



And choices they make in that single instant will change everything. But then the two of them collide in the middle of the battle. Hideki and Ray each fight their way across the island, surviving heart-pounding ambushes and dangerous traps. All he knows that the enemy is everywhere. This is Ray's first-ever battle, and he doesn't know what to expect - or if he'll make it out alive. Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American soldier. When the Second World War crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted to fight for the Japanese army. Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war.
