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  • Iron and Fire

    The Pacific War Story of Destroyer Captain Bruce McCandless

    Iron and Fire is a newly recovered firsthand account of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific war, told by a Medal of Honor–winning officer who fought from Pearl Harbor through Okinawa. Offering an unfiltered view of combat at sea—its decisions, costs, and consequences—the memoir preserves the lived experience of naval warfare through one of the most punishing operational tempos in American history.In 1941, the ... Read more

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    The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors comes a “vivid and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal.”—San Antonio Express-NewsThe Battle of ... Read more

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  • The Pacific

    by Hugh Ambrose ...
    **The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries.Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!**Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war ... Read more

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  • Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway

    by Walter Lord ...
    Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War IIOn the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. ... Read more

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  • Miracle at Midway

    New York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is "something special among war histories" ( Chicago Sun-Times )."Epic." — The New York Times"The most detailed and comprehensive account of Midway." —James D. Hornfischer, bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood... ... Read more

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  • Challenge for the Pacific

    Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War

    by Robert Leckie ...
    From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to ... Read more

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  • The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, from the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors—with original maps and more than 120 dramatic photographs“A masterful, fresh account of the latter days of ... Read more

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  • The Twilight Warriors

    by Robert Gandt ...
    Winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war during World War II: Okinawa.April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are ... Read more

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  • Day of Infamy

    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    by Walter Lord ...
    Lord’s classic, bestselling account of the bombing of Pearl HarborThe Day of Infamy began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan’s deadly torpedoes suddenly rained down on the Pacific fleet, soldiers, generals, and civilians alike felt shock, then fear, then rage. From the chaos, a thousand personal stories of courage emerged. Drawn from hundreds of interviews, ... Read more

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  • Twilight of the Gods

    War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 3 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    **New York Times Bestseller“No one has told the story of World War II in the Pacific, from beginning to bitter end, better than Ian W. Toll. This final volume concludes a brilliant trilogy.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of The First Wave and Avenue of Spies**In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The ... Read more

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  • The Conquering Tide

    War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 2 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    **A New York Times Bestseller"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative." —Wall Street Journal**This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide," ... Read more

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  • The Bravest Man

    Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang

    by William Tuohy ...
    “There’s no margin for mistakes in submarines. You’re either alive or dead.”–Richard O’KaneHailed as the ace of aces, captain Richard O’Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his consummate skill and heroism as a submarine skipper, sank more enemy ships and saved more downed fliers than anyone else.Now Pulitzer Prize—winning author William Tuohy captures all the danger, the terror, ... Read more

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