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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxi, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out at the helm of the USS Essex, intent on rounding Cape Horn and hunting British whaling and merchant ships in the Pacific Ocean. Porter's odyssey took him to exotic isles and brought glory to the fledgling American navy, and in The Shining Sea, celebrated historian George C. Daughan tells the full story of this historic voyage for the first time. Porter's cruise is now regarded...
29) Pacific glory
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 389 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A thrilling, multilayered World War II adventure following two men and an unforgettable woman, from Pearl Harbor through the most dramatic air and sea battles of the war.
Author
Series
Pacific War trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide, ' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered...
33) No place to hide
Author
Series
Naval aviation trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 711 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this history of the last year of the war in the Pacific, historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio examine all the issues facing the Allies in their fight against the Japanese, and whether unconditional surrender was inevitable.
35) Iwo, 26 Charlie
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Deutermann follows a young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, who during the ferocious battle for the island is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling in coordinates for the ship to target with missiles. But Bishop is completely unready for what he will witness and experience: a literal hell, during which 26,000 Americans are killed in a fight to the very last man, which culminates in the blistering,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest naval battle in history; Douglas MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized in atomic blasts."--
38) War fish
Author
Series
Publisher
Pyramid Books
Pub. Date
1959.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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