Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II by Stephen Harding

Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II

Stephen Harding

288 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional inspiring sad slow-paced
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On August 18, 1945 -- three days after Japan announced it would cease hostilities and surrender -- U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. Just six days after his twentieth birthday, T...

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