Victory in the Pacific: Japan and Okinawa

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...

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...

Hiroshimaby John HerseyPaperback208 PagesJune 2020Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single...

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,...

The Cake Tree in the Ruins (Pushkin Collection)by Akiyuki Nosaka (Author) Translated by Ginny Tapley TakemoriPaperback160 pagesDecember 2018Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children...

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...