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  • US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman

    Guadalcanal 1942–43

    podle Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Série Kniha 8 - Combat
    The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal in many ways came to typify the island-hopping war in the Pacific.This book not only explores the differing tactics and equipment used by the two combatants but also shows how the challenges of fighting in inhospitable tropical jungles impacted on soldiers on the ground, as combatants had to deal not only ... Přečtěte si více

    359,49 Kč

  • US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman

    Guadalcanal 1942–43

    podle Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Série Kniha 8 - Combat
    The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal in many ways came to typify the island-hopping war in the Pacific.This book not only explores the differing tactics and equipment used by the two combatants but also shows how the challenges of fighting in inhospitable tropical jungles impacted on soldiers on the ground, as combatants had to deal not only ... Přečtěte si více

    314,99 Kč

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  • Carlson’s Marine Raiders

    Makin Island 1942

    podle Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Série Kniha 44 - Raid
    On August 17–18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific.This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to the southwest, in the wake of the US landings there ten days earlier; the Raiders were to destroy the ... Přečtěte si více

    359,49 Kč

  • No Bended Knee

    The Battle for Guadalcanal

    podle Merrill B. Twining ...
    “A VIVID NARRATIVE . . . A splendid first-person account of the costly campaign that enabled Allied forces to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese in World War II’s Pacific theater.”—Kirkus Reviews“By reading and studying No Bended Knee, the military professional can gain an appreciation for war at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Twining writes as he served his corps—boldly and ... Přečtěte si více

    162,49 Kč

  • Islands of Destiny

    The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

    podle 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 ... Přečtěte si více

    184,19 Kč

  • The Battle for Tinian

    Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan

    podle 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 ... Přečtěte si více

    272,69 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Pacific Naval War 1941–1945

    podle David Wragg ...
    This vividly detailed WWII history chronicles the bitter conflict at sea between Allied and Japanese naval forces.The Pacific War was primarily fought at sea. Naval power allowed the Japanese to mount their attack on Pearl Harbor and then advance westwards and southwards. It also enabled the Allies to strike back and even take the war to Japan itself. The tide turned very quickly, with the US ... Přečtěte si více

    239,09 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Conquering Tide

    War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

    podle Ian W. Toll ...
    Série Kniha 2 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    **A New York Times Bestseller"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative." —Wall Street Journal**This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide," ... Přečtěte si více

    356,99 Kč

  • The Road to Victory

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    No war has tested the resolve of the American people and her fighting men as did the battles in the Pacific. This book is a visual testament to the key battles fought in the Pacific.On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be ... Přečtěte si více

    329,89 Kč

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Fight for the Pacific, 1945

    podle Andrew Rawson ...
    On 19 February 1945, Operation Detachment began with US marine forces storming Iwo Jima, aiming to capture the island and its airfields. This was the first campaign on Japanese soil and would result in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. A brutal example of war at all costs, the defending garrison fought to almost the last man; it was a fight they couldn't hope to win against the ... Přečtěte si více

    179,09 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Hell in the Pacific

    The Battle for Iwo Jima

    A definitive account of the famous battle of Iwo Jima, and the men who fought there.The battle of Iwo Jima saw one hundred thousand men fighting over a tiny volcanic island of just 8 square miles. The island was of major strategic importance to the US Air Force. However, it was also of supreme importance to the 20,000 Japanese troops who were deeply entrenched in the island when the Marines ... Přečtěte si více

    337,79 Kč

  • Yamamoto Isoroku

    podle Mark Stille ...
    Série Kniha 26 - Command
    Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II.Yamamoto's career in the Imperial Japanese Navy started in the early years of the 20th century and he saw service in the Russo–Japanese War, being wounded in the battle of Tsushima in 1904. He went on to study at Harvard University and serve as a naval attaché in the inter-war years, an experience that was to give ... Přečtěte si více

    233,39 Kč