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Pacific Crucible
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Ian W. Toll |
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the… |
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War beneath the waves
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Don Keith |
In November 1943, a young officer named Charlie Rush drew duty on the USS Billfish, a submarine in the Pacific. While the Billfish was on war patrol in the Makassar Strait off Borneo, a Japanese task… |
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Darkest Hour
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Bruce Gamble |
As the Japanese expanded their Empire across the Pacific in World War II, a small force of 1,500 Australian soldiers and medical personnel were sent to the island of Rabul. This book tells the story… |
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Battleship Yamato
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Jan Morris coast to coast |
"An extraordinary--and strikingly illustrated--reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful wa… |
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Twilight of the Gods
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Ian W. Toll |
The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (Evan Thomas). Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the h… |
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Joe Rochefort's War
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Elliot Carlson,Donald Showers |
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Kaiten
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Michael Mair,Joy Waldron |
"In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten--a man… |
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Silent victory
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Clay Blair |
With the content of an authoritative reference and the excitement of a thriller, this history of the U.S. submarine war is one of the most informative and entertaining books written on the Pacific ca… |
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Battleground Atlantic
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Richard N. Billings |
In June, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes sank a Japanese submarine called the I-52 in the Atlantic, an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52 was to return to Japan with the lethal ingredient… |
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A battle history of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945
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Paul S. Dull |
The first non-Japanese language battle history of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II to recount the war in the Pacific as the Japanese saw and officially recorded it. |
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