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  • The Divorce Seekers - The Intimate True Story of a Nevada Divorce Ranch Wrangler

    by William L. McGee, Sandra V. McGee ...
    What Was Really Going On At Those Nevada Divorce Ranches?Reno 1947. Divorce seekers by the thousands were running to the "Divorce Capital of the World" for a six-week divorce. If they had the money and the need for privacy, they stayed on one of the dude ranches around town. Someone called those dude ranches divorce ranches and the name stuck.My name's Bill McGee.From 1947 to 1949, I was the dude ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Crossroads - Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946

    by William L. McGee, Sandra V. McGee ...
    The Definitive Memoir of the 1946 Atomic Bomb Tests at Bikini"While updating this atomic memoir for the 80th anniversary in July 2026, I had a sobering thought: likely few Crossroads participants were alive today. I'm proud to have played a small part in preserving this history few know about today."– Sandra V. McGee, co-author of Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget!On 1 July 1946, the wor... ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft

    Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII, #1

    by William L. McGee ...
    Series Book 1 - Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII
    "A deeply engaging biographical history of the World War II ship-to-shore landing craft and their crews. . . . A welcome and informative addition to personal and academic World War II history and reference collections."– Midwest Book ReviewVolume I in award-winning author William L. McGee's Pacific war series is a biographical history of the revolutionary amphibious landing craft of World War II – ... Read more

    $14.95 USD

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  • Neptune's Inferno

    The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors comes a “vivid and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal.”—San Antonio Express-NewsThe Battle of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Final Patrol

    True Stories of World War II Submarines

    by Don Keith ...
    During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners.But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost 60 percent of Japanese shipping losses, and were a major factor in winning the war. 16 U.S. submarines - and one German U-Boat - that saw action during WWII are now open ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sunday in Hell

    Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute

    by Bill McWilliams ...
    The author of A Return to Glory constructs a compellingly detailed and panoramic history of the fateful day that ushered the United States into WWII.Using long-established historical records and contemporary journals, as well as recently released wartime documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day That Will Live in Infamy. Told from the points of view ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hellcats

    The Epic Story of World War II's Most Daring Submarine Raid

    by Peter Sasgen ...
    A heart-stopping true tale of a submarine mission aimed at destroying Japan’s merchant marine lifeline and ending World War II.By 1945, the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific had sunk over a thousand enemy cargo ships and tankers supplying the food, weapons, and oil Japan needed to continue to fight. Yet this once mighty merchant fleet continued to thrive in the Sea of Japan, where, ... Read more

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  • Hidden Warships

    Find World War II's Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships

    by Nicholas A. Veronico ...
    A photo-filled tour of wrecked warships around the world, with their stories recounted in "a wonderfully clear [and] lively style" ( Seattle Post Intelligencer).Sunk by enemy fire, scuttled, or run aground, the number of World War II-era battleships, cruisers, submarines, and other warships that ended their service on the bottom of the world's oceans and seas is enormous. In the decades since the ... Read more

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  • Silent Service

    Submarine Warfare from World War II to the Present?An Illustrated and Oral History

    by Philip Kaplan ...
    See the secret and dangerous world of submarine life and warfare like never before.From the ingenious but impractical designs of seventeenth-century inventors through the nuclear-powered submarines of today, this heavily illustrated volume traces the history of the silent force and the elite corps of men who fought and often died beneath the waves. Though fully describing the development of the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • South Pacific Destroyer

    The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf

    by Estate of R S Crenshaw ...
    Today only a select few know firsthand what it is like to feel their ship shudder from the blast of their own guns, watch enemy guns flash back, and see friendly ships erupt in flames. Russell Crenshaw is one of those few. His riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider’s perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Kaiten

    Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine And the First American Ship It Sank in WWII

    by Michael Mair, Joy Waldron ...
    In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa exploded. Japan’s secret weapon, the Kaiten—a manned suicide submarine—had succeeded in its first mission.The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn’t know of its existence. And the Americans kept it secret as well. Embarrassed by the attack, the U.S. Navy refused ... Read more

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  • Pacific Lst 791

    A Gallant Ship and Her Hardworking Coast Guard Crew at the Invasion of Okinawa

    by Stephen C. Stripe ...
    On the evening of March 31, 1945, hours before the invasion of Okinawa, Max Stripe, Billy Thornhill, and five other crewmen manned the forward twin 40 mm mount of LST 791. Riley was stationed up in the Conn, tracking enemy planes from bogey reports that came in over the radio. An increase in air attacks could be expected at sunset and dawn becausefor a brief timeaircraft could see the ships ... Read more

    $8.69 USD