Credit Colorado Springs Gazette May 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The Forgotten Battle” by World War II veterans—was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Both American and Japanese forces were tirelessly fighting in a yearlong campaign, and both sides would suffer thousands of casualties. Mark Obmascik’s new book “The Storm on Our Shores,” tells the heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive story of two soldiers—a Japanese surgeon and an American sergeant—during that brutal battle in Alaska, in which the sergeant discovers the medic's revelatory and fascinating diary, which in turn changes our war-torn society’s perceptions of Japan.