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  • British Pacific Fleet 1944–45

    The Royal Navy in the downfall of Japan

    by Brian Lane Herder ...
    Series Book 3 - Fleet
    An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy's primary contribution to the direct defeat of Japan in 1945, and is among the most powerful fleets Britain has ever sent into action. With naval supremacy in home waters achieved by 1944, many of the best and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector

    The US Navy's Western Task Force

    by Brian Lane Herder ...
    Series Book 9 - Fleet
    A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex and important naval operations in history. With the target beaches divided into two areas of responsibility – one US-commanded, one British – this armada launched a month ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Battle of Okinawa 1945

    The Pacific War's Last Invasion

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    A pictorial history of one of World War II's most bitterly fought campaigns.The American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation Iceberg, was fought from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Three hundred and fifty miles from Japan, Okinawa was intended to be the staging area for the Allied invasion of the Japanese mainland. The Japanese Thirty-second Army defenders were on land and the Imperial Navy ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • US Marine Corps in the Second World War

    by Michael Green ...
    Series series Images of War
    The United States Marine Corps played a leading role in the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor in December 1941 until VJ Day on September 2, 1945. Living up to its motto the "First to Fight," the 1st Marine Division landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal in the south Pacific on August 7, 1942 and fought its way up the central Solomon Island to Cape Gloucester in the territory of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Longest Battle

    The War at Sea 1939–1945

    by Richard Hough ...
    This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history'The Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endurance and unremitting need to face danger - danger from increasingly lethal weapons and an ever-increasing need for vigilance by day and night.'The war at sea - the longest battle of the Second World War - never ceased. From the Arctic Circle to the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sea Combat

    From World War I to the Present Day

    by Robert Jackson ...
    Naval warfare - and the weapons used to conduct it – has changed greatly since World War I. Sea battles are no longer dominated by large battleships, but by even larger aircraft carriers. Ships have been relegated to floating missile platforms. Containing full- colour artworks and action photographs, Sea Combat is a comprehensive guide to how the ships, submarines and naval weapons that have been ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battle of Guadalcanal (True Combat)

    by Al Cimino ...
    Three days later a Japanese force landed at night. They ambushed a 26-man patrol, cutting the Marines down with hidden machine guns. The three survivors who made it back told their fellow Marines that the wounded had been hacked to death with sabres. From then on, the Marines decided they would be every bit as brutal...Read about the US Marine Landings on Guadalcanal; the desperate fight to take ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Bolt Action: Armies of Imperial Japan

    by Warlord Games, Agis Neugebauer ...
    Series Book 5 - Bolt Action
    Following the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese military saw action across Asia, from the capture and defence of the islands of the Pacific to the occupation of territory in China and Burma. With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players have all the information they need to build a force of the Emperor's fanatically loyal troops and campaign through some of the most brutal ... Read more

    $30.09 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