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  • Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42

    The IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway

    door Mark Stille ...
    Serie Boek 1 - Fleet
    Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power.The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of the most formidable navies in the world, and its combat power was concentrated into one force, the Combined Fleet. In the months that followed Pearl ... Meer lezen

    14,41 €

  • US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941–42

    Striking back in the months to Midway

    door Mark Stille ...
    Serie Boek 22 - Fleet
    Illustrated throughout, an expert account of the US Pacific Fleet in the crucial six months between Pearl Harbor and its revenge at Midway.Despite the damage inflicted at Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet still had the ability to hit back. In this book, US Navy expert Mark Stille explains and assesses the fleet's response to the apparent disaster, and how its actions led to the decisive victory at ... Meer lezen

    15,09 €

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  • Japanese Combined Fleet 1942–43

    Guadalcanal to the Solomons Campaign

    door Mark Stille ...
    Serie Boek 8 - Fleet
    A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did.Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the IJN's Combined Fleet during the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaigns, when it was ... Meer lezen

    15,09 €

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  • Islands of Destiny

    The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

    door John Prados ...
    The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted.Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and ... Meer lezen

    6,03 €

  • The Battle for Tinian

    Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan

    door Nathan N. Prefer ...
    This vivid history chronicles the decisive US naval campaign that secured the Japanese island of Tinian—the site that would launch the end of WWII.In July 1944, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army, and Air Corps descended on the Pacific island of Saipan, just three miles away from the Japanese stronghold on the island of Tinian. There had been 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan before the ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Pearl Harbor 1941

    door Mark Stille ...
    Serie Boek 26 - Raid
    In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the American aircraft carriers they hoped to destroy were not present. In this new study of the raid, ... Meer lezen

    14,41 €

  • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War

    door Mark Stille ...
    A highly illustrated examination of the key ships, tactics and operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the War in the Pacific in World War II.The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world at the start of World War II, and came to dominate the Pacific in the early months of the war. This was a remarkable turnaround for a navy that only began to modernize in 1868 ... Meer lezen

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  • The Coral Sea 1942

    The first carrier battle

    door Mark Stille ...
    Serie Boek 214 - Campaign
    A detailed account of the first check of Japanese naval expansion in the Pacific.The Battle of the Coral Sea is unique in the annals of naval history. It is the first battle in which enemy fleets never came within sight of one another. Instead, aircraft launched from carrier decks were sent out to attack the enemy with bombs and torpedoes.In May of 1942, the Japanese fleet moved on Port Moresby, ... Meer lezen

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  • Storm Over Leyte

    The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy

    door John Prados ...
    The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II—the greatest naval battle in history.As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey’s unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf—the ... Meer lezen

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  • Refighting the Pacific War

    An Alternative History of World War II

    Bewerkt door James C Bresnahan ...
    Refighting the Pacific War looks at how World War II in the Pacific might have unfolded differently, giving historians, authors and veterans the opportunity to discuss what happened and what might have happened. Contributors to this alternative history include noted military historians William Bartsch, John Burton, Donald Goldstein, John Lundstrom, Robert Mrazek, Jon Parshall, Douglas Smith, Peter ... Meer lezen

    20,55 €

  • The Pacific War

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II.On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into World ... Meer lezen

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