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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 Best Price: $12.99 Max Hastings, Retribution; the Battle for Japan, 1944-45 The author describes the last...	Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew Best Price: $14.04 By the fall of 1944, the USS Tang, commanded by Commander Richard O'Kane, had compiled a war...	The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour Best Price: $8.88 A couple of years ago, I read "Shattered Sword" (about the Battle of Midway) and...	Flyboys: A True Story of Courage Best Price: $2.61 Can't criticize this book strongly enough. It's viciously anti-American and very often at odds...	Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivors Best Price: $6.99 very realistic book about what really happened. my uncle was on this ship and was captured by...



The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific Best Price: $12.97 Good sound rendition of "Gost Mountain Boys" on CD/ROM DVD. During his life my...	The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II Best Price: $5.82 This book reveals not one, but several alien cultures, not least that of a vanished America, and...	Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima Best Price: $2.93 This book is full of self praise and a large ego. Not a humble word in it. The author talks of...	At Dawn We Slept Best Price: $5.10 Gordon Prange was a military historian on MacArthur's staff who researched and interviewed key...	The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War) Best Price: $13.10 As with the other John Toland books, THE RISING SUN: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE...



Japanese Tanks 1939-45 (New Vanguard) Best Price: $11.24 Fast paced book summarises Japanese tank development from from 1918 thru 1945 in the first 22...	D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan (Twentieth-Century Battles) Best Price: $15.00 This is one of the best WWII books that I have read. It protrays the struggles of the...	With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Best Price: $4.35 I heard about this book and was able to find it easily online and at a great price.	Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 Best Price: $3.89 Evan Thomas examines more of the personalities of individuals and a general sweep of some of the...	Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan Best Price: $12.99 Prompt and Utter Destruction carefully builds arguments in favor of the decision to use the bomb...

In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia Best Price: $6.59 Spector does a great job of showing what came after the Missouri surrender ceremony. Millions...	A History of Modern Lebanon Best Price: $15.68 This book by Fawwwaz Traboulsi, aside from the poor print and paper qaulity, leaves the reader...	Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II Best Price: $3.74 In the preface to COTC, much is made of the fact that few books have been written about the...	Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War) Best Price: $7.98 This is a gripping first-person account of the battle of Guadalcanal. War correspondent Richard...	Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (Rev) Best Price: $11.95 In "Hiroshima Diary," Dr. Michihiko Hachiya recounts his experience as both a victim...

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage Best Price: $1.30 My dad loves true military stories, and I got this for him for Christmas. The previous Christmas...	Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces: Uniforms and equipment 1932-45 (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $2.98 For such a small volume, it is packed with useful information, and vivid pictures, many of which...	The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang Best Price: $3.42 This is the second book that I have read about Richard O'Kane and his experiences in the Wahoo...	The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II Best Price: $11.95 Reading this book reminded me about the unsightly tragedies that happened in Korea during the...	Phantom Warrior: The Heroic True Story of Pvt. John McKinney's One-Man Stand Against the Japanese in World War II Best Price: $10.45 Well researched and written book. Got to know JR McKinney rather well and understood his...

Defenses of Pearl Harbor & Oahu 1907-50 Best Price: $2.64 I grew up in the shadow of Diamond Head shortly after WWII. As a kid I climbed up the crater and...	Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II Best Price: $6.71 In December, 1944, the mighty U.S. Third Fleet, commanded by Admiral William F. Halsey, sailed...	Across the Dark Islands: The War in the Pacific Best Price: $3.76 A rather humble soldier (who later became a general) describes his experiences in the Second...	No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (Bluejacket Books) Best Price: $11.61 An interesting look at one mans war. This book tells of its authors survival and his thoughts as...	The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima Best Price: $1.99 The Last Lieutenant is an epic tribute to a brave man thrust into the hell of Iwo Jima. This...

Sea Cobra: Admiral Halsey's Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon Best Price: $11.47 Fantastic. Extremely well written. I lost a family member to Typhoon Cobra USS Spence DD 512....	BLOODY SHAMBLES VOLUME TWO: The Complete Account of the Air War in the Far East, from the Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma, 1942 Best Price: $38.40 An outstanding book! This series has been a wonderful source of information concerning the more...	Aces of the Rising Sun 1937-1945 (General Aviation) Best Price: $1.95 Henry Sakaida have complied a very good coverage to Japanese flying aces during the Second World...	Pacific Campaign: The U.S.-Japanese Naval War 1941-1945 Best Price: $7.00 Opinionated and insulting to the memory of Gen MacArthur. I burned this piece of trash and used...	US World War II Amphibious Tactics, Army and Marine Corps, Pacific Theater Best Price: $3.00 Basically an explanation of doctrine, organization, and equipment of amphibious operations, with...

The Japanese Army 1931-45 (Volume 2, 1942-45) Best Price: $2.62 Not bad, more of a focus on the "special forces" in the later war period. The fact...	Meiktila 1945: The Battle To Liberate Burma (Campaign) Best Price: $3.00 Edward M. Young, an aviation history, provides an excellent summary of the little-known Meiktila...	Japan's Longest Day Best Price: $6.88 phenomenal book, it's a must to understand the ww2 conflict. in conjunction with the dvd it...	Hiroshima Best Price: $14.00 There are works of fiction and nonfiction that transcend their genres. This is one of those...	Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima Best Price: $5.65 During the battle of Iwo Jima, two enemy grenades landed close to Jack Lucas and his buddies....

Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pear Best Price: $11.00 This book suggests, and convincingly, that MacArthur and Churchill and FDR engaged in...	Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive Best Price: $6.54 For those hauling cargo over the Hump, the enemy was not the Japanese but rather what is...	Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents and Essays (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $3.79 very insightful as to the acts that would be come upon the attack on pearl harbor. very well...	Saipan & Tinian 1944: Piercing the Japanese Empire (Campaign) Best Price: $6.06 My uncle, Herbert Shaw, was killed on Saipan. He was awarded the Silver Star for his heroism,...	All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese Best Price: $12.31 This remarkable book captures the oral histories of American Army and Navy nurses who served in...

The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) Best Price: $8.92 This book gives an extraordinary account of the atrocities that took place in China. Throughout...	The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War Best Price: $16.49 Eddie Fung's curiosity, sense of adventure, and generous spirit in helping others is inspiring! ...	The Battle For Okinawa Best Price: $8.40 As some other's have noted, Colonel Yahara was a staff officer often not directly on the front...	Japanese Infantryman 1937-45: Sword of the Empire (Warrior) Best Price: $4.50 I wanted to learn more about the Japanese soldier of World War Two from the viewpoint of the...	I-400 Japan's Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine - Objective Panama Canal Best Price: $31.32 AS A SUBMARINE VETERAN, I FOUND THE INFORMATION VALUABLE. IT WAS AMAZING THAT A VESSEL OF THAT...

The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java When I was a very little girl, we lived in Indonesia and were in Japanese concentration camps...	Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Island Best Price: $8.25 This book purports to take the reader "on a tour" of Pacific warship shipwrecks. What...	Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 Best Price: $41.47 I liked this book. Author tried his best to bring to us all important details. However, one...	A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945 Best Price: $79.19 Of the four major navies in the twentieth century (Royal, U.S., Imperial German/Kriegsmarine,...	Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War: Letters to the Editor of Asahi Shimbun Best Price: $25.60 The first shocking chapters of this book give us a picture of a military culture whose sadistic...

Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb Best Price: $13.91 This book is quite fascinating. What Skates has done is write a history of the planning for the...	Japanese Army of World War II (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $14.99 Not having read much on the Japanese Armed Forces, I've mainly read about the German Wehrmacht...	Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire Best Price: $24.95 I was moved to reread this fine book by Richard Frank by the allegation by Presidential...	Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945 (1st Edition) Best Price: $36.01 The central issue in an autobiography is the character of its author. Ugaki's is replete with...

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