{"id":194,"date":"2023-02-02T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:35:09","slug":"upcoming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/upcoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Operation Iceberg: Okinawa<\/em><\/strong> chronicles the southern sector of operations during this ferocious 82-day campaign whereby U.S. forces invade the Japanese island to establish a base for the invasion of mainland Japan.\u00a0This results in massive casualties for American, Japanese, and Okinawan civilians, and also proves to planners the extreme cost of invading the Japanese home islands.\u00a0This final, major battle of WWII sees intense fighting, heavy use of kamikaze attacks and a high civilian death toll.\u00a0This directly influences the decision to use atomic bombs to end the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-1568x2029.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Operation-Iceberg-Okinawa-cover-art-copy-scaled.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Front Cover<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Iceberg: Okinawa chronicles the southern sector of operations during this ferocious 82-day campaign whereby U.S. forces invade the Japanese island to establish a base for the invasion of mainland Japan.\u00a0This results in massive casualties for American, Japanese, and Okinawan civilians, and also proves to planners the extreme cost of invading the Japanese home islands.\u00a0This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/upcoming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upcoming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brittonpublishers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}