The island has more than eight hundredp tions, pill boxes, bunkers, gun emplacements. The tunnels on this island stretch for miles underground. How many american boys is it worth to take a place like that? And then when everything was crammed and crowded into one of the most congested battlefields in world history.
When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.