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  • Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

    Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

    by Edward J. Marolda, R Blake Dunnavent, Navy Dept. (U.S.), Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.) ...
    Series Book 5 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This historical volume introduces us to the Navy’s river force and American advisers to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. Navy and Marines securing the Rung Sat that was owned by Viet Cong early in the War offered our navy a river patrol craft that allowed for early naval intelligence attempts. Riverine warfare training because a mission for training sailors at home in addition to SEALS and ... Read more

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  • Arming the Fleet Highlights

    Providing Our Warfighters the Decisive Advantage

    by Wallace T. Martin, Navy Dept. (U.S.) ...
     Arming The Fleet (ATF) Highlights includes very current and basic information on the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) and is 159 pages in ePub file format (76 pages in print) versus the larger comprehensive book which contains 402 pages in ePub file format (208 pages in print) and covers historical accomplishments from 1943 to today. All data contained in the smaller Highlights ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    by Norman Polmar, Edward J. Marolda ...
    Series Book 4 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved essential to the conduct of Rolling Thunder. Exploiting the inherent flexibility and mobility of ... Read more

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    The Epic Story of History's Most Extraordinary Evacuation

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  • The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and Marine POWS in the Vietnam War

    Navy and Marine POWS in the Vietnam War

    by Stuart I. Rochester ...
    Series Book 6 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    The unconventional nature of the war and the unforgiving environment of Southeast Asia inflicted special hardships on the Vietnam-era POWs, whether they spent captivity in the jungles of the South, or the jails of the North. This book describes their experiences—the similarities and the differences—and how the POWs coped with untreated wounds and other malaises, systematic torture, and boredom. ... Read more

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  • Operations Most Secret

    SOE: The Malayan Theatre

    by Ian Trenowden ...
    Little is known and much less has been written about the Malayan theatre of operations of SOE from 1942-45. In this, his second book, Ian Trenowden, working closely with the wartime commander of Force 136, Group B, has built up a surprisingly complete picture of those operations and traces the evolution of the local SOE headquarters from a single desk in London’s Baker Street to the independent ... Read more

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  • The Longest Battle

    The War at Sea 1939–1945

    by Richard Hough ...
    This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history'The Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endurance and unremitting need to face danger - danger from increasingly lethal weapons and an ever-increasing need for vigilance by day and night.'The war at sea - the longest battle of the Second World War - never ceased. From the Arctic Circle to the ... Read more

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  • Waterloo

    Wellington's Victory & Napoleon's Last Campaign

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from "a remarkably good writer" ( The New York Times). It was the greatest of battles—the defining military engagement of the nineteenth century that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. This epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the ... Read more

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  • 76 Hours

    A Novel of Tarawa

    by Larry Alexander ...
    The gripping historical novel of the invasion of Tarawa by US Marines in World War II, from bestselling author, journalist, and historian Larry Alexander.The island of Tarawa, a tiny spit of sand out in the middle of the Pacific, teemed with five hundred pillboxes filled with artillery pieces and highly motivated Japanese soldiers. Their commanding officer encouraged his troops, saying, “It would ... Read more

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  • A Wing and a Prayer

    The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

    by Harry H. Crosby ...
    "A compelling account of the air war against Germany" written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV's Masters of the Air ( Publishers Weekly).They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that ... Read more

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  • It's A Strange Place, England

    by Jack Strange ...
    Series Book 2 - Jack's Strange Tales
    This small book looks at some of the strange things that make England unique, starting with the English language itself and looking at concepts such as sports, ghosts and the English love for eccentricity - like the sportsman who rode his horse naked.As well as strange people, the book looks at strange places. For example, there is the canal across Southern England that was dug to keep back ... Read more

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  • Gangsters vs. Nazis

    How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America

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