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

5 best books like Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine (Richard H. O'Kane): Our Man in Havana, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, Run Silent Run Deep, North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life, One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa

Our Man in Havana

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0140184937

Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

Author

James D. Hornfischer

With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same...

Run Silent Run Deep

Author	Edward L. Beach
ISBN	0304364657

An American equivalent of Das Boot, this gripping, bestselling novel of submarine warfare inspired a well-known Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable. Set in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the tension-filled story focuses on an American submarine captain given orders...

North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life

Author	Bob Buck
ISBN	0743219643

It is rare to find one person whose life embodies the history of an industry the way Bob Buck's life encompasses the history of commercial aviation in America. Buck first flew in the 1920s, inspired by the exploits of Charles Lindbergh. In 1930, at age sixteen, he flew solo from coast to coast, breaking...

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...