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  • USS Tennessee (BB-43)

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa in World War II

    by David Doyle ...
    Series Book 7 - BB
    The history of the design, development, and deployment of USS Tennessee, survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack—includes rare archival photos.Although bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Tokyo Bay, surviving enemy artillery, bombs, and kamikaze attacks, and even collisions with other ... Read more

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  • USS New Jersey (BB-62)

    From World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to Museum Ship

    by David Doyle ...
    Series Book 5 - BB
    A pictorial history of the most decorated battleship in the history of the United States Navy.Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only battleship of any nation to see service during the Vietnam War. Following service in Vietnam, New Jersey was again retired to the reserve fleet; there it ... Read more

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  • Neptune's Inferno

    The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors comes a “vivid and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal.”—San Antonio Express-NewsThe Battle of ... Read more

    £8.39

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

    The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that ... Read more

    £8.39

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  • Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway

    by Walter Lord ...
    Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War IIOn the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. ... Read more

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  • The Last Paladin

    A Novel

    by P. T. Deutermann ...
    Series series P. T. Deutermann WWII Novels
    Winner of the 2023 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction: A gripping tale of anti-submarine warfare in the World War II Pacific Theater, by a master of military adventure fiction.The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann is based on the true story of the USS Holland (DE-24), a World War II Atlantic Fleet destroyer escort which has spent the past two years in the unforgiving battle ... Read more

    £6.79

  • The Silent Service in World War II

    The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who Lived It

    by Edward Monroe-Jones, Michael Green ...
    From the naval battle of Guadalcanal to rescuing George Bush Sr. in the Pacific, here are the stories of US submariners in WWII.The Silent Service in World War II tells the story of America's intrepid submarine warriors in the words of the men who served and fought in the Pacific against Japan. When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, the enemy had already deployed naval forces, but the United ... Read more

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  • Wahoo

    The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine

    by Richard O'Kane ...
    The career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles.Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the astonishing Dudley W. “Mush” Morton, whose originality and daring new techniques led to results unprecedented in naval history; among them, successful “down the throat” barrage against an attacking ... Read more

    £6.19

  • Clear the Bridge!

    The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

    by Richard O'Kane ...
    The story of Tang and her gallant crew ranks with the most amazing of naval history. Whether rescuing Navy fliers off Truk or stalking enemy convoys off Japan, Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. Tang’s skipper on all five of her war patrols, Rear Admiral Richard H. O’Kane is acknowledged as the top submarine skipper of World War II. His personal decorations include three ... Read more

    £7.29

  • Final Patrol

    True Stories of World War II Submarines

    by Don Keith ...
    During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners.But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost 60 percent of Japanese shipping losses, and were a major factor in winning the war. 16 U.S. submarines - and one German U-Boat - that saw action during WWII are now open ... Read more

    £3.29

  • Heroes Beneath the Waves

    True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century

    by Mary Nida Smith ...
    The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea.In Heroes Beneath the Waves, many brave men who rode submarines to great depths and across the oceans into unknown territory share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. They allow us to travel back in time through their memories. Trained for years to keep silent-for loose lips sink ships”-many still believe what they know to be ... Read more

    £7.99

  • Silent Service

    Submarine Warfare from World War II to the Present?An Illustrated and Oral History

    by Philip Kaplan ...
    See the secret and dangerous world of submarine life and warfare like never before.From the ingenious but impractical designs of seventeenth-century inventors through the nuclear-powered submarines of today, this heavily illustrated volume traces the history of the silent force and the elite corps of men who fought and often died beneath the waves. Though fully describing the development of the ... Read more

    £15.49