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  • Battlefields of the South Pacific

    Revisiting Guadalcanal, New Guinea, and Rabaul

    de Chris Hulme ...
    In late summer 1942, the Pacific War balanced on a knife’s edge. Japan’s sprawling empire seemed unassailable, yet on a chain of remote islands south of the equator, the tide began to turn.The US Marines struck first at Guadalcanal in the Solomons, where the fate of the Pacific cantered on a single prize: the Japanese airbase at what became known as Henderson Field. Control of this airstrip meant ... Leer más

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  • The Bataan Death March to MacArthur’s Return

    Revisiting the Battlefields of the Pacific War in the Philippines

    de Chris Hulme ...
    Hulme’s journey through Philippine battlefields reveals endurance, atrocity, and courage shaping collective memory.Over several years, author Chris Hulme embarked on a personal travel odyssey across the battlefields of the Second World War in the Pacific. In The Bataan Death March to MacArthur’s Return, he journeys through the Philippines – from the rain-swept streets of Manila to the wreck-strewn ... Leer más

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  • An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942

    The bombing of Darwin, February 1942

    de Peter Grose ...
    The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942. Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten ... Leer más

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  • The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

    'Readers look for and admire good writers and great writing. They will find it, in spades, in The Battle of the Bismarck Sea.' - The Canberra TimesIn the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a ... Leer más

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  • Australia's Secret Army

    Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy. They were mostly all unpaid volunteers whose job it was simply to observe and report on foreign ... Leer más

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  • Navy Divers

    The Incredible Story of the Australian Navy's Elite Unit

    de Gregor Salmon ...
    The Incredible story of the Australian Navy's elite unit.Rising out of the Second World War, the Australian clearance diver has become one of the most respected and versatile operators in the military world. In cold, murky water, working by touch alone, the Australian clearance diver can defuse a mine powerful enough to sink a battleship. Under the burning Afghan sun, they can dismantle a Taliban ... Leer más

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  • The Frogmen of World War II

    An Oral History of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams

    The exciting story of the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team—also known as the Frogmen of WWII—who were the precursors to today's Navy SEALs, in their own words.As countless battlefronts in the Pacific, African, and European theaters called for direct amphibious assaults against islands and beachheads, a small corps of exceptionally skilled fighting men was formed—the U.S. Navy underwater warriors. ... Leer más

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  • Taking Midway

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    From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a fast-paced, dramatic account of the famous yet little-understood battle that turned the tide of World War II.Everywhere around the world, the Allies are losing the war. Nowhere is this felt more completely than in the Pacific, where Japanese sea and ground forces claim victory after victory. ... Leer más

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  • The Cockleshell Raid

    Bordeaux 1942

    de Ken Ford ...
    Series Libro 8 - Raid
    On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes tasked with slipping into the port of Bordeaux and destroying as many of the merchant ships as possible. Only two of the canoes made it to the target, but it was enough. Five enemy ships were badly damaged in the attack. It then became a game of cat and mouse ... Leer más

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  • Iron Fist From The Sea

    South Africa's Seaborne Raiders 1978-1988

    This seminal work documents the clandestine sea borne operations undertaken by South Africa’s 4 Reconnaissance Commando Regiment. It breathtakingly reveals the versatility and effectiveness of this elite unit which worked with a range of other South African and Rhodesian forces, including the Rhodesian SAS, to engage in a range of raiding and war fighting activities. These operations saw the ... Leer más

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  • War on Our Doorstep: The Unknown Campaign on North America's West Coast

    The Unknown Campaign on North America's West Coast

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    In June 1942, Japanese troops occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska, the first enemy occupation of US territory since the War of 1812. For the next year a bloody conflict raged that was nearly invisible to most North Americans as Canadian and American soldiers, airmen and sailors went north to hold the Japanese in check.This is the complete story of the war in the North Pacific ... Leer más

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