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  • United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Okinawa: the Last Battle

    [Illustrated Edition]

    by Roy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, John Stevens ...
    Series series United States Army in WWII
    [Includes 2 tables, 3 charts, 21 maps and 88 illustrations]On 3 October 1944 American forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas received a directive to seize positions in the Ryukyu Islands (Nansei Shoto). Okinawa is the most important island of the Ryukyu Group, the threshold of the four main islands of Japan. The decision to invade the Ryukyus signalized the readiness of the United States to penetrate ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Okinawa

    The Last Battle

    by Roy E. Appleman ...
    On 1 April, 1945, the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific Theater began. The battle for the island of Okinawa would last for the next eighty-two days. Through the course of this dramatic battle over 20,000 Americans would lose their lives and over 75,000 Japanese were killed in one of the bloodiest clashes of World War Two. Okinawa: The Last Battle is a remarkably detailed account of this ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Escaping the Trap

    The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950

    by Roy E. Appleman ...
    Narrated by Kevin Foley ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 58 min

    After its successful landing at Inchon and capture of Seoul in September 1950, the U.S. X Corps was joined by Eighth Army, and many people expected the two commands to be combined into one. Instead, General MacArthur ordered the X Corps to load onto ships and travel around the peninsula to northeastern Korea and the port city of Wonsan, which the South Korean I Corps had captured. Major elements ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    East of Chosin

    Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950

    by Roy E. Appleman ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 25 min

    Roy Appleman's East of Chosin, first published in 1987, won acclaim from reviewers, readers, and veterans and their families. For the first time, there was one complete and accessible record of what happened to the army troops trapped east of the Chosin Reservoir during the first wintry blast of the Korean War. Based heavily on the author's interviews and correspondence with the survivors, East of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Okinawa

    The Last Battle

    by Roy E. Appleman, James MacGregor Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, John Stevens ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 42 min

    On 1 April, 1945, the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific Theater began.The battle for the island of Okinawa would last for the next eighty-two days.Through the course of this dramatic battle over 20,000 Americans would lose their lives and over 75,000 Japanese were killed in one of the bloodiest clashes of World War Two.Okinawa: The Last Battle is a remarkably detailed account of this ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Victory in Papua

    by Samuel Milner ...
    Narrated by Joseph Kant ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 57 min

    By mid-1942 the Japanese forces were threatening to take the colonial capital of Port Moresby and therefore gain a base to launch their proposed invasion of Australia.The allied forces needed to blunt the Japanese thrust toward Australia and thus protect the transpacific line of communications, as well as to secure a favorable position to take the offensive to the Japanese.Yet this was easier ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook