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  • USMC M4A2 Sherman vs Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go

    The Central Pacific 1943–44

    by Romain Cansière, Ed Gilbert ...
    Series Book 108 - Duel
    The different national tank doctrines of the United States and Imperial Japan resulted in a terrible mismatch of the predominant tank types in the crucial Central Pacific campaign.A flawed Japanese doctrine emphasized light infantry support tanks, often used in small numbers. Tactically, tanks were often frittered away in armored versions of the familiar banzai attacks. Meanwhile, the Americans ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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  • Battle of Guadalcanal (True Combat)

    by Al Cimino ...
    Three days later a Japanese force landed at night. They ambushed a 26-man patrol, cutting the Marines down with hidden machine guns. The three survivors who made it back told their fellow Marines that the wounded had been hacked to death with sabres. From then on, the Marines decided they would be every bit as brutal...Read about the US Marine Landings on Guadalcanal; the desperate fight to take ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Islands of Destiny

    The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

    by John Prados ...
    The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted.Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Pearl Harbor 1941

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 26 - Raid
    In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the American aircraft carriers they hoped to destroy were not present. In this new study of the raid, ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War

    by Mark Stille ...
    A highly illustrated examination of the key ships, tactics and operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the War in the Pacific in World War II.The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world at the start of World War II, and came to dominate the Pacific in the early months of the war. This was a remarkable turnaround for a navy that only began to modernize in 1868 ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Fight for the Pacific, 1945

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    On 19 February 1945, Operation Detachment began with US marine forces storming Iwo Jima, aiming to capture the island and its airfields. This was the first campaign on Japanese soil and would result in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. A brutal example of war at all costs, the defending garrison fought to almost the last man; it was a fight they couldn't hope to win against the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bolt Action: Armies of the United States

    by Warlord Games, Massimo Torriani ...
    Series Book 2 - Bolt Action
    With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players now have all the information they need to field the varied military forces of the United States of America. Entering the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States immediately went to war on several fronts. In Europe and Africa, the Americans battled against the Germans and Italians, while in the Pacific the men of the Army and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruisers 1941–45

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 176 - New Vanguard
    Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy's heavy cruisers were fast and heavily armed.Like the other vessels of the Japanese Navy, the heavy cruisers were technologically superior to and far more innovative than their Allied rivals, whom they met in many of the major Pacific Theatre battles, including ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • M4 (76mm) Sherman Medium Tank 1943–65

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 73 - New Vanguard
    The M4 Sherman tank was the mainstay of the Western allies between 1942 and 1945.Fast and modern it was a big success and was transported as far afield as Russia and North Africa. The American Chief of Staff claimed in November 1943 it was 'hailed widely as the best tank on the battlefield today…'. However, by the Normandy invasion of June 1944 this was not the case: the new German heavy tanks ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • T-34-85 vs M26 Pershing

    Korea 1950

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 32 - Duel
    Using war time documents just revealed at the time, Steven Zaloga sheds light on the crucial tank battles of the Korean War as the finest tanks of the rival superpowers' battled for supremacy.A hotly-debated topic amongst tank buffs is of the relative merits of the Soviet and American tanks of World War II. The Soviet-equipped North Korean Peoples Army initially dominated the battlefield with the ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • The Road to Victory

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    by Dale Dye, Robert O'Neill ...
    No war has tested the resolve of the American people and her fighting men as did the battles in the Pacific. This book is a visual testament to the key battles fought in the Pacific.On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • USN Cruiser vs IJN Cruiser

    Guadalcanal 1942

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 22 - Duel
    Although the war in the Pacific is usually considered a carrier war, it was the cruisers that dominated the early fighting.This thrilling duel presents the cruiser clashes during the battles for Guadalcanal, highlighting the Battle of Savo Island and the Battle of Cape Esperance. The first was a Japanese victory that resulted in the loss of four Allied cruisers. However, in the latter, the ... Read more

    $15.09 USD