Shadows In The Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines In World War II
6 best books like Shadows In The Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines In World War II (Larry Alexander): Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes, You'll Be Sor-ree: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War, The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific, Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island, Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945, American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann-the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became the True "Father" of Army Special Forces
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes
Author | Tameichi Hara |
ISBN | 1591143543 |
The Naval Institute Press is pleased to make available for the first time this cloth edition of a now-classic war memoir that was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s. Originally published as a paperback in 1961, it has long been treasured by World War II buffs and professional...
You'll Be Sor-ree: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War
Author | Sid Phillips |
ISBN | 0615336833 |
Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, AL, when he plunged into the jungles of Guadalcanal in August 1942. A mortarman with H-Company (the same company as Helmet For My Pillow author Robert Leckie), 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, Sid was only a 17-year-old...
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...
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...
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
Author | Evan Thomas |
ISBN | 0743252217 |
Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo...
American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann-the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became the True "Father" of Army Special Forces
Author | Mike Guardia |
ISBN | 1935149229 |
A main selection of the Military Book Club and a selection of the History Book Club.
With his parting words I shall return, General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared...