OLD SCHOOL TACTICAL: HELL BENT – PACIFIC, 1941-1945
Lava Dawgs
2014
NON-FICTIONAn infantry battalion of Marines from Hawaii, find themselves deployed to fight in the biggest, urban battle since the Vietnam War. The city of Fallujah, in al-Anbar Province, Iraq, has been hijacked ...
Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500
2002
NON-FICTIONHow were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring.
The Brassey's Book of Naval Blunders
2000
NON-FICTIONA fascinating catalog of naval incompetence throughout history, from Roman times to the Gulf War
An Encyclopedia of Naval History
1999
NON-FICTIONAn Encyclopedia of Naval History provides both the structure and details of the evolution of naval history over the last five centuries. A fascinating and functional research tool, it contains more th...
The Naval Miscellany
2017
NON-FICTIONBrian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King’s College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Angl...
Military and Naval Recognition Book - A Handbook on the Organisation, Insignia of Rank, and Customs of the Service of the Worlds Important Armies and
2009
NON-FICTIONThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. ...
The Iron Cavalry
1998
NON-FICTIONPlacing the reader inside yesterday's mechanical beasts as well as today's sophisticated, night-seeing machines, "The Iron Cavalry" shows how armies throughout the world have utilized tanks, retaliate...
Enlisted Naval Aviation Pilots
2002
MEMOIRThe early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, an...
Our Man In Havana
2001
FICTIONWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts.His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he s tempte...
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
1981
MEMOIROne of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
2011
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the brutal naval campaign for Guadalcanal, covering six major sea battles fought in Iron Bottom Sound.
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
MEMOIRWar correspondent's firsthand diary of the Marines' desperate first weeks on Guadalcanal — one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of WWII Pacific combat.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
1980
MEMOIRManchester revisits the Pacific battlefields of his youth, weaving personal memoir with historical narrative across Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa.
The Pacific War
2010
NON-FICTIONOffers an introduction to the Pacific War, including such topics as the opening amphibious operations and Japanese naval strategy after Midway.
The Turning Points in the Pacific
2014
NON-FICTION*Includes pictures *Includes soldiers' accounts of the fighting *Includes bibliographies for further reading Although not as well-remembered as D-Day or even the attack at Pearl Harbor that preceded i...
Enemy at the Gates
1973
NON-FICTIONThe definitive account of the Battle of Stalingrad, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides.
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege
1998
NON-FICTIONBeevor's masterful account of the battle that changed the course of WWII on the Eastern Front.
D-Day: June 6, 1944
1994
NON-FICTIONThe climactic battle of World War II told through the accounts of those who were there.
The Longest Day
1959
NON-FICTIONClassic account of the Normandy invasion from all perspectives — Allied, German, and French civilian.