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  • Kokoda 1942–43

    Japanese Defeat in Papua

    by Dr Peter Williams ...
    Series Book 425 - Campaign
    An in-depth look at the battles at Kokoda, Milne Bay and Buna-Gona, which saw the Japanese battle the Australians and Americans on Papua.The Japanese invasion of, and ejection from, the Territory of Papua was a six-month long campaign. From July to September 1942, the Japanese, having landed at Buna, advanced towards Port Moresby along the Kokoda Trail (or Track). They were opposed, at first, by ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Sinking of the Bismarck

    by William L. Shirer ...
    The famous war correspondent delivers an edge-of-your seat account of the naval chase and battle to take out one of Hitler's most powerful warships.The Bismarck wasn't just any warship. Its guns were much stronger and more accurate than any others in its day—meaning it could easily sink enemy ships without getting in range of their fire. It was one of Hitler's most powerful weapons, and the Allied ... Read more

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  • A Bastard of a Place

    by Peter Brune ...
    '. . . Brune's book is a timely reminder that despite the warmest alliances, nations sometimes have to stand up and save themselves.' - The Weekend Australian Financial Review'. . . A Bastard of a Place undeniably ranks as the best book ever written about the Aussie battles in Papua . . . Very highly recommended, and certainly one of the best books of the year.' - Bill Stone, Stone + Stone Second ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • World War II at Sea

    A Global History

    by Craig L. Symonds ...
    Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

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  • The Path of Infinite Sorrow

    by Craig Collie and Hajime Marutani ...
    The story of the bloody Kokoda campaign, told for the first time through the personal experiences of the Japanese soldiers. 'We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.' Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous spine of New Guinea. Few prisoners were taken, most were ... Read more

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  • Victory in the Pacific

    Pearl Harbour to the Fall of Okinawa

    by Karen Farrington ...
    On 7 December 1941, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbour. Simultaneously, they launched all-out assaults on Malaya, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Japan's sphere of influence spread at a phenomenal rates and it seemed the their dream of empire was about to be realized.Featuring remarkable photographs and useful maps*, Victory in the Pacific* examines how the tide of Japanese victory was turned ... Read more

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  • Pacific Onslaught

    7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943

    by Paul Kennedy ...
    A look at the early years of the Pacific conflict in World War II, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.Japan had mighty ambitions: to control the Western Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor devastated their primary obstacle—the American Pacific fleet—and they swept across the region. What ensued was a bitter struggle in which many thousands of soldiers ... Read more

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  • The War for the Seas

    A Maritime History of World War II

    by Evan Mawdsley ...
    This "impeccable, myth-busting study" of WWII maritime operations sheds new light on the conflict with sharp analysis and an international perspective (The Sunday Times, UK).Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 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

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • War in the Pacific

    From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

    by Harry Gailey ...
    Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief ... Read more

    $15.99 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