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Stackpole Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and landed 150,000 troops--under withering German fire--on Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in a single...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
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Draws on personal interviews, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and archival research to document the bold 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines that freed more than two thousand brutalized men, women, and children.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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In Lethal Tides, Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy’s success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan. Anticipating tides, planning for coral reefs,...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers : Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches ; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang" ; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping...
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English
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"The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the US Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower. One of America's preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive and ambitious book to date. Drawing on new primary sources and personal accounts of Americans and Japanese alike, here is a thrilling narrative of the climactic...
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