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Veteran journalist and military commentator 'Strategicus' continues his contemporaneous history of the Second World War in 'The War Moves East'. Starting with the German offensive against Kiev and Leningrad the book follows the most successful period of the Wehrmacht in the East up to their final repulse before Moscow. In the deserts of Africa Rommel drives his Afrika Korps forward and in the Far East the Japanese run amok against American, Chinese...
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How did the Japanese themselves respond to the American occupation? How were the sweeping reforms-political, social, and economic-of SCAP's program received? How permanent was their effect, and why did some succeed and others fail completely? How successful in the long view was the democratization induced by MacArthur's "artificial revolution"? And what tendencies existing in fundamental Japanese attitudes and history might account for this peculiar...
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Includes 14 illustrations and 6 maps. A fascinating in-depth account of the early months of the naval war against the Japanese during the Second World War. Includes the sinking of the Royal Navy battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse off Malaya in December 1941 and the American victory at Midway in June 1942.
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HERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PATRIOTIC MURDER SOCIETIES, THE ARMY GANGSTERS, THE ARMY'S IDEA OF JAPAN'S DESTINY, AND THE STRANGE ROLE OF THE EMPEROR. In Japan the army possesses a kind of autonomy which immunizes it from control by any other agency. Long ago, Mr. Byas saw that the intoxication of this immunity would lead to war, and so he spent many years ferreting out from the secretive Japanese how the militarists gained their fantastic power. His...
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Night of Confusion…Down the "Slot"-that fabled channel between chains of islands in the Solomon group-steamed the task force of Admiral Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese Imperial Navy. His target: the Allied cruiser group gathered off Savo Island, near Guadalcanal. Three thousand Japanese guns were pointed at the destroyer Blue, on interception duty at the head of the Allied column. But no one aboard Blue noticed the enemy force churning past-so Blue roused...
7) Carrier War
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First published in 1945, "Carrier War" is the first-hand account of officers and soldiers who fought during the naval war in the Pacific through the battles of the Philippine Sea. It is the complete story of America's aircraft carrier Task Force 58, told in stirring narrative form and illustrated with 200 pictures and maps, and features frank discussions of strategy, accounts of personal heroism, and lays bare many new facts of sea war in the Pacific....
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A TRUE AND THRILLING STORY OF HOW THE PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE LAW OF LOVE IS BRINGING INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING AND THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST TO JAPAN
This is the amazing story of Sergeant Jacob De Shazer (1912-2008), who participated in the Doolittle Raid as a staff sergeant and, when released from 40 months in a Japanese prison, he announced to the world that he was going to return to Japan as a missionary…and he did!
9) "Miss U"
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This is the story of the heroism of Margaret Utinsky, who, against unbelievable and fantastic odds, for three years led an underground organization in the Philippines in a relentless and telling effort to aid American prisoners of war held by the Japanese. Dauntless and determined, she pushed into the background her own personal loss, faced the twin demons of physical and mental anguish, and "stood up" to circumstances and conditions which most of...
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THE TRUE STORY OF UNITED STATES NAVY RADIOMAN GEORGE TWEED AND HIS 31 MONTHS OF SURVIVAL ON JAPANESE-HELD GUAM DURING WORLD WAR II"DANIEL DEFOE would have admired George Ray Tweed, the American seaman whose ingenuity and self-reliance have caught the imagination of modern America as Robinson Crusoe's fascinated eighteenth century England. Defoe's hero was engaged almost solely in a struggle for survival against nature. "Crusoe and Tweed were most...
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Much of the material contained was gathered firsthand, as a correspondent for the New York Times, at sea and ashore with the navy, the marines, and the army, from Christmas Day, 1941, to the conclusion of the Aleutian campaign in August, 1943. Where events portrayed were not actually participated in, the information has been gleaned from official records or from conversations with the men who took part in them. No effort has been made to present this...
12) Atomic Quest
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Dr. Compton's book gives the reader an inside view of history in the making of the weapon that changed the world – the atomic bomb. As director of the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhattan Project he was a major participant in the research, production and testing of the bomb. From the vantage point of the key position he held from 1941 until 1945, Dr. Compton tells the whole story of the bomb's progress from the presentation of the project to...
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Frazier Hunt's friendship with Douglas MacArthur began on the battlefields of France during World War I. The young general, not quite six years the author's senior, had already caught the allure of Pacific destiny by the time that Hunt made his first long trip to the Orient - Japan, Siberia, China, the Philippines, Australia, Southeast Asia, India. Both Hunt and MacArthur, from their separate viewpoints, early foresaw that America's destiny lay in...
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AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. The LOG begins with U.S. Sloop Vincennes, which, with the Columbus, was the first American ship to enter Tokyo Harbor (1846).A contemporaneous account of the shakedown cruise of the U.S. Cruiser Vincennes in 1937 and experiences of the ship before escorting the Hornet on the Doolittle-Tokyo expedition are given. The contents also include likenesses and biographical sketches...
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General Claire Lee Chennault (1890-1958) was both a pioneer and a genius when it came to the development of fighter tactics. In the period between the World Wars, American aviation thinking had emphasized bombers and bomber doctrine, while the development of a fighter force and fighter tactics was downplayed. General Chennault was one of the few who perceived the potential of the fighter. Claire Chennault was a veteran pilot of the First World War,...
16) Secret Missions
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"SECRET MISSIONS" IS AN EXTRAORDINARY RECORD OF THE TWENTY-FIVE YEAR WAR OF WITS AGAINST THE JAPANESE SECRET SERVICE. This fantastic-and true-story was written by Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, the man who with one master stroke of psychological warfare broke the Japanese will to resist-before the atom bombing of Hiroshima. Long before World War II, Admiral Zacharias was sent to Japan to study the language and the country. Thrust into the world...
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Torpedoes Away, Sir! is the story of our submarine navy in the Pacific during the first eighteen months of the Japanese war. Anecdotes are told about real men and real submarines. Besides painting a vivid picture of the exciting underwater warfare and of the heroism of our submariners, Torpedoes Away, Sir! gives an accurate, clear description of an actual submarine. The illustrations include about thirty official U.S. Navy photographs, some of them...
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The story of Japan is no longer-if it was ever-the delicate words and prints of the travel literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A scheme for ruling the world has been followed by a costly war; the war by unconditional surrender; the surrender by occupation. From these tumbling events is emerging the new story, with characters and plots aplenty in the stark, sometimes terrifying and always swiftly moving drama of Japan today....
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This is the World War II History of an organization considered by many as one of the unique and most colorful combat units ever to serve in the United States Army in time of war-the Americal Division. Despite its early entry into combat on Guadalcanal in 1942, and its subsequent long period of service in the Pacific, the Americal, as a unit, cannot lay claim to having beaten the Japanese alone. Japan was beaten to her knees by the collective power...
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In The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower, which was first published in 1954, author Chesly Manly, the United Nations Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, leaves practically no part of government operation untouched. He covers the advent of the New Deal; the first year of the Eisenhower administration, with revelations of "diplomatic relations with an implacable enemy; subversion of national policies by collectivist legal and economic...
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