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  • The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War

    Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and Command, 1941-1943

    by Sean M. Judge, A23 ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two fronts—in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns, conducted between July 1942 and February 1943, proved a critical turning point in the war being waged in the Pacific, as the advantage definitively shifted from the Japanese to the Americans. Key to this shift was the Allies seizing of the ... Read more

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  • 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

    $11.99 USD

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  • 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

    $24.69 USD

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  • 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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  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Eagle Against the Sun

    The American War with Japan

    by Ronald H. Spector ...
    Series series World War II History
    “The best book by far on the Pacific War” (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict.This “superbly readable, insightful, gripping” (Washington Post Book World) contribution ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • 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

    $14.49 USD

  • The Pacific War

    The Strategy, Politics, and Players That Won the War

    by William B. Hopkins ...
    This "important comprehensive study" of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory ( Roanoke Times).Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological ... Read more

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  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Storm Over Leyte

    The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy

    by John Prados ...
    The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II—the greatest naval battle in history.As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey’s unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf—the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Refighting the Pacific War

    An Alternative History of World War II

    Edited by James C Bresnahan ...
    Refighting the Pacific War looks at how World War II in the Pacific might have unfolded differently, giving historians, authors and veterans the opportunity to discuss what happened and what might have happened. Contributors to this alternative history include noted military historians William Bartsch, John Burton, Donald Goldstein, John Lundstrom, Robert Mrazek, Jon Parshall, Douglas Smith, Peter ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Japanese Tanks 1939–45

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 137 - New Vanguard
    The Japanese Army used tanks to great effect in the build-up to World War II.Inspired by European designs, in the 1920s and 1930s an innovative Japanese tank program facilitated their campaigns in China prior to the Pacific War. During the ensuing war against the Allies tanks were deployed imaginatively in jungle terrain previously thought impassable by such vehicles, being integral in Malaya and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD