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  • The Pacific War

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hell in the Pacific

    The Battle for Iwo Jima

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Tarawa 1943

    The turning of the tide

    par Derrick Wright ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Iwo Jima 1945

    The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi

    par Derrick Wright ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Proud Bastards

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Battle for Tinian

    Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • War at the End of the World

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Road to Victory

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • MacArthur's Victory

    The War in New Guinea, 1943-1944

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Coral and Blood

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • South Pacific Cauldron

    World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds

    par Alan P Rems ...
    “Award-winning author Alan Rems brilliantly tells of the campaigns in the South Pacific, a region long overlooked, offering both the big picture and the foxhole view” — Military Officer “A fitting tribute to the men who fought and died in an often overlooked theater of World War II. As such, it is a welcome addition to our knowledge of World War II in the Pacific Theater.” — On Point: The Journal ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Saipan & Tinian 1944

    Piercing the Japanese Empire

    par Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Collections Livre 137 - Campaign
    An in-depth examination of the United States' invasion of two Pacific islands, featuring a variety of illustrations throughout.The 1944 invasion of Saipan was the first two-division amphibious assault conducted by US forces in World War II. Saipan and Tinian had been under Japanese control since 1914 and, heavily colonized, they were considered virtually part of the Empire.The struggle for Saipan ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD