Saipan 1944: The Most Decisive Battle of the Pacific War, Paperback - John Grehan

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

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...

One of the most important battles of the Second World War. The four-day battle resulted in the loss of all four Japanese aircraft carriers, the US ...

Reducere. "A gripping account of one of the most important battles in the Pacific war." - ReviewerA powerful read about the Saipan invasion which resulted in...

On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assiste...

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...

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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...

Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands War, April-June 1982Publisher: John Blake Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Nigel ElyIllustratio...

DescriptionThe story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple H...

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 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...

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

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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...

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Reducere. The first US offensive of World War II began with no fanfare early on August 7, 1942. But, before it ended six months later with the first US land ...

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. On February 19, 1945, nearly 70, 000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately ...

Reducere. From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of -fighting, Amer...

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...

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

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, ...

DescriptionArmy Air Force pilot Jim Muri flew his torpedo-equipped B-26 bomber on a daring mission of survival that helped win the Battle of Midway...

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. The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest...

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...

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...

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DescriptionGerman army deficiencies are often cited as the reason for the failure of the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region of France, ...

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...