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Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Robert Drury Publisher Comments In December 1944, Admiral William Bull Halsey was America's most popular and colorful naval hero. While supporting General Douglas MacArthur's famous I Shall Return invasion of the Philippines, he unwittingly sailed his undefeated Pacific Fleet into the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson Publisher Comments Elliot Carlson's biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the... (read more) Your price: $36.95 New - Hardcover
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Neptune's Inferno (11 Edition) by James D. Hornfischer Publisher Comments The Battle of Guadalcanal has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice, James D. Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945 (Bluejacket Books) by C Raymond Calhoun Publisher Comments The saga of a gallant fighting ship that took on a battleship, cruiser, and destroyer and was the last to leave the fray.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unrestricted Warfare: How a New Breed of Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II by James F Derose Publisher Comments 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 went to battle hamstrung by conservative peacetime training and plagued by defective torpedoes. Drawing... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Escape from the Deep: A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II by Alex Kershaw Publisher Comments In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface, while the Japanese... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War Beneath the Waves: A True Story of Courage and Leadership Aboard a World War II Submarine by Don Keith Publisher Comments The gripping story of heroism under the sea, from the national bestselling author of Final Patrol and U.S.S. Billfish In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the U.S.S. Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford Publisher Comments Douglas Ford introduces a new perspective on why the U.S. Navy carried out its Pacific campaigns in the manner it did as he explores the evolution of U.S. intelligence on the combat capabilities of the Japanese Navy. He contends that the U.S. Navy could... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato by Russell Spurr Publisher Comments Acclaimed by Critics, Historians, and Military Leaders the World Over... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton Publisher Comments Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the bestselling account of Americas worst naval disasterand of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Down To the Sea: an Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II (08 Edition) by Bruce Henderson Publisher Comments This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in World War II by Larry Colton Publisher Comments On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy Publisher Comments In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons. By the beginning of 1945, American pilots were shooting down Japanese planes more than... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'em: The Mysterious Loss of the WWII Submarine USS Gudgeon by Mike Ostlund Publisher Comments Revised and fully updated, the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War IIs most highly decorated submarines On April 7, 1944, the battle-hardened USS Gudgeon (SS-211) slowly pulled away from tiny Johnston Island, slipping beneath the waves... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cassell's Fields of Battle: Midway by Hugh Bicheno Publisher Comments Before Midway, the force of the Imperial Japanese Navy was almost unchallenged in the Pacific. This titanic naval battle was to turn the situation around, and give control to the US Navy, only six months after their appalling losses at Pearl Harbor - a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Flexible
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas Publisher Comments Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster by Richard F Newcomb Publisher Comments Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolishad just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. Heading westward, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. In twelve minutes, some 300 men went... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barrett Tillman Publisher Comments Provides an in-depth account of the June 1944 clash near the Marianas Islands between the American and Japanese carrier fleets, a confrontation that became the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history, drawing on numerous interviews with... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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U.S. Subs Down Under: Brisbane, 1942-1945 by David Jones Publisher Comments Two Australian writers who have studied the subject for years tell for the first time the complete story of the American Navy's submarine task force based in Brisbane, Australia, during World War II. Highly secret at the time the submarines' activities... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.95 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Undersea Warrior: The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo by Don Keith Publisher Comments From the national bestselling author of Final Patrol-a gripping story of heroism under the sea. In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a vicious depth charge... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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