The Final Storm : A Novel of the War in the Pacific (Paperback)

from sandbarjack

The Final Storm took me by surprise. I rarely read historical fiction because the there is generally a viewpoint to sell and I enjoy making mine from scratch. That is definitely not the case here. There are no overblown heroes from the "winning" side. Jeff Shaara tells a tale of people at war; le...

from clif_hiker

Yet another chapter of war written by one of the masters... Shaara captures the horror of one of the fiercest and costliest Pacific battles in WW II. He finishes the book with a dramatic tension building description of the dropping of the A-bomb, along with quite a bit of commentary on the ethics...

from Neilsantos

Mr Shaara comes through. He makes a theatre that I don't find especially interesting (the Pacific) entertaining and informational. I'm not sure if the focus on his Adams character is beneficial to the big story of the war, but it is essential to the story that Shaara is telling. Having this be th...

from exlibrismcp

Shaara proves again why he should be a top pick on everyone's list for military reading. He brings a "you are there" feeling to his writing that never once bogs down even while his soldiers are slogging through mud pits, digging foxholes, and facing long rainy nights on alert for the enemy. The F...

from Ronrose1

This story of the last two years of the war in the Pacific is embodied in the brutal struggle for Okinawa and the fateful use of the two atomic bombs to end the war with Japan. The voices in this historical novel are representative of those who were there. The commanders on both sides as well as ...