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  • Iwo Jima 1945

    The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi

    by Derrick Wright ...
    Series Book 81 - Campaign
    A definitive account of the battle of Iwo Jima, from its origins to its hard-fought conclusion.One of the decisive battles of the Second World War in the Pacific, Iwo Jima was described by Lieutenant-General Holland Smith, Commander Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, as 'The most savage and most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps' - a titanic struggle that eclipsed all that had gone before ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Hell in the Pacific

    The Battle for Iwo Jima

    by Derrick Wright, Gordon L. Rottman ...
    A definitive account of the famous battle of Iwo Jima, and the men who fought there.The battle of Iwo Jima saw one hundred thousand men fighting over a tiny volcanic island of just 8 square miles. The island was of major strategic importance to the US Air Force. However, it was also of supreme importance to the 20,000 Japanese troops who were deeply entrenched in the island when the Marines ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Tarawa 1943

    The turning of the tide

    by Derrick Wright ...
    Series Book 77 - Campaign
    An detailed examination of this bloody Pacific battle, featuring maps, artwork and archive photography.The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Pacific War

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    by Carl Smith, Mark Stille, Joseph Mueller, Derrick Wright, Jim Moran, Gordon L. Rottman, Bernard Ireland ...
    Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II.On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into World ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Sensational Writers + Holiday Recipes

    by Bibiana Krall, Veronica Cline Barton, Cynthia Raleigh, M.G. Wells, Katie Mettner, Derrick Marrow, Morgan Wright, Amanda DeHaven, Heather Karn, Rick Pryll, Amy Reade, Alex Bailey, Serena Hassan, J.W. Garrett, R.J. Garcia, Steven Patchett, C.M. Turner ...
    Introducing: Sensational Writers + Holiday RecipesA Festive Collaboration of Storytelling and Culinary DelightNow Available – Optimized for viewing on color tablets and large screens.Join us in celebrating the holiday season with Sensational Writers + Holiday Recipes, a heartwarming and delicious collaboration featuring personal stories, short essays, and cherished holiday recipes from a vibrant ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Odyssey of Nirvana

    Myths of the Tome

    by Derrick John Wiggins ...
    Narrated by Tristan Wright ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 8 min

    In the heart of a steampunk dystopia is Nirvana, a heaven in the world of Terra Firma.Arlo finds a new purpose after communing with God, an entity known in Nirvana as the Watcher. To serve this deity, he joins up with some old pirate companions on a mission, along with a preacher and friend named Cooper. In bringing back a stolen religious relic, Arlo must act fast, working with his pirate mates ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBooks

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  • The Proud Bastards

    One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam

    by E. Michael Helms ...
    A riveting memoir of one marine rifleman's journey from Parris Island through the hell of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines.In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines—and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever change ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Battle for Tinian

    Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan

    by Nathan N. Prefer ...
    This vivid history chronicles the decisive US naval campaign that secured the Japanese island of Tinian—the site that would launch the end of WWII.In July 1944, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army, and Air Corps descended on the Pacific island of Saipan, just three miles away from the Japanese stronghold on the island of Tinian. There had been 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan before the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War at the End of the World

    Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945

    by James P. Duffy ...
    A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea.“A meaty, engrossing narrative history… This will likely stand as the definitive account of the New Guinea campaign.”—The Christian Science MonitorOne American soldier called ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Road to Victory

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    by Dale Dye, Robert O'Neill ...
    No war has tested the resolve of the American people and her fighting men as did the battles in the Pacific. This book is a visual testament to the key battles fought in the Pacific.On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • MacArthur's Victory

    The War in New Guinea, 1943-1944

    by Harry Gailey ...
    A GREAT WARRIOR AT THE PEAK OF HIS POWERSIn March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur faced an enemy who, in the space of a few months, captured Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and, from their base at Raubaul in New Britain, threaten Australia. Upon his retreat to Australia, MacArthur hoped to find enough men and matérielfor a quick offensive against the Japanese. Instead, he ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Coral and Blood

    by Eric Hammel ...
    CORAL AND BLOOD: The U.S. Marine Corps Pacific Campaign by Eric Hammel In only a lifetime, the long United States Marine Corps campaign across the Pacific Ocean has become the stuff of enduring legend. We are down to just a few Pacific Warriors who lived it and can still tell us about it from their own experiences. Now, in Coral and Blood, military historian Eric Hammel, who has specialized in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD