Turbo AI Book Summaries

Grenade hurls readers into 1945 Okinawa, where fourteen-year-old Hideki Kaneshiro joins a student battalion after the army presses him into service, hands him two grenades, and orders him to die for the Emperor. Across the beachhead, Marine Ray Majors splashes ashore for his first combat, expecting a clear enemy and a clean victory. Their routes thread through caves, rubble, and crossfire until they face each other—and the lies that sent them. Each boy chooses between orders and conscience as the island devours soldiers and civilians alike, and survival demands redefining who the enemy is.

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