Pacific Theater

40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles by Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia KraackPaperback338 PagesAugust 2021 An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40...

As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp by Stephen L. MooreHardback368 Pages2016 The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II—As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of...

  Atomic Bomb Island: Tinian, the Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II  By: Don A. Farrell  Hardcover464 Pages 2021   Atomic Bomb Island tells the story of an...

Bataan Death March: A Soldier's Story by James BollichPaperback 224 PagesOctober 2003 "I salute the author for writing his story; doing so must have caused him many a restless night and not a few tears. He has served all his fellow POWs well by...

Black Snow - Curtis LeMay, and the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bombby James ScottHardcover432 PagesSeptember 2022 “Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against...

Bound By War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century By Christopher CapozzolaHardcover480 Pages2020 A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of...

Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War By: Robert Leckie Paperback 464 Pages From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to...

China's Muslims & Japan's EmpireBy Kelly A. HammondPaperback314 Pages2020 In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A. Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the center of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Revealing...

Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barret Tillman (Author), Stephen Coonts (Foreword)Paperback384 pagesNovember, 2006From the national bestselling coauthor of Dragon's Jaw, here is the incredible true...

Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the USS Tang By: RAdm. Richard O'Kane, USN Paperback 480 Pages The captain of a World War II submarine recounts the eventful war patrols of his ship, whose sinkings of enemy vessels ranked second among...

Counting the Days: POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacificby Craig B. SmithPaperback288 Pages2018 Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific...

Crucible of Hellby Saul DavidPaperback488 Pages2021 With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the...

D-Days in the Pacific with the U.S. Coast Guard: The Story of Lucky Thirteen By: Ken Wiley Paperback 350 Pages The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the...

D-Days in the Pacificby Donald L. MillerPaperback448 Pages Although most people associated the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World...

Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan By Saul David Paperback 624 Pages 2023 The “Devil Dogs” of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines—part of the legendary 1st Marine...

Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War IIJohn Wukovits Hardcover 336 pages 2019   From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the...

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire By: Richard B. FrankPaperback496 Pages Downfall is an analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding of the American air campaign over Japan. The story opens with a searing description...

Eight Survived: The Harrowing Story Of The USS Flier And The Only Downed World War II Submariners To Survive And Evade Captureby Douglas A. CampbellPaperback304 Pages2018 On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu...

Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II By: James Tobin Paperback 336 Pages Ernie Pyle, better than any other World War II journalist, conveyed the triumphs and tribulations of the common soldier trying to survive a brutal...

Escape from the Deep Alex Kershaw Paperback 306 Pages 2009 In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive...

Final Patrol: True Stories of World War II Submarines By: Don Keith Paperback 262 Pages During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five...

Finish Forty and Home: The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific by: Phil Scearce408 PagesPaperback During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most...

Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 By: John C. McManusPaperbackAugust 2020640 Pages WINNER OF THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORYAn engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author...

Flags of Our FathersBy: James Bradley and Ron PowersPaperback382 Pages Say "Iwo Jima," and what comes to mind? Most likely a famous photograph from 1945: six tired, helmeted Marines, fresh from a long, terrifying and bloody battle, work together to raise...

Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima James Bradley Paperback 211 Pages 2003 New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military...

Flyboys: A True Story of Courageby James BradleyPaperback400 pages Structured similarly to Flags, which concerned the flag-raisers of Iwo Jima, this work reconstructs the lives of several young men at war. Eight pilots and airmen were shot down by the...

Guadalcanal 1942-43: America's First Victory on the road to Tokyo by Mark Stille (Author) and Peter Dennis (Illustrator)Paperback194 PagesAugust 2015 Using black and white contemporary photographs, illuminative maps and stunning battle scene...

Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle By: Richard B. FrankPaperback816 Pages A history of the battle at Guadalcanal draws on first-time translations of official Japanese defense accounts and declassified U.S. radio intelligence to...

Hell from the Heavans: The Epic Story of the USS Laffrey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack John Wukovits paperback 336 pages 2016 Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force...

Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 By D.M. Giangrgeco Paperback 584 pages November 15, 2020 Hell to Pay by D.M. Giangreco offers an exhaustive analysis of Operation Downfall, the planned but never-executed Allied...

Hell's Guest By: Colonel Glenn D. Frazier (Author) Paperback 231 pages 2010 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches In the summer of 1941 Glenn Frazier was a sixteen-year-old boy from the South Alabama farm country. Five months later, an...

Helmet for My Pillow By: Robert Leckie Paperback 305 Pages In January 1942, in the aftermath of the infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Robert Leckie enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. From boot camp on Parris Island, to the bloody war...

Hitler's War Beneth the Waves: The Menace of the U-Boats by Michael FitzGeraldPaperback256 pagesMarch 2020 During World War I, German U-boats had been the most effective naval weapon against the Allies and without America's entry into the war in 1917...

Into the Dark Water: The Story of Three Officers and PT-109 by John J. DomagalskiPaperback288 Pages2019 Made famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. However, a full...

Into the Dark Water: The Story of Three Officers and PT-109by John J. DomagalskiHardcover288 pagesMade famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. However, a full chronicle...

Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 by John C. McManusHardback656 pages2021 In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's...

Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sunby John PradosPaperback432 Pages2013 The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny,...

Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific By: R.V. Burgin, William Marvel, Bill Marvel Paperback 304 Pages R.V. Burgin enlisted at the tender age of twenty, and with his smarts and hard work, climbed the ranks to sergeant. This...

Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World Warby Ethan MarkPaperback368 Pages2018 Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese...

Japanese Combined Fleet 1942–43: Guadalcanal to the Solomons Campaign By Mark E. Stille Paperback 80 pages A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it...

Justice in Asia and The Pacific Region, 1945-1952: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions by Yuma TotaniPaperbackFebruary 2015 This book explores a cross section of war crimes trials that the Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World War...

Kamikaze: Japan's Last Bid for VictoryAdrian Stewart Hardcover224 Pages2020 In this fascinating book, the author examines the Japanese concept of Kamikaze, the deliberate self-sacrifice of life in the cause of victory. This attitude, while...

Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944by Peter Margaritis Hardcover208 Pages2018 On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu,...

Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle By Mark E Stille Hardcover 320 pages A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire...

  MacArthur's Spies: The Soldiers, the Singers, and the Spymasters Who Defied the Japanese in World War II Paperback368 pagesby Peter Eisner   "MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and...

Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific by Trent HoneHardcover448 pagesSeptember 2022 Mastering the Art of Command is a detailed examination of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz‘s leadership during World War II...

My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Memories of War) By: Lester Tenney Paperback220 Pages 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...

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. SymondsHardcoverJune 2022From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War...

Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II By: Robert Leckie Paperback 224 Pages Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian,...

Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II from Guadalcanal to Peleliuby Amy Rupertus Peacock and Don BrownHardcover448 PagesFeb 2022 Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known...

One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by: John Wukovits paperback 352 pages 2007 The riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Marines fought the Japanese nearly to the last man. In...

Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island By: John Wukovits Paperback 336 pages 2004 It happened in the shadow of Pearl Harbor-mere hours after the first attack on the day that would "live in infamy." But few know the full story of Wake Island...

Pacific Blitzkreig: World War II in the Central Pacificby Sharon Tosi LaceyPaperback270 Pages2013 Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific...

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942Ian W. TollHardcover640 Pages2011 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...

Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway by Stephen L. Moore Paperback448 Pages2015 Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS...

Prisoner of the Rising Sun: The Lost Diary of Brigadier General Lewis Beebe by: Brigadier General Lewis BeebeHardcover266 Pages A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, Prisoner of...

Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. ScottHardcover640 Pages2018 The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific. Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated...

  Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell   by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes (Editor) Hardcover224 PagesJanuary 2004   Battle diaries are essential for understanding what generals are...

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of MidwayBy: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony TullyPaperback640 Pages Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is, without question, one of the most famous battles in...

Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–1941 (War in the Far East)by Peter Harmsen Hardcover288 Pages2018 War in the Far East is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative...

Strategy in Crisis: The Pacific War, 1937-1945 By John KuehnHardcover240 Pages2023 The Pacific War (1937-1945) remains a crucial topic for strategic discussion, especially as Japan's push for a broader conflict in 1941 still fascinates historians. That...

Strong Men ArmedBy: Robert LeckiePaperback561 Pages2010 This powerful memoir written by a decorated World War II veteran retells the tumultuous stories of personal struggles and the impact of a chaotic world, told "with that truth recognizable to every...

Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on TarawaOscar E. Gilbert and Romain CansiereHardcover364 Pages20156 x 9 inches In May 1943 a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new Marine Corps company...

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolitte and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor By: James M. ScottHardcover672 Pages2015 In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors...

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermathby Michael Norman and Elizabeth NormanPaperback488 Pages2010 For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first major land battle...

The Battle of Guadalcanal: Naval History Special Edition by Trent HonePaperback120 PagesMay 2022Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer studies of...

The Battle of Iwo Jima: Raising the Flag, February-March 1945by Marc Khan Hardcover160 Pages2018 Just eight square miles in size, the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies some 750 miles due south of Tokyo. Following a preparatory air and naval bombardment...

The Battle of Midway By: Craig L. Symonds Hardcover 464 Pages There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese...

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Malcolm GladwellHardback256 Pages2021 An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of warA New York Times Book Review Editors’...

The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japanby Stephen HardingHardcover320 Pages2016 In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her...

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 (Pacific War Trilogy, 2) by Ian TollPaperback688 PagesSeptember 2016 A New York Times Bestseller"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the...

  The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan   By: Sam Kleiner PaperbackMay 2019 304 Pages   The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the...

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands - Pacific War (Images of War)by Jim MoranPaperback176 Pages2019 This Images of War book covers the dramatic events that befell both the Gilbert and Ellice Pacific island groups using a wealth of well-captioned photos and...

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the US Navy's Finest Hour By: James D. Hornfischer Paperback 499 Pages "This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will...

  The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan (Modern War Studies)   by Dixee Bartholomew-Feis (Author)paperback 446 pages May 2006   Some will be shocked to find out that the United States and Ho Chi...

The Pacificby Hugh Ambrose Paperback528 Pages In this companion to the HBO® miniseries-executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman-Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier...

The Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal By: Jay Wertz Hardcover A Unique Collection of Eyewitness Accounts A Lasting Tribute to the Veterans in Their Own Words The Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, the first in the planned 10-volume...

The Pacific Volume Two: To Solomons to Saipan (War Stories World War II Firsthand) By: Jay Wertz Hardcover 336 Pages 2013 The War Stories: World War II Firsthand series is anchored on the words and experiences of 100 Marines, soldiers, sailors,...

The Pacific War: Pearl Harbor, Singapore, Midway, Guadalcanal, Philippines Sea, Iwo Jimaby Andrew Wiest Paperback256 Pages2018 From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, this superbly...

The Real Tenko: Extraordianry True Stories of Women Prisoners of The Japanese By: Mark FeltonPaperback176 Pages2011 This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a...

The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines that Battled Japan James ScottPaperback448 Pages2013 This is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific. Focusing on the unique stories of three...

Tin Can Titans: The Heroric Men and Ships of World War II's Destroyer SqadronJohn Wukovits Paperback352 Pages 2017 An epic narrative of World War II naval action that brings to life the sailors and exploits of the war's most decorated destroyer squadron...

  To Bataan and Back: The World War II Diary of Major Thomas Dooley   By Jerry C. Cooper Hardcover264 Pages  November 2016   The Aggie tradition of Muster stretches back to the earliest days of the college. But an extraordinary...

To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John McManusHardcover448 PagesMay 2023 From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific...

  Tony's War: One soldier's Entire WWII Experiance Written s it was HappeningBy: Edward Anthony (Tony) Zahn) Paperback 282 Pages Decemeber 2019   Tony was an urbane, witty, college-educated Long Island boy whose WWII army career was recorded...

Tower of Skulls  Richard B. Frank Hardcover 768 pages March, 2020 An eye-opening, pathbreaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal. In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the...

Twenty-Two on Peleliu: Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marineby George Peto and Peter MargaritisHardcover368 Pages2017 On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central...

Twilight of The Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944 - 1945 (Vol. 3)(Pacific War Trilogy)Ian TollHardcover944 Pages2020 The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, “one of the great storytellers...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and RedemptionBy: Laura HillenbrandHardcover496 Pages From Laura Hillenbrand, the bestselling author of Seabiscuit, comes Unbroken, the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of...

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima Martha MacCallum Hardcover 336 pages In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II, the popular primetime Fox News...

War Beneath the Waves: A True Story of Courage and Leadership Aboard a World War II Submarine By: Don Keith Paperback 304 Pages A seasoned chronicler of submariners’ exploits now tells the tale of a heroic feat of endurance in the...

Wen Bon: A Naval Intelligence Officer Behind Japanese Lines in China in WWII by Bryon R Winborn (Author)Hardcover253 PagesNovember 1994 Winborn was a Naval lieutenant attached to the 14th Army Air Force to serve as a Technical Air Intelligence inspector...

With the Old BreedE.B. SledgeOkinawa Paperback352 Pages2007 An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd...

World War II Illustrated Atlas: Campagins, Battles & Weapons From 1939 - 1945 by David Johnson and Andrew WiestHardcover256 PagesFebruary, 2019 From two military experts comes an outstanding and comprehensive one-volume visual guide to the complex...

You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War By: Sid Phillips Paperback 260 Pages 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...