Island Infernos. The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944, Hardback - John C. Mcmanus

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): John C. McmanusNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 56Cover type: HardbackRede...

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

``A superb book--an American equivalent to John Keegan's The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.``--Dave G...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, ...

DescriptionOn October 27 1942, four "Long Lance" torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircra...

Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of General George Patton's death, a gripping firsthand account of World War II written by a ...

Poignant . . . Well worth the read. --Wall Street JournalIn December 1944, Frank Sisson deployed to Europe as part of General George S. Patton's fa...

It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Ber...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its s...

Reducere. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Is...

Reducere. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Is...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes a bibliography for further reading In the summer of 1866, Colonel Henry B. Carringt...

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...

A critical examination of the leadership successes and failures of senior American commanders during the largest battle fought by the U.S. Army in ...

Written by a renowned expert, this is the most detailed account to date of the fast carrier strike force, the force that brought Japan to its knees...

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

Pabay lies in Skye's Inner Sound, off the crofting village of Breakish and the small adjoining town of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of ...

As the Pacific War approached a crescendo, the clashes between swarming US Navy carrier aircraft, and the gigantic Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Yam...

Reducere. Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy...

Reducere. The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost one hundred strike aircraft. Brought togeth...

A controversial new study of the Red Army's irrecoverable casualties during the Second World WarPublisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Lev Lopu...

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the sur...

The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945 analyzes the Pacific War with a focus on America's participation in the conflict.Publisher: Taylor &...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fough...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): James A. FokNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 37Cover type: HardbackRede...

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. 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....

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Lauren HirshbergIllustration(s): 17 figures, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 386Collection: American Cro...

Reducere. Today only a select few know firsthand what it is like to feel their ship shudder from the blast of their own guns, watch enemy guns flash back, an...

The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army's largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American militar...

A in-depth look at the heroic fighting forces of the Second World War

A in-depth look at the heroic fighting forces of the Second World War

Reducere. After crushing Japanese naval power in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf, the U.S. moved to liberate the Philippines. Admiral Morison describes a series of...