The Pacific Campaign in World War II

Reducere. This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unp...

A masterful account of a vital five months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, ...

A masterful account of a vital four months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, ...

Reducere. Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of p...

DescriptionFollowing on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offe...

Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack,...

Reducere. "How They Won the War in the Pacific" provides a fascinating look at Naval Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his subordinate leaders--fighting men unde...

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...

Reducere. "The best book by far on the Pacific War" (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on...

Reducere. Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval batt...

Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive op...

This is the story of the amphibious march across the Pacific from theAleutians to Okinawa from the experiences of shipmates aboard the USS J. Frank...

DescriptionThe United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its prewar order of battle of sca...

DescriptionA brilliantly detailed visual representation of one of the greatest US warships, the USS Iowa, whose four decades in service took her fr...

Reducere. A different way to understand the magnitude of World War II. Countless books exist about the Second World War and in those can be found all of the ...

DescriptionAleutians 1942-43 is the full story of the forgotten battle to liberate American soil from the Japanese during World War II.It is often ...

Reducere. My Father's War is a story based on a diary my father wrote while serving as a young man in the United States Marine Corps during the Second Nicara...

Reducere. The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic o...

DescriptionA stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last...

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...

DescriptionThis second of two volumes continues the P-38 story by focusing on the later, mass-produced models of this historic fighter--P-38J throu...

Reducere. Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers...

Reducere. Discover the remarkable history of the Battle of Tarawa..."It's hell out there" was how one Marine described the assault on Tarawa, the U.S. Navy's...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the firebombing by both Americans and Japanese civilians in Tokyo *Includes online resources and a bibliog...

The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to defend against tanks. Anti-tank rifles became comm...

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Ra...

Reducere. George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Fo...