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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
Category: Military
The strategies, tactics, decisions, personalities and controversies that turned America's audacious gamble in the South Pacific into its first successful offensive of World War II Written with the storytelling drive that made Jim Hornfischer's first two books award winners and word-of-mouth favourites, ...Show more
Service - A Navy SEAL at War by Marcus Luttrell; James D. Hornfischer (As told to)
Category: Military
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him-and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, h ...Show more
Ship of Ghosts by James Hornfischer
Category: Military
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Son, we're going to Hell." The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR's favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Paci ...Show more
The Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
Category: Military
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can." With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Islan ...Show more
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