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  • THE BATTLE OF TINIAN
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    THE BATTLE OF TINIAN
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    The authors have created a competent, well-written, and very well-illustrated overview history of an important but lesser-known battle of World War II in the Pacific." — National Maritime Historical Society At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in the Pacific Oce...

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  • THE DIEPPE RAID
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    THE DIEPPE RAID
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A stunning collection of photos providing rare insight into the death and destruction inflicted upon Allied forces during the Dieppe Raid. As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers, tasked to silence the German gun batteries that f...

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  • SAIPAN 1944
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    SAIPAN 1944
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment. After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway and other islands in the Pacific, by 1944, the Japanese had been pushed back onto the defe...

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  • CORREGIDOR
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    CORREGIDOR
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand and Burma had been invaded and islands across the Pacific captured. But one place, one tiny island fortress garrisoned by a few thousand hungry and exhausted men, refused to be beaten. That island fortress was Corregidor which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay and controlled all sea-borne access to Ma...

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  • DUNKIRK EVACUATION, OPERATION DYNAMO
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    DUNKIRK EVACUATION, OPERATION DYNAMO
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    "Takes you right to the scene of the action in late May and early June 1940, when more than 300,000 soldiers were saved from capture or death." — Rambles The "miracle" of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to...

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  • THE DOOLITTLE RAID
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    THE DOOLITTLE RAID
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A pictorial history of America's response to Pearl Harbor, with "hundreds of photos of the various stages of the raid" ( ModelingMadness). On April 1, 1942, less than four months after the world was stunned by the attack on Pearl Harbor, sixteen US aircraft took to the skies to exact retribution. Their objective was not merely to attack Japan, but to bomb its capital. The peopl...

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  • THE DIEPPE RAID
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    THE DIEPPE RAID
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A stunning collection of photos providing rare insight into the death and destruction inflicted upon Allied forces during the Dieppe Raid. As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers, tasked to silence the German gun batteries that f...

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  • SAIPAN 1944
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    SAIPAN 1944
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment. "By pairing such sobering accounts with period photography, Saipan 1944 offers a brief but unvarnished glimpse at the horrors of combat in the Pacific Theatre." — The Northern Mariner After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and ...

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  • BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF
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    BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    By early 1944, offensives undertaken by the United States armed forces had driven the Japanese from many of their conquests in the south and central Pacific. The next American move was to sever Tokyo’s communications with the remaining Japanese garrisons and interdict the supplies of raw materials essential to Japan’s war effort. Before this could be achieved it was considered ...

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