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Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Alan Armstrong Publisher Comments The untold story of a plan that would have prevented Pearl Harbor--and perhaps World War... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover 
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Grove Great Lives) by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly Publisher Comments In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China by Jack Samson Publisher Comments When a sickly, half-deaf, forty-seven-year-old retired U.S. Army Air Corps Captain went to China in 1937 to survey Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Air Force, little did the world know this would be the man to stem the Japanese tide in the Far East. Almost... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Duel #08: P-40 Warhawk VS Ki-43 Oscar: China 1944-45 by Carl Molesworth Synopsis Known for the distinctive "sharkmouths" decoration on their noses, P-40 fighters first saw combat in China during World War II.Their most common adversary was the Japanese Nakajima Ki-43, nicknamed "Oscar." Carl Molesworth describes and explains the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn by Peter Moreira Publisher Comments Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941. The husband-and-wife team of celebrity literati intended to report on the China-Japan war while honeymooning in the... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Vinegar Joe's: Campaign for Burma by Nathan N Prefer Synopsis Bitterly disappointed that the British had failed to take offensive action in northern Burma to help open a land route from India to China, American general Joseph Vinegar Joe Stilwell decided it was time to take matters into his own land.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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We Gave Our Today: Burma 1941-45 by William Fowler Publisher Comments Nearly a million strong by 1944, the British 14th Army fought and ultimately conquered the Japanese forces that invaded Burma and strove to break through into India. But the victory was hard won, with great suffering along the way. With priority given to... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Forgotten Air Force: The Royal Air Force in the War Against Japan 1941-1945 by Henry Probert Synopsis Recalling and explaining the achievements of the Royal Air Force in the Far East, this book pays them their rightful tribute. The history covers, among other things, the problems of the 1930s as they affected the RAF in the Far East, and the sad tale of... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive by Richard Starks Publisher Comments Set against the majestic yet unforgiving Himalayan landscape of World War II Tibet-an unknown and tightly sealed land deeply suspicious of foreigners--LOST IN TIBET recounts the taut adventure of five American airmen facing the greatest challenge of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Aviation Elite Units #31: 23rd Fighter Group: Chennault's Sharks by Carl Molesworth Publisher Comments Staffed with inexperienced USAAF pilots and led by a handful of seasoned veterans of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), the 23rd FG was formed in the field at Kunming, in China, on July 4, 1942 and flew combat missions that same day. The group's three... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944-45 (World War II Stories) by Peter Haining Publisher Comments General W. J. "Bill" Slim's bloody and fraught victory over the Japanese on the mainland would not have been possible without the springboard provided by a remarkable assortment of army and navy men. In this thoroughly researched and accessible analysis,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China's... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II by George Macdonald Fraser Publisher Comments George MacDonald Fraser--beloved for his series of "Flashman" historical novels--offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers a first-hand... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost by Jonathan Fenby Publisher Comments With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive new biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of nationalist China?s Generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.75 Used - Hardcover
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Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II by Brendan I Koerner Publisher Comments An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dragon's War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947 by Maochun Yu Book News Annotation Following the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931, frequent military clashes between the Japanese and the Chinese erupted in full-scale war in 1937. Facing a technologically superior enemy, the Chinese turned to foreign powers to provide it with... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $22.50 Used - Hardcover
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Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II by Brendan I. Koerner Publisher Comments Part history, part thriller, Now the Hell Will Start tells the astonishing tale of Herman Perry, the soldier who sparked the greatest manhunt of World War II — and who became that war's unlikeliest folk hero. A true story of murder, love, and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune by Oliver Lindsay Publisher Comments The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945 is illuminated by the remarkable personal story of John Harris. An architectural student, he was pitched into battle as a subaltern in the Royal Engineers and was a prisoner of the Japanese for four years. His powerful... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.25 New - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945, by Christopher Bayly Publisher Comments In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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