Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
10 best books like Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (Patrick K. O'Donnell): Shadows In The Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines In World War II, Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today, Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe, My Hitch in Hell, Invasion Rabaul: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II, Battleground Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Combat Odyssey in K/3/5, Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa, The Lions of Iwo Jima, Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
| Author | Larry Alexander |
| ISBN | 0451225937 |
A new account of World War II heroism from the national bestselling author of Biggest Brother.
Determined to retake the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur organized a first- rate intelligence-gathering unit. They were called...
| Author | Candlewick Press |
| ISBN | 0763694924 |
In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten.
The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn....
| Author | Ernie Pyle |
| ISBN | 0671644521 |
I was given a copy of this book to aid in my research on WWII for one of my Lash novels. I thought that it was simply going to be transcripts of Ernie’s dispatches sent in from the front lines of WWII that later were published in America. I hoped to get some eyewitness accounts and maybe some interesting anecdotes....
| Author | William I. Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0743273818 |
Americans are justly proud of the role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest...
| Author | Lester I. Tenney |
| ISBN | 1574888064 |
Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the...
Invasion Rabaul: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II
| Author | Bruce Gamble |
| ISBN | 0760345910 |
The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble’s critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the tiny Australian garrison sent to defend this Southwest Pacific island, soon...
| Author | Sterling Mace |
| ISBN | 1250005051 |
A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WWII’S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION
Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary “K-3-5” (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific...
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa
| Author | Joseph H. Alexander |
| ISBN | 0804115591 |
"The first complete and definitive account of the Battle of Tarawa."
--Maj. Gen. Mike Ryan, USMC (Ret.)
Navy Cross recipient
Green Beach, Tarawa
On November 20, l943, in the first trial by fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, five...
| Author | Fred Haynes |
| ISBN | 0805083251 |
"The Lions of Iwo Jima" tells the full story of one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines. Combat Team 28, 4500 men strong, trained for a full year, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, and raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi after four days of ferocious combat....
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
| Author | Eric M. Bergerud |
| ISBN | 0140246967 |
A brilliant history of the land battles in the Pacific theater of World War II, with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces.
The horrors of WWII in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this revelatory...
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan
| Author | Robert Leckie |
| ISBN | 0306807858 |
Strong Men Armed relates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction—and did. (All but three...
Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
In the tradition of E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed, this is a Marine rifleman’s extraordinarily vivid, brutally candid memoir of what it was like on the front lines of World War II in the Pacific.
In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of...
The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
| Author | Gerald Astor |
| ISBN | 0440226481 |
Europe has fallen. Pearl Harbor is in flames. Enter: the Eighth.
In 1941 the RAF fought a desperate battle of survival against the Luftwaffe over Britain. Then, from across the Atlantic, came a new generation of American pilots, gunners, and bombardiers, a new generation of flying machines...
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
| Author | James Campbell |
| ISBN | 0307335968 |
Campbell brings to vivid life one of the more forgotten, grislier campaigns of World War II, the Buna Trail campaign in New Guinea. The Japanese were trying to get a foothold on the south coast of the island, opposite Australia. The American Thirty-second Infantry Division had the job of driving them...
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
| Author | Richard B. Frank |
| ISBN | 0140165614 |
The battle at Guadalcanal--which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor--marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7,000 Americans and over 30,000 Japanese.This volume, ten years in the writing, recounts the full story...
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa
| Author | John F. Wukovits |
| ISBN | 0451221389 |
The riveting true account of the first American offensive in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out any token Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio and return to their waiting ships. But when the Marines...
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island
| Author | Bill Sloan |
| ISBN | 0553381946 |
A gripping narrative of unprecedented valor and personal courage, here is the story of the first American battle of World War II: the battle for Wake Island. Based on firsthand accounts from long-lost survivors who have emerged to tell about it, this stirring tale of the “Alamo of the Pacific” will...
Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun
| Author | John Prados |
| ISBN | 0451238044 |
Acclaimed WWII historian and military intelligence expert John Prados offers a provocative reassessment of the Allies’ battle for the Solomon Islands—a turbulent, dramatic campaign that, he argues, was the true turning point of the Pacific conflict.
Historians traditionally...
Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II
| Author | Barrett Tillman |
| ISBN | 0451219562 |
The incredible true story of the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history--World War II's Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.
"Superb... the greatest naval air battle of all time finally receives the meticulous and comprehensive treatment it deserves."--Richard Frank, author of...
In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
| Author | Gottlob Herbert Bidermann |
| ISBN | 0700611223 |
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures the sights, sounds, and smells of the war as it vividly portrays an army marching on the road to ruin.A riveting...
