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Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
In the bloodiest island combat of World War II, one group of men risked it all to fight from behind Japanese lines The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (13.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated-and ultimately foiled-attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On a spy mission in World War II Philippines, U.S. Navy lieutenant Todd Ingram tries to rescue a girlfriend, trapped by Japan's occupation. Instead, Ingram is captured by the Japanese and it is she, now a guerrilla chief, who saves him. By the author of The Last Lieutenant.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
[1962]
Physical Desc
xii, 495 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
They are the men of C-for-Charlie Company--"Mad" 1stSgt. Eddie Welsh, SSgt. Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them--infantrymen in "this man's army" who are about to land grim and white-faced on an atoll in the Pacific called Guadalcanal. This is their story, a shatteringly realistic walk into hell and back. In the days ahead some will earn medals; others will do anything they can dream up to get evacuated...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of World War II.
On August 7, 1942, eleven thousand US Marines landed on Tulagi and Guadalcanal Islands in the South Pacific. It was the first major Allied offensive against Japanese forces; the first time in history that a combined air, land, and sea assault had ever been attempted; and, after six months of vicious fighting, a crushing...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author John Shors is a master storyteller. A novel of mercy, love, and renewal in a time of war, During World War II, the hospital ship Benevolence is providing relief to victims in the South Pacific when she is torpedoed and sunk. Among the survivors are a troubled nurse named Annie and the wounded Japanese soldier named Akira who saves her life.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Presents the story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who was marooned on a South Pacific island and waged a one-man war against Japanese forces. By the author of The New York Times best-seller The Last Battle,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri barreled through thick fog and struck the U.S. Navy's motor torpedo boat PT 109, splitting the craft nearly in half and killing two American sailors instantly. The sea erupted in flames as the 109's skipper, John F. Kennedy, and the ten surviving crewmen under his command desperately clung to the sinking wreckage;...
Publisher
A & E Television Network
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Veterans of the world's most memorable conflicts tell never-before-heard stories of rescues, sniper attacks, ambushes, and hand-to-hand combat. Legendary battles are re-created shot by shot. Coupled with eyewitness reports from military experts and soldiers from World War II to Iraq, these blow-by-blow re-creations of history's bloodiest confrontations take viewers to the front lines.
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