The Silver Waterfall. How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway, Hardback - Steven McGregor

Eighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of MidwayPublisher: PublicAffairs, U.S.Author(s): Steven McGregorIllu...

Cascada de argint. Cum a castigat America razboiul din Pacific la Midway - Brendan Simms, Steven McGregor

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. If you've wondered what more could be written about the Battle of Midway, here's the answer: Kevin Miller has delivered the perfect amalgam of vivi...

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

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...

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. The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

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. It's Bill Bryson meets Paul Theroux in Steven Lewis's hilarious review of his train journey across Australia on the Indian Pacific in the train's f...

Reducere. "Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." --The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contem...

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 &...

This book is is first comprehensive history of te United States' World War II generals between the wars, covering not only their lives and careers ...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

Precise, factual appraisals of each stage of the battles, all of which are placed within its strategic context.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuth...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressIllustration(s): colour illusNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 235 x 158 x 16Cover type: Hardba...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...

Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to t...

Reducere. Nu e disponibil

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...

Bartlett goes beyond Rorke's Drift to tell the largely forgotten story of how the Anglo-Zulu war was really won and lost.Publisher: Amberley Publis...

Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...

Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...

Publisher: Ronsdale PressAuthor(s): Doris GregoryIllustration(s): 40 b/w photosNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 14...

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 ...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..

The railways mobilised troops, transported munitions, evacuated children from cities and kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of trans...

Reducere. "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril, " wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World Wa...

Reducere. Description"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril, " wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history ...

In The Winter that Won the War, historian Greenwalt takes the reader on campaign in the year 1777 and through the winter encampment, detailing the ...

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the con...

Publisher: TwoMorrows PublishingAuthor(s): Steven FearsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 261 x 281 x 14Cover type: Paperback / ...

With exclusive interviews, a Signal Corps veteran tells the full story of how cryptography helped defeat the Axis powers, at Bletchley Park and bey...

Reducere. With a New Afterword by the AuthorThe New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many America...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Pam PreedyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 430Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 160 x 239 x 46Cov...

Reducere. Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achie...

Reducere. Now in paperback--the award-winning National Geographic book that presents the untold story of the invisible war behind the American Revolution. A ...

A first-person account of the myriad experiences of the modern soldier and military leader and of close combat, covering the author's 32 years of s...

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: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Chris DeRoseIllustration(s): Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph insertNumber of pages: 352Publicati...

This book reveals the behavior of economics professors based on the highly questionable incentive system they face. It is particularly critical of ...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Publisher: Stackpole BooksAuthor(s): Edward Farley AldrichIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & W...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling cou...

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