Reducere. In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year...
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Reducere. Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first publishe...
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Reducere. Air Admiral Marc Mitscher, who led the U.S. attack across the Pacific, is a legend in military circles for developing an entirely new concept of wa...
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Reducere. The story of one of the bloodiest battles in history, resulting in the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, is documented with a personal...
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Reducere. As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have...
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Reducere. In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention. Yet these 110-foot warships, manned mos...
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Reducere. Ward Carroll's electrifying debut, Punk's War, blew away readers, critics, and Navy veterans with an intriguing look at the modern military [that] ...
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Reducere. As paper navigational charts are replaced by vector images on computer screens, magnetic compasses enhanced by digital flux gate technology, and ch...
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Reducere. For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star m...
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Reducere. Written by the undisputed dean of U.S. denial and deception experts, Practise to Deceive is the most in-depth look at deception as a military strat...
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Reducere. Winner of the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award Winner of the W.Y. Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction Sometimes it takes years fo...
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Reducere. DescriptionFrom about the middle of the seventeenth century the Navy's administrators began to commission models of their ships that were accuratel...
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Reducere. This biography completes a trilogy on the three Navy fighter pilots--Jimmie Thach, Butch O'Hare, and Jimmy Flatley--who developed sweeping changes ...
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Reducere. Punk's War reveals the inner workings of the U.S. Navy as only an insider can. An authentic and riveting thriller, it is a highly acclaimed novel o...
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Reducere. On a mission over central Afghanistan, Punk is hit--and taken captive by the Taliban. And after he escapes, the challenge is not over. Because now ...
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Reducere. The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guada...
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Reducere. Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring singl...
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Reducere. The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812. Made famous by ...
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Reducere. Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War when first published in 1978, this book launched a spectacular writing career for...
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Reducere. Description"An award-winning aviation historian chronicles the Navy's efforts to develop a powerful sea-based strike force through the use of long-...
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Reducere. The Ship of the Line takes the best models from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to tell the story of the evolution of the ship of the lin...
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Reducere. Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese sur...
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Reducere. Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last U.S. Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. A narrative of courage, hope, and...
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Reducere. Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman becam...
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Reducere. In the 1950s and early 1960s a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere, reaching the...
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Reducere. Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examine...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Darrel D. WhitcombWhen his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old ...
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Reducere. This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence...
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Reducere. The Good Shepherd was described as one of the best novels of 1955. In it, C.S. Forester departs from the age-of-sail Hornblower genre that made him...
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Reducere. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffens...
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Reducere. Originally setting out to write the very book that he would have wanted to own as a young infantryman, the author penned On Tactics as a remedy for...
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Reducere. As Clausewitz observed, In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. The essence of war is a competitive reciprocal relatio...
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Reducere. Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...
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Reducere. The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibran...
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Reducere. My Men Are My Heroes introduces its readers to a living standard of Marine Corps esprit de corps and military decorum. Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal...
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Reducere. Completely revised and expanded since its French publication, Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1825-2016 is the first English-language ...
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Reducere. Also Available in an Audio Edition from Audible via AmazonIn Flight of the Intruder Jake Grafton is an A-6 Intruder pilot during the Vietnam War wh...
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Reducere. Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E in Marine Observation Squadron 6. Par...
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Reducere. Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first...
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Reducere. When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily f...
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Reducere. In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn th...
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Reducere. Aimed at the general reader with an interest in World War II and the U.S. Navy, this book looks at the massive salvage effort that followed the att...
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Reducere. The mission of the U.S. Navy's fast attack submarines during the Cold War was a closely guarded secret for many years, but this look back at the pe...
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Reducere. While it is a constant throughout history that conflict has inspired and engendered great art, it is a much rarer event for art to impact directly ...
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Reducere. The first new book on naval shiphandling in more than a generation, this guide helps beginning and intermediate shiphandlers learn and perfect a sk...
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Reducere. On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level...
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Reducere. During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty sh...
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Reducere. More than one million men and women have received the Purple Heart since its creation as an award "for military merit" in 1932. This book provides ...
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