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Author | : Donald J. Young |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786462310 |
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From December 7, 1941, until the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the war with Japan was a losing one. It was to be the darkest period of the almost four-year war. During those days, no times were more trying than the final hours for the men trapped on Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore. This book, outlining the bitter end to their ordeals, covers the crucial days and final hours that led to their surrender, a capitulation that would shock the free world.
Author | : Kirk Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780096091700 |
Download The Dramatic Events of Earth's Final Hours Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Andrés Reséndez |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1328515974 |
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The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific--and then, critically, to attempt the never-before-accomplished return, the vuelta. Four ships set out from Navidad, each one carrying a dream team of navigators. The smallest ship, guided by seaman Lope Martín, a mulatto who had risen through the ranks to become one of the most qualified pilots of the era, soon pulled far ahead and became mysteriously lost from the fleet. It was the beginning of a voyage of epic scope, featuring mutiny, murderous encounters with Pacific islanders, astonishing physical hardships--and at last a triumphant return to the New World. But the pilot of the fleet's flagship, the Augustine friar mariner Andrés de Urdaneta, later caught up with Martín to achieve the vuelta as well. It was he who now basked in glory, while Lope Martín was secretly sentenced to be hanged by the Spanish crown as repayment for his services. Acclaimed historian Andrés Reséndez, through brilliant scholarship and riveting storytelling--including an astonishing outcome for the resilient Lope Martín--sets the record straight.
Author | : John Wukovits |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306922045 |
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From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they were about to carry out the final air mission of World War II. Two hours later, Yorktown received word from Admiral Nimitz that the war had ended and that all offensive operations should cease. As they were turning back, twenty Japanese planes suddenly dove from the sky above them and began a ferocious attack. Four American pilots never returned—men who had lifted off from the carrier in wartime but were shot down during peacetime. Drawing on participant letters, diaries, and interviews, newspaper and radio accounts, and previously untapped archival records, historian and prolific author of acclaimed Pacific theater books, including Tin Can Titans and Hell from the Heavens, John Wukovits tells the story of Air Group 88's pilots and crew through their eyes. Dogfight over Tokyo is written in the same riveting, edge-of-your-seat style that has made Wukovits's previous books so successful. This is a stirring, one-of-a-kind tale of naval encounters and the last dogfight of the war—a story that is both inspirational and tragic.
Author | : Ian W. Toll |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2011-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393083179 |
Download Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
Author | : Harry Gailey |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2011-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307802043 |
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Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief combatants' military doctrine, training, war plans, and equipment. The book then chronicles all significant actions - from the early Allied defeats in the Philippines, the East Indies, and New Guinea; through the gradual improvement of the Allied position in the Central and Southwest Pacific regions; to the final agonies of the Japanese people, whose leaders refused to admit defeat until the very end. Gailey gives detailed treatment to much that has been neglected or given only cursory mention in previous surveys. The reader thus gains an unparalleled overview of operations, as well as many fresh insights into the behind-the-scenes bickering between the Allies and the interservice squabbles that dogged MacArthur and Nimitz throughout the war. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
Author | : United States. Forest Service. Pacific Southwest Region |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Afforestation |
ISBN | : |
Download Final Environmental Impact Statement, Pacific Southwest Region, Vegetation Management for Reforestation: Appendixes A through H Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Kirk Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780096091700 |
Download The Dramatic Events of Earth's Final Hours Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Environmental impact statements |
ISBN | : |
Download Final Environmental Impact Report/environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Pacific Texas Pipeline Project Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David E. Meadows |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101205962 |
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On the man-made island fortress known as Sea Base, enemies are threatening from without and within. China seems poised to invade the island of Taiwan, with its ships and submarines swarming the area. And when an escort of American and British planes is ambushed by Chinese fighters, Sea Base prepares itself for a showdown. But the battle may already be lost. An assassin has infiltrated Sea Base to take out key personnel, and one of their own crewmembers may be a foreign agent. Now, Sea Base will have to fight the enemy on two fronts if it is to survive. “David Meadows is the real thing.”—Stephen Coonts “Great battle scenes, believable heroes, plus villains you’ll love to hate.”—Joe Buff, author of Deep Sound Channel