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South Pacific Cauldron

Alan Rems

South Pacific Cauldron

The war in the South Pacific in its entirety has remained remarkably neglected by historians. This is the first comprehensive narrative history covering all land, sea and air operations in the theater to the end of World War II.While Guadalcanal is familiar to most Americans and the Kokoda Trail is well known to Australians, the war in the South Pacific includes many now forgotten operations that deserve to be well remembered. Also, significantly, the official Australian history of World War II...

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Alan Rems

Fallujah Redux

Daniel R. Green

Fallujah Redux

The city of Fallujah, Iraq will long be associated with some of the worst violence and brutality of the Iraq war. The battles to retake the city from insurgent fighters in 2004 have already indelibly carved its name into the historic annals of the U.S. military and occupy a revered place in the storied history of the United States Marine Corps. Initially occupied by U.S. forces in 2003, it eventually served as the headquarters for numerous insurgent groups operating west of Baghdad, including...

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Daniel R. Green

Faithful Warriors

Dean Ladd

Faithful Warriors

Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Ladd’s book chronicles his experiences as a junior officer in some of the fiercest fighting of the war in the Pacific. His recollections and descriptions of life–and death–on the far-flung island battlefronts of the Pacific War are vividly rendered, augmented by the recollections of a number of the men...

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Dean Ladd

Unveiling the Kings of Israel

David Down

Unveiling the Kings of Israel

“Correctly interpreted, the historical records of Egypt and Israel show a remarkable consistency with the Bible records which we can accept as not only inspiring but entirely reliable.” -From the Introduction Unearth the history of the small nation of Israel – the troubled and devastating periods of loss and exile – once lost to time. Far from being a book of myths, the Bible is an amazing historical record, and each year, more archaeological discoveries...

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David Down

Stranded in the Philippines

Scott A. Mills

Stranded in the Philippines

American missionaries Henry Roy Bell and his wife Edna had been teaching in the Philippines at Silliman University for twenty years when the Japanese invaded the islands after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the story of their guerilla war against the Japanese, from the time they took to the hills until they were secretly evacuated by submarine three years later. At first willing only to provide food to the young men covertly fighting against the Japanese, Bell eventually became fully...

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Scott A. Mills

Destined for Glory

Thomas Wildenberg

Destined for Glory

On 4 June 1942, three squadrons of U.S. Navy Dauntless dive bombers destroyed Japan's carrier force at Midway and changed the course of the Pacific war. As Wildenberg demonstrates in this book, the key ingredient to the Navy's success was the planning and training devoted to the tactic of dive bombing. Examining how political, economic, technical, and operational factors influenced the development of carrier airpower between 1925 and 1942, he shows why dive bombing became the...

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Thomas Wildenberg

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

Thomas J. Cutler

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written. First published in hardcover on the battle's fiftieth anniversary in 1994 and drawing on materials not previously available, it blends history with human drama to give a real sense of what happened–despite the mammoth scope of the battle. Every facet of naval warfare was involved in the struggle that...

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Thomas J. Cutler

Trapped at Pearl Harbor

Stephen Bower Young

Trapped at Pearl Harbor

Stephen Bower Young was a seaman first class assigned to gunnery duty in turret no. 4 on the Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Struck by torpedoes, the battleship started to sink, and Young and others became trapped when it overturned. Here, he recounts their terrifying experience with stunning clarity, recalling their frantic search for an escape route and horror at finding the exits blocked. He describes the water's inexorable rise, inch by awful inch; the sickening taste...

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Stephen Bower Young

Black Ops, Vietnam

Robert M. Gillespie

Black Ops, Vietnam

During the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization that consisted of personnel from Army Special Forces, the Air Force, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, and the CIA. This secret organization was committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major build-up of U.S. forces in 1965 and also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel,...

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Robert M. Gillespie

The Japanese Navy in World War II

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The Japanese Navy in World War II

Top-ranking Japanese officers offer their personal perspectives of the Pacific War. Lauded by historians and World War II buffs eager for the Japanese viewpoint, this collection of essays makes significant contributions to the field of World War II literature. This second edition, originally published in 1986, adds five articles to the original twelve to provide a full picture of the Japanese’s navy’s role in the war. Most of these moving accounts were written in the 1950s and retain the...

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Nomonhan, 1939

Stuart D. Goldman

Nomonhan, 1939

This is the story of a little-known Soviet-Japanese conflict that influenced the outbreak and shaped the course of the Second World War. In the summers of 1937, 1938, and 1939, Japan and the Soviet Union fought a series of border conflicts. The first was on the Amur River days before the outbreak of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. In 1938, division-strength units fought a bloody 2-week battle at Changkufeng near the Korea-Manchuria-Soviet border. The Nomonhan conflict (May-September 1939) on the...

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Stuart D. Goldman

Mrs. Packard

Emily Mann

Mrs. Packard

“Emily Mann is one of our most urgently engaging, provocative and significant American playwrights.”—Joyce Carol Oates “Elizabeth Packard emerges as a vibrant, passionate force of nature.”— The New York Times Illinois, 1861: Without proof of insanity, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on historical events, Emily Mann’s play tells of one woman’s struggle to right a system gone wrong...

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Emily Mann

From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir

George Melton

From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir

This is a ground-breaking study in Anglo-French naval relations after 1919 as they related to European diplomatic currents between the two World Wars, and to the balance of global naval power before World War II until the summer of 1940. The regional focus is on the Mediterranean, the only area where British and French naval power could be combined to support their diplomatic agenda and to restrain the weakest of the three Axis powers. In broader focus, the study suggests that shifting currents...

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George Melton

The Assembled Parties

Richard Greenberg

The Assembled Parties

" The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed."— New York magazine"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grown-ups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little we know about what we think we know."— Newsday Meet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In an opulent apartment overlooking Central Park, former...

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Richard Greenberg

The Train Driver and Other Plays

Athol Fugard

The Train Driver and Other Plays

"For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this."Athol Fugard "A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it."Sunday Independent The Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a chronicler of his native South Africa's apartheid past, directed its...

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Athol Fugard

Flying from the Black Hole

Robert O. Harder

Flying from the Black Hole

Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots–their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings–two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing...

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Robert O. Harder

Capturing Jonathan Pollard

Ronald J. Olive

Capturing Jonathan Pollard

Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in U.S. history has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time. Author Ronald Olive was in charge of counterintelligence...

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Ronald J. Olive

The Measure of a Man

Kathleen Broome Williams

The Measure of a Man

Maj. Roger G. B. Broome, USMCR, died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a well-known naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has turned the research skills she honed studying naval technology to find her lost father. For this biography, she makes full use of an extensive collection of her father’s colorful and articulate letters along with the testimony of surviving Leathernecks who served...

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Kathleen Broome Williams

Black Rock and Blue Water

Andrew C. Jampoler

Black Rock and Blue Water

RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s fleet, sank in the great St. Narciso hurricane of late October 1867, a devastating category three storm that bored a line east to west atop the Antilles, and ruthlessly thinned the islands’ population while it sank some seventy ships in port and local waters.Fleeing from Tortola across Drake Strait and toward open water at full speed, through the backside of the hurricane and...

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Andrew C. Jampoler

A Death in Geneva

A. Denis Clift

A Death in Geneva

A Death in Geneva is a fast-paced thriller set against the background of late-1970s terrorism that crisscrosses Europe, the United States, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic as mysterious assailants terrorize one of America’s richest industrialist families. The action begins when Constance Burdette, the newly appointed American ambassador to the European office of the United Nationsand the President’s secret loveris cut down by machine gun fire in a...

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A. Denis Clift

The Last Lincoln Conspirator

Andrew C. A. Jampoler

The Last Lincoln Conspirator

Despite all that has been written about the April 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the story of John Surrattthe only conspirator who got awayremains untold and largely unknown. The capture and shooting of John Wilkes Booth twelve days after he shot Lincoln is a well-known and well-covered story. The fate of the eight other accomplices of Booth has also been widely written about. Four, including Surratt’s mother, Mary, were convicted and hanged, and...

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Andrew C. A. Jampoler

From Kabul to Baghdad and Back

John R. Ballard

From Kabul to Baghdad and Back

From Kabul to Baghdad and Back provides insight into the key strategic decisions of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns as the United States attempted to wage both simultaneously against al-Qaeda and its supporting affiliates. It also evaluates the strategic execution of those military campaigns to identify how well the two operations were conducted in light of their political objectives. The book identifies the elements that made the 2001 military operation to oust the Taliban successful, then with...

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John R. Ballard

The Aborigine and the Drover

John P F Lynch

The Aborigine and the Drover

In the 1860s in the Colony of Victoria, Tabu an aborigine goes 'walkabout' after a violent tribal fight during which his brother is killed. He rescues the wife of a drover/farmer – Michael, who is an escaped convict. He hires Tabu to help him drove sheep into the mainly unexplored northern districts of Victoria to the Murray River. Only a few hardy explorers and drovers had previously been through this country when bringing stock overland from Sydney to Melbourne.<br /> <br...

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John P F Lynch

Ideas and Realities in Russian Lite...

Victor Robinson

Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature

“Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature” is a 1906 work by Russian historian and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Within it, Kropotkin presents a broad, general idea of the subject by examining modern literature and its most notable contributors. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Russian literature and is not to be missed by collectors of Kropotkin's seminal work. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842–1921) was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist,...

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Victor Robinson

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