Wars & Conflicts - World War II - Pacific Theater
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Intrepid’s Fighting Squadron 18: Flying High with Harris’ Hellcats
$34.95 Add to cartUSS Intrepid‘s Fighting Squadron 18 (VF-18) was one of the U.S. Navy’s highest-scoring carrier units of World War II. Despite having only one combat veteran in its roster, its aviators–including Cec
- Author: Fink, Michael I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 168247321X
- Language: English
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Red Arrow Across the Pacific: The Thirty-Second Infantry Division During World War II
$40.00 Read moreThe history of WWII’s most battle-tested US Army division and its crucial role in achieving Allied victory in the Pacific
Red Arrow across the Pacific reveals the long-overdue story of the renowned Th- Author: Van Ells, Mark D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1976600332
- Language: English
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Japanese Infantryman Vs US Marine Rifleman: Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok, 1943-44
$23.00 Read moreFeaturing evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during 1943-44
- Series: Combat #75
- Author: Adams, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857917
- Language: English
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Knife’s Edge: South Pacific Carrier Battles from the Eastern Solomons to Santa Cruz
$41.95 Read moreWhile the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife… [more below]
- Author: Stern, Robert C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682475689
- Language: English
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Solomons Air War Volume 2: Guadalcanal & Santa Cruz October 1942
$48.95 Read more“Well-written, easy to comprehend, and informative. It is an excellent source for the Pacific air war enthusiast.” — Large Scale Planes
This second volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare… [more below]
- Author: Claringbould, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0645700452
- Language: English
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Japanese War Fantasy 1933: An Edited and Annotated Translation of Account of the Future Us-Japan War
$19.99 Read moreA bombshell dropped onto Honolulu docks in 1933–by ominous coincidence, on December 7. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Account of the Future US-Japan War. Unlike other popular w… [more below]
- Author: Fukunaga, Kyosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366467
- Language: English
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Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima
$34.95 Read moreExisting literature maintains that the U.S. Marine Corps’ operational success in the Pacific War rested upon two dominant themes: committed theoretical preparation and courageous battlefield action. P… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Marine Corps History and Amphibious Warfare
- Author: Hemler, Christopher Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682471349
- Language: English
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Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT Boats at Guadalcanal
$32.95 Add to cartEighty feet long, built of layered mahogany and powered by three monstrous 1500-horsepower V-12 engines, the US Navy’s Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats screamed across the water at over forty knots. They wer
- Author: Lloyd, Keith Warren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072064
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A fast-paced debut…Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.” — Publishers Weekly
A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japan
- Author: Harmon, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1400337046
- Language: English
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Japan’s Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan’s Mass Murder and Rape During World War II
$21.99 Read moreJapan’s Holocaust is a comprehensive exploration of Japan’s mass murder and sexual crimes during the Pacific and Asian Wars from 1927 to 1945.
Japan’s Holocaust combines research conducted in over eig- Author: Rigg, Bryan Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1637586884
- Language: English
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War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944
$32.95 Add to cartWar and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the surrender of Allied forces in May 1942 and MacArthur’s r… [more below]
- Author: Morningstar, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1557501718
- Language: English
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Luck or Miracle: A World War II POW’s Survival Story
$34.95 Add to cart“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
Jim Bollich, a 102-year-old World War II soldier, offers a first-person account of courage, fortitude and the will to su
- Author: Bollich, Reginald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997784
- Language: English
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Escape from Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Lukacs, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1668021331
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$38.00 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0316309850
- Language: English
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The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
$30.00 Add to cartEighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of Midway
The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and ai- Author: Simms, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701372
- Language: English
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Angels Against the Sun: A WWII Saga of Grunts, Grit, and Brotherhood
$34.99 Read moreIn the tradition of Band of Brothers, historian and former paratrooper James M. Fenelon offers a grunt’s-eye view of the 11th Airborne’s heroic campaign to liberate the Philippines in World War II. A … [more below]
- Author: Fenelon, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 168451200X
- Language: English
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Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man’s Defiance and Indomitable Spirit
$25.00 Add to cartValor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton.
Lieutenan- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250799457
- Language: English
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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, the extraordinary World War II mission to rescue survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe memb
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0061988359
- Language: English
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Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
$35.00 Read moreAward-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.
The “Devil Dogs” of- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 628
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361995
- Language: English
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A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
$20.00 Add to cartFirst-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America’s past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.
It has been termed an insurgency, a r- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0809096617
- Language: English
