《地狱的熔炉》内容简介
1945年4月1日，冲绳岛战役正式开始。83天后的6月22日，日本守军停止了一切有组织的抵抗，战役宣告结束。近5万美军和10余万日军伤亡，此外还有12.5万冲绳平民死于战火。一名老兵竭力解释他目睹的一切，称这场战役为“地狱的熔炉”。冲绳岛之外，在不到三个月的时间里，世界也发生了不可逆转的变化：罗斯福总统去世了；欧洲战争结束；美国对日本本土作战的兴趣已经减弱，杜鲁门总统希望使用其他手段来结束战争——毫无疑问，那就是原子弹。
冲绳岛战役经历了血雨腥风的83天，战斗之惨烈也渐渐达到无以复加的程度，丘吉尔因此称之为“战争史中最激烈最著名的战役之一”。要想透彻地讲述这段历史，就必须采取多视角的方法——从那些在狭小机舱内驾驶自杀式飞机咆哮赴死的飞行员的视角，从那些在燃烧得令人窒息的舰船炮塔内依然坚守岗位的水兵的视角，从那些在污水没半的散兵坑内躲避敌军炮火、身旁全是污秽和尸骸的士兵的视角。不同立场、不同视角的描述相互交叠，共同呈现了真实的冲绳战场。基于这些亲历者、幸存者的回忆及相关档案研究，屡获殊荣的历史学家索尔·大卫全景式再现了这段血腥残酷、令人心碎的历史，将人们带回那个炮火纷飞的地狱般的熔炉。
作者简介
索尔·大卫（SaulDavid）
历史学家、节目主持人、作家，现为英国白金汉大学军事史教授，皇家历史学会会员。著有多部虚构类和非虚构类作品，尤其在军事历史领域作品颇丰，广受读者好评。索尔·大卫是展现历史的大师，其作品气势宏大，叙述紧张，引人入胜，多次入围各类年度榜单。
张帆
毕业于吉林大学，主要从事科普书籍、人文社科书籍的翻译工作。已出版译著《生存在环境中》。
The Melting Pot of Hell
On April 1, 1945, the Battle of Okinawa officially began. Eighty-three days later, on June 22, the Japanese defenders stopped all organized resistance and the battle was over. Nearly 50,000 American and more than 100,000 Japanese troops were killed or wounded, in addition to 125,000 Okinawan civilians. One veteran, struggling to explain what he had witnessed, called the battle "the crucible of hell." Beyond Okinawa, the world changed irreversibly in less than three months: President Roosevelt was dead; The end of the European war; American interest in fighting on Japanese soil had waned, and President Truman wanted to use other means to end the war - the atomic bomb, no doubt.
The Battle of Okinawa lasted 83 bloody days, and the intensity of the fighting gradually reached an unprecedented level, so Churchill called it "one of the fiercest and most famous battles in the history of war." To tell this story thoroughly, it is necessary to take a multi-perspective approach - from the perspective of the pilots who flew suicide planes to their deaths in cramped cabins, from the perspective of the sailors who held their posts in the stiflingly burning ship turrets, from the perspective of the soldiers who dodging enemy fire in a half-sewered foxhole surrounded by filth and corpses. The descriptions of different positions and perspectives overlap each other to present the real battlefield of Okinawa. Based on the memories of these witnesses, survivors, and archival research, award-winning historian Saul David's panoramic reconstruction of this bloody, brutal, heartbreaking history takes people back to the hellfire.
About the author
SaulDavid
Historian, presenter and author, is Professor of Military History at the University of Buckingham and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has written a number of fiction and non-fiction works, especially in the field of military history, and has been widely acclaimed by readers. Saul David is a master of history, with dramatic, compelling narratives that have made many annual lists.
Hoist a sail
Graduated from Jilin University, mainly engaged in the translation of popular science books, humanities and social science books. He has published and translated "Living in the Environment".
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