cares for patients at a clinic near the city of Hiroshima, citizens on the home front await the day of reckoning that everyone knows is coming.

A fitting conclusion to one of the most riveting sagas in military fiction, The Final Storm illuminates the heroism and sacrifice that defined the war in the Pacific, bringing the conflict to life as only Jeff Shaara can.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《最后的风暴》（The Final Storm）拉开了作者作为一名战士、水手，引人入胜的二战编年史，记录了太平洋战争之决定性的胜利。

诺曼底入侵之后欧洲的战争渐渐结束，美国开始全面攻击日本。1945年春，日本被迫撤回本土。美国对日本发动了最后一次大暗杀行动。作者凭其出色的讲故事本领，为我们透过双方的眼光再现冲绳人民的反抗事迹。东京不会相信，它自身斗争到死的决心只是起到了拖延的作用。

随着战争的烟火飘洋而过，一种不同的运动正在偷偷的萌芽。武器越来越先进，威力越来越厉害，就连制造它们的科学家也知道如何启动和使用。作为最令人跌宕起伏的收尾，作者借用英雄主义和牺牲精神来定义太平洋战争，同时指出了生活的矛盾。(兼职翻译-XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 杰夫•尚拉（Jeff Shaara），目前居于萨拉索塔，出生于新泽西一户意大利移民家庭，成长于佛罗里达州，毕业于佛罗里达州立大学，纽约时报畅销书作家，著作包括《钢铁浪潮》（The Steel Wave）、《驾驭浪潮》（The Rising Tide）等等。

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota.

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