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Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
by Alex Kershaw  Publisher Comments By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy...
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Return to Midway
by Robert D Ballard Publisher Comments It has been called "the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar." On June 4, 1942, near a tiny island 1,500 miles from Hawaii, the course of the Pacific War changed dramatically. Before the battle of Midway the forces of Imperial Japan seemed unstoppable....
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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 The true story of one of the greatest and most decisive conflicts in the history of naval warfare-from an award-winning author. In June, 1944, American and Japanese carrier fleets made their way through the Philippine Sea, both hoping to take control of...
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A Tale of Two Subs: An Untold Story of World War II, Two Sister Ships, and Extraordinary Heroism
by Jonathan Mccullough Publisher Comments On November 19, 1943, the submarine USS Sculpin, under attack by the Japanese, slid below the waves for the last time in what would become one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. Naval history. Not only did several crewmembers survive the sinking - an...
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
by Jonathan Parshall Publisher Comments Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony...
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
by Evan Thomas Publisher Comments Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, the macho, gallant...
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Wolf Pack: The American Submarine Strategy That Helped Destroy Japan
by Steven Trent Smith Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307) and index....
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
by James Hornfischer Publisher Comments “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts...
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Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the World's Biggest Battleship
by Akira Yoshimura Publisher Comments Admiral lsoroku Yamamoto, the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, said that the three great follies of the world were the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, and the battleship Musashi. Yamamoto understood that sheer size and firepower would not...
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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 A harrowing, adrenaline-charged account of America's worst naval disaster -- and 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 Japanese submarine. An estimated...
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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 Halsey’s Typhoon is the story of World War II’s most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of...
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Pacific Campaign: The U.S.-Japanes Naval War 1941-1945
by Dan Van Der Vat Publisher Comments Using previously neglected archives of firsthand accounts, Dan van der Vat interweaves eyewitness testimony with sharp, analytic narrative in a vivid account of the war in the Pacific. Filled with startling new insights, he examines strategic and...
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Campaign #163: Leyte Gulf 1944: The World's Greatest Sea Battle
by Bernard Ireland Publisher Comments Leyte Gulf was a key victory for the United States: its scale dwarfed previous sea conflicts and its result created an opportunity for the US forces to invade the Philippines. Four different battles - Leyte, Samar, Cape Engano and the Surigao Strait...
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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...
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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 ABANDON SHIP! was the first chronicle of the events leading up to the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in the Pacific on July 30, 1945, the horrific aftermath at sea, and the contested political consequences in the U.S. The U.S.S. Indianapolis, a...
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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...
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War in the Boats: My WW II Submarine Battles (Memories of War)
by William J Ruhe Publisher Comments Submarine duty in World War Two took the lives of more than twenty per cent of American submariners. As a young ensign, William J Ruhe kept a journal on eight action-filled patrols in the South Pacific....
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Battleship Arizona's Marines at War: Making the Ultimate Sacrifice, December 7, 1941 (At War)
by Dick Camp Publisher Comments On December 7, 1941, about twenty minutes into the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an armor-piercing bomb struck the USS Arizona, penetrating four decks before exploding. An immense fire, fed by ammunition and fuel oil, swept through the ship...
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Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
by James Hornfischer Publisher Comments The author of "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" chronicles the untold story of one of World War IIs most celebrated warships, the U.S.S. "Houston," and the survivors who were captured and made slaves on Japans infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway....
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First Shot
by John Craddock Publisher Comments Unheeded warnings, missed opportunities, a failure to connect the dots--more than 60 ago, America was rocked by a devastating surprise attack on its Pearl Harbor naval base, one that destroyed a big part of our nation's Pacific fleet. To this day...
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