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  • Battle of Manila

    Nadir of Japanese Barbarism, 3 February–3 March 1945

    by Miguel Miranda ...
    Series series History of Terror
    This "extensively researched and well-illustrated" history recounts the bloody fight to liberate Manila from occupation during WWII ( WWII History Magazine).For nearly four years during the Second World War, Japanese occupation had devastated the Philippines. Then, in 1944, General MacArthur led a massive army of American and Filipino forces determined to take back the island nation. Essential to ... Read more

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  • Advances in Soft Computing

    16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2017, Enseneda, Mexico, October 23-28, 2017, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Félix Castro, Sabino Miranda-Jiménez, Miguel González-Mendoza ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The two-volume set LNAI 10632 and 10633 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2017, held in Enseneda, Mexico, in October 2017.The total of 60 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions.The contributions were organized in the following topical sections:Part I: neural networks; ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Advances in Computational Intelligence

    16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2017, Enseneda, Mexico, October 23-28, 2017, Proceedings, Part II

    Edited by Félix Castro, Sabino Miranda-Jiménez, Miguel González-Mendoza ...
    Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The two-volume set LNAI 10632 and 10633 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2017, held in Enseneda, Mexico, in October 2017.The total of 60 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions.The contributions were organized in the following topical sections:Part I: neural networks; ... Read more

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  • American Guerrilla

    The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and Became the True "Father" of Army Special Forces

    by Mike Guardia ...
    A main selection of the Military Book Club and a selection of the History Book ClubWith his parting words, "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of more than 22,000 men. For the next ... Read more

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  • How to Lose a War at Sea

    Foolish Plans and Great Naval Blunders

    by Bill Fawcett ...
    Series Book 10 - How to Lose Series
    An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disastersFrom the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of insufficient planning, overinflated egos, espionage, or miscalculations; others were caused by ideas that didn't hold water in the first place. In glorious ... Read more

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  • Douglas MacArthur

    American Warrior

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    A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim—from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & ChurchillDouglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to ... Read more

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  • The Longest Year

    America at War and at Home in 1944

    by Victor Brooks ...
    A meticulous exploration of one of the most important years in American history.The D-Day invasion, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself.Brooks also argues that only the particular ... Read more

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  • Victory in the Pacific

    Pearl Harbour to the Fall of Okinawa

    by Karen Farrington ...
    On 7 December 1941, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbour. Simultaneously, they launched all-out assaults on Malaya, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Japan's sphere of influence spread at a phenomenal rates and it seemed the their dream of empire was about to be realized.Featuring remarkable photographs and useful maps*, Victory in the Pacific* examines how the tide of Japanese victory was turned ... Read more

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  • Pacific Onslaught

    7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943

    by Paul Kennedy ...
    A look at the early years of the Pacific conflict in World War II, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.Japan had mighty ambitions: to control the Western Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor devastated their primary obstacle—the American Pacific fleet—and they swept across the region. What ensued was a bitter struggle in which many thousands of soldiers ... Read more

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  • The Pacific War

    The Strategy, Politics, and Players That Won the War

    by William B. Hopkins ...
    This "important comprehensive study" of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory ( Roanoke Times).Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological ... Read more

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  • The Pacific War

    From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

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    The Pacific War brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians.From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was marked by amazing tactical innovations, such as those in amphibious warfare, and horrific battles that raged in the unforgiving climate of the island jungles ... Read more

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