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"Mary Wishram, an orphaned Yakima tribal member, aches for her brother who suffers in a POW camp in the Philippine Islands and her Japanese friends who languish in a relocation center. Determined to end the war by any means necessary, she employs her language skills to become a spy. Leaving Camp Pendleton for the South Pacific, she faces escalating threats of peril to help bring her loved ones home. John Painted Horse, a proud Navajo, struggles with...
Author
Series
World War II novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japan's empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself--the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle will feature some of the most...
4) The pilots
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
A novel told through a collection of vignettes follows the adventures of boyhood friends who take different military paths, a combat-weary flight surgeon, a captain with a troubled past, and a woman who affects all of them.
6) Fire and ice
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A thriller on a married couple of doctors on a boat, dispensing medical care to islanders in the Pacific. When the wife and their daughter are abducted by the wounded captain of a tanker engaged in smuggling, the husband hires a force of Chinese gangsters and mounts a rescue. A first novel.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive naphtha. The cargo alone makes the journey perilous, with the entire crew aware that one careless moment could lead to disaster. But yet another sort...
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Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
Author
Series
World War II novels volume 4
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island.
10) The far reaches
Author
Series
Josh Thurlow novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It's 1943 and World War II rages on. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is on hand at the invasion of Tarawa, as the U.S. Navy begins the grand strategy of throwing her marines at island after bloody island across the Pacific. But the young Americans go up against fanatical defenders, who revel in snipers, big guns, and human wave attacks from which there is no escape save death. Critically wounded, Josh expects to die. Instead, Sister Mary Kathleen,...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Jeff Shaara recounts in electrifying detail the U.S. Navy's surge to defend its country in what will become known as one of the most definitive and heroic examples of combat ever seen: the Battle of Midway. In this biting new tale, Shaara shares the stories of all ranks and the unique sacrifices each man is compelled to bravely make for the sake of country, freedom, and honour. Author of "To Wake the Giant."
Spring 1942. The United States is reeling...
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Publisher
Campfire/Kalyani Navyug Media Pvt Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Relive World War Two, as it happened in the East, through the eyes of the servicemen and civilians on both sides of the conflict. Follow the invasion of Manchuria by japan in 1937, right through to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Witness the end of the British Empire, the rise and fall of Japan and destruction the likes of which the world must never know again." -- Back cover.
