Alms for Oblivion: Sunset on the Pacific War, Paperback - Peter Kemp

Reducere. Asia, 1945. The War in Europe is over. Undeterred, the Japanese Empire fights on. With millions of loyal troops at its disposal and holdings that e...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one explosion, blackmail, gamb...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, ...

Alms for Oblivion is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in commo...

After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway ...

Reducere. In February 1942, Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the creation of a new unit designated the 1st Mari...

Reducere. My life as a Japanese 'boy sailor' in the Pacific War. Due to Japan's war time General Mobilization Law, many boys of about 14 years of age who had...

Reducere. Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides o...

Reducere. December 8th, 1941 marked the start of the full-scale invasion of the Philippines during World War 2. With the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula an...

Reducere. Flying P-38s, Jerry Johnson shot down 24 aircraft in 265 combat missions in the Pacific theater. At the age of only twenty-four, he commanded the h...

'Revill's fourth merry outing... is all highly entertaining.' Sunday Times

Reducere. While 52 U.S. submarines were sunk in the Pacific, the Japanese took prisoners of war from the survivors of only seven of these lost submarines. Pr...

Offers an account of the closing stages of the war against Japan, victory being due to the contribution of the British Pacific Fleet. This book is ...

Reducere. The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shatterin...

Reducere. This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious--yet largely forgotten--b...

The illustrated diary of Japanese Navy floatplane pilot Warrant Officer Nemoto Kumesako, dating from the early months of the Pacific War, presented...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jonathan MarshallNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19Cover type...

State-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender, by distinguished historians of differing national perspectives...

The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, an...

Personal accounts by individual Japanese servicemen.Illustrations: 80 black and white illustrations

Reducere. We have a short time on this earth. What will you do with it? Your choices affect others who are watching...family, friends, co-workers, even child...

Reducere. THE US NAVY'S ON-THE-ROOF GANG: VOLUME 2 - WAR IN THE PACIFIC is an historical novel based on the unknown true-life story of the "On-The-Roof Gang....

Reducere. An up-close look at the battles of World War II for kids ages 8 to 12Help kids learn all about World War II--right from the front lines. This fasci...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Keith Warren LloydIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including B...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Elise HooperNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 201 x 27Cover type: Paper...

South Pacific Air War Volume Four chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific in the critical period between 19 June and 8 September 1942. It ca...

Reducere. THE US NAVY'S ON-THE-ROOF GANG: VOLUME 2 - WAR IN THE PACIFIC is an historical novel based on the unknown true-life story of the "On-The-Roof Gang....

Reducere. Dirty Eddie's War is the true account of the war-time experiences of Harry Andrew March, Jr., captured by way of diary entries addressed to his bel...

Reducere. HOLLYWOOD...as seen through the eyes of its most infamous garden.When Marcus Adler's father runs him out of Pennsylvania, he can think of only one ...

DescriptionDuring the Pacific War between the U.S. and Imperial Japanese navies, the author's father, Francis Gelzheiser, deployed with Motor Torpe...

He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment o...

DescriptionMass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18. At the end of the ...

The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contributio...

Contributor(s): Author: Sean M. JudgeEditor: Jonathan M. HouseAuthor: Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on ...

DescriptionThe only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an ...

Reducere. I fought like mad as the Japanese stormed down the hill yelling "Malians you die, Malians you die." I emptied my rifle magazine, twice. Out of ammo...

DescriptionThis second volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific for the two crucial months of March and April 1942 when a deadly strug...