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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Navy in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is tasked to change the course of the war. Halsey, a maverick, goes on the offensive and appoints a host of new destroyer commanders, including a wild-card named Harmon Wolf. An American Indian from a Minnesota reservation, Wolf has never fit in with the traditional Navy officer corps. But under Halsey, Wolf's aggressive...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Serving aboard the Allied destroyer USS Malloy, Executive Officer Connie Miles discovers that her much-admired captain is losing his mind under the pressure of unrelenting Japanese suicide bomber attacks.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hearing rumors of a formidable Japanese battleship capable of adversely shifting power in World War II, Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond is charged with leading the first American submarine into the Inland Sea to stop the seemingly invincible ship.
7) Unrestricted warfare: how a new breed of officers led the submarine force to victory in World War II
Author
Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2000
Physical Desc
x, 310 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers went to battle hamstrung by conservative peacetime training and plagued by defective torpedoes. Drawing extensively from now declassified files, Japanese archives, and the testimony of surviving veterans, James DeRose has written a fascinating account of the men and vessels responsible for the only successful...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 926 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (Evan Thomas). Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest naval battle in history; Douglas MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a character for the ages. John Adams called him the "most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American...
Author
Series
WWII volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxix, 446 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Examines the role of citizen privateers, seamen who raided British trade ships around the Atlantic Ocean, in America's battle for independence from Britain, detailing their strategic and political significance, as well as the part they played in the slave trade.
17) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on a true story--P.T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home islands of Japan-and victory. At the heart of the fleet are...