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  • Delivering Destruction

    American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima

    by Christopher Kyle Hemler ...
    Series series Studies in Marine Corps History and Amphibious Warfare
    Existing literature maintains that the U.S. Marine Corps’ operational success in the Pacific War rested upon two dominant themes: committed theoretical preparation and courageous battlefield action. Put simply, the Marines wrestled with the conceptual challenges of the amphibious assault in the 1920s and 1930s and developed the tools and methods necessary to seize a hostile beach. When Japanese ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, from the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors—with original maps and more than 120 dramatic photographs“A masterful, fresh account of the latter days of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Conquering Tide

    War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 2 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    **A New York Times Bestseller"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative." —Wall Street Journal**This masterful 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," ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Islands of Destiny

    The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

    by John Prados ...
    The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted.Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Pearl Harbor 1941

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 26 - Raid
    In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the American aircraft carriers they hoped to destroy were not present. In this new study of the raid, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Unknown Battle of Midway

    The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons

    by Alvin Kernan ...
    Series series The Yale Library of Military History
    "A memoir and more . . . Kernan brings this maritime battle superbly to life. . . . And he narrates the air assault in gripping detail" ( The Wall Street Journal).The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest US naval victory, but behind the luster is the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons. Of the 51 planes sent to attack Japanese carriers only 7 returned, and of the 127 aircrew only ... Read more

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  • Rising Sun Victorious

    Alternate Histories of the Pacific War

    Edited by Peter G. Tsouras ...
    In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidentschance events, opportunities seized or cast asidethat can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had been severed? What if Vice Admiral Nagumo had ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions

    by Alan D. Zimm ...
    "Uses modern methods of operational analysis to determine exactly how the Japanese planned and executed the great raid . . . a worthy, useful analysis" ( Naval History).The December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has been portrayed by historians as a dazzling success. With most American historians concentrating on command errors and the story of participants' experiences, the Japanese attack has ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Storm

    Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II

    by John Geoghegan ...
    The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their timeIn 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron ... Read more

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  • Nimitz at War

    Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

    by Craig L. Symonds ...
    From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two—"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come." Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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  • Into the Crucible

    Making Marines for the 21st Century

    by James Woulfe ...
    “This is a book for all Marines and future Marines. . . . [and] will also appeal to Marines of the ‘Old Corps’ since it shows we still ‘make ‘em like we used to.’”—Leo J. Daugherty III, Marine Corps Gazette“Something so tough, so powerful, that unless you join together, you can’t accomplish the defining moment. Your team will not make it unless you pull together.”—General Charles C. Krulak, ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • The Pacific War

    From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

    Edited by Daniel Marston ...
    The Pacific War brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians.From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was marked by amazing tactical innovations, such as those in amphibious warfare, and horrific battles that raged in the unforgiving climate of the island jungles ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD