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Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Edition 2012. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 2012. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Owner's name, address written on back cover.

Trade paperback. First printing [stated]. 414, [3] p. Illustrations. Notes. bibliography. Index. Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: good. First Printing. 22 cm, 160, wraps, illus., maps, bookplate. Introduction by Barrie Pitt.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'Extraordinary.serious naval history and a detective story, told with passion.'The Times 'Vividly detailed.compelling yetcomprehensive.'Los Angeles Times 'Simply outstanding.'Booklist (starred review) 'Gripping. This yarn has it all.'USA Today The sinking of the USS Indianapolis is still the biggest single loss of life at seato be suffered by the United States navy. From a crew of 1,196 men, only 317 survived. Torpedoed by the Japanese, dying of thirst and eaten by sharks. For 70 years, the story of the USS Indianapolis has been told as a sinking story, or a shark story, or a story of military justice gone awry. But in Indianapolis, the true story of this mighty vessel is revealed.As the USS Arizonaembodies the beginning of the Pacific war, the USS Indianapolis embodies its fiery end. From its bridge, Admiral Raymond Spruance devised and executed the island-hopping campaign that decimated Japans Navy and Army. Its crew led the fleet from Pearl Harbour to the islands of Japan, notching an unbroken string of victories in an exotic and uncharted theatre of war.When the time came for President Harry S. Truman to deal Japan the decisive blow, Indianapolis answered the call. And super-spy Major Robert S. Furman climbed aboard, secreting the components of the worlds first atomic bomb.Four days after delivering her ominous cargo to the island of Tinian, the Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine, with nearly 900 men lost. The captain, Charles B. McVay III, was wrongly court-martialled for negligence over the sinking. Decades after these events, the survivors of the Indianapolis, as well as the Japanese submarine commander who sank it, joined together to finally exonerate McVay. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Unknown. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Como nuevo. : En vísperas de la mayor victoria de Estados Unidos en el Pacífico, un evento catastrófico interrumpe el curso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cambiando para siempre las reglas del combate. Un experimento militar en el año 2021 ha lanzado una armada multinacional liderada por Estados Unidos a 1942, justo en medio de la fuerza naval estadounidense que se dirige al atolón de Midway, lo que iba a ser el triunfo más espectacular de Estados Unidos en toda la guerra. Miles murieron en el caos, pero las ondas expansivas no habían hecho más que empezar. Estos veteranos de Pearl Harbor, liderados por los almirantes Nimitz, Halsey y Spruance, nunca han visto un helicóptero, ni un enlace por satélite, ni un arma nuclear. Aunque abrazan la impresionante potencia de fuego de la armada, pueden encontrar a los marineros del siglo XXI lejos de ser aceptables. La jubilación inicial ante la noticia de que los aliados ganarían la guerra se ve rápidamente atenuada por la escalofriante constatación de que los propios viajeros en el tiempo, por su mera presencia, han anulado la historia. La celebración se convierte en pavor cuando surge la posibilidad de que otros elementos de la fuerza de ataque del siglo XXI también hayan hecho el viaje, y ahora podrían estar ayudando a Yamamoto y a los japoneses. Lo que ocurra después es una incógnita y la pesadilla de todos. EAN: 9780345457134 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencia Ficción|Historia Título: Weapons of Choice Autor: John Birmingham Editorial: Random House Worlds Idioma: en Páginas: 512 Formato: libro de bolsillo.

Wraps. Second Edition. 897-924 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Some illustrations in color is the thirty-third issue of a series published in 96 weekly parts. Sir Basil Henry Liddel Hart was listed as the Editor-in-Chief but died before the first issue was published. This was produced in co-operation with the Imperial War Museum (England), and utilized the expertise of the staff and the world class research facilities in the preparation of this series. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Book Club Edition. 415 p. Occasional Footnotes. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific.

Soft cover. 24p. + Plus Photographic illustrations of the six admirals: King, Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance, Ingersoll, and Stark; and folding example of a report on the fitness of officers. Decorative title page. 8vo. Original full gold stamped and printed green wraps. Nice copy. Coldwar/Economics 10 0.0.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American, British, German and French: Field-Marshal the Earl Alexander, E.H.H. Allenby, Claude Auchinleck, Field-Marshal Sir, Omar N. Bradley, General of the Army, Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount, Karl Doenitz, Admiral, Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Chief Marshal, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army, Ferdinand Foch, Bernard Freyberg, Lieutenant-General Lord, Heinz Guderian, General, Douglas Haig, William F. Halsey, Fleet Admiral, Ian Hamilton, Arthur Harris, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir, Paul von Hindenburg, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Joseph Joffre, Alphonse Juin, Marshal, Mustafa Kemal, Ivan Koniev, Marshal, Erich Ludendorff, Douglas C. MacArthur, General of the Army, John Monash, Bernard L. Montgomery, of Alamein, Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Burma, Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, George S. Patton, General, John J. Pershing, Philippe Petain, Erwin Rommel, Field-Marshal, William Joseph Slim, Field-Marshal the Viscount, Carl A. Spaatz, General, Raymond A. Spruance, Admiral, Joseph W. Stilwell, General, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, Hugh Trenchard, Erich Von Falkenhayn, Erich Von Manstein, Field Marshal, Gerd Von Rundstedt, Field-Marshal, Archibald Wavell, Field Marshall Earl, Isoroku Yamamoto, Admiral & Georgii Zhukov, Marshal. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Zustand: very good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good trade paperback. Clean pages. Sticker residue on cover. Sm4to. 80pgs.

8vo, stiff paper wraps gilt lettering and decoration; 24 pages, b&w photographic illustrations of the six admirals: King, Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance, Ingersoll, and Stark, some fading else very good/o.

Zustand: Guter Zustand. ***Ansichtskarte USS Hayler DD-997, Spruance Class*** ungelaufen, guter Zustand | Preis: 6.00 EUR | Keine MwSt.-Ausweisung, differenzbesteuert gem.§25a UStG | Versandkosten: Kostenloser Versand | Motive / Thematik > Verkehr > Schiffe > Kriegsschiffe / Marine > weitere Kriegsschiffe.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint. Edited by Clarke H. Kawakami and Roger Pineau. Foreword by Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Mass market paperback. A few nicks along the edges, wrinkling along the spine, pages toned, about near fine.

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First edition. Hardcover. October 1948. Includes an original limited edition Benton Spruance lithograph that measures 10" x 7.5." The lithograph is in fine condition and is signed by Spruance in pencil in the bottom right corner of the sheet. This issue also features articles on John Brown, Rudyard Kipling, and others. A very near fine copy. No dust jacket as issued.

Leatherette. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No dust jacket issued. First Printing [Stated]. 175, [1] pages. Color endpapers. Maps. Illustrations (some with color). Bibliography. Index. Decorative front cover. This is one of The Epic of Flight series, edited by Jim Hicks. Clark G. Reynolds was the curator of the museum aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown at Patriots Point, South Carolina and had taught at the U.S. Naval Academy. Dr. Clark Gilbert Reynolds, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (December 11, 1939 - December 10, 2005) was an historian of naval warfare, with an interest in the development of U.S. naval aviation. He made contributions to the fields of world history, strategic history, and the history of maritime civilizations. Reynolds went on the Duke University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964. Reynolds began his career at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964-1968. He then went to the University of Maine. From 1976 to 1978, he was Professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point New York. For most of the decade between 1978 and 1988, he was an independent scholar, working as the curator and historian at the Patriot's Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1988, he was appointed professor of history and served as chairman of the History Department. In 1999, he was appointed Distinguished Professor and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2002. E. T. Wooldridge, Jr, the Curator for Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum was a consultant on this volume. He was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and was a fighter pilot aboard several aircraft carriers, including the U.S.S. Independence and the U. S. S. Enterprise. The editors of Time-Life Books have produced another exciting series: The Epic of Flight. The Carrier War is brought to you in extraordinary detail through vivid photography and engaging, informative text. The U.S. Navy has dominated aircraft carrier warfare since the 1920s. Conceived to provide scouting "eyes" for the fleet, the carrier evolved an attack capability that rivaled that of the battleships during the interwar period. Offensive tactics were developed during annual "fleet problems" by innovative admirals, notably Joseph Mason Reeves, and a small cadre of younger naval aviators led by John H. Towers. In World War II, the carrier became the major arbiter of American seapower. U.S. carrier forces have engaged in five principal roles and missions of varying priority according to operational objectives: (1) fleet support, using scouting planes for reconnaissance and fighter planes as defensive interceptors; (2) destruction of the enemy fleet, especially opposing carriers, with attack planes (bombers); (3) protection of merchant shipping as defensive convoy escorts or offensively in hunter killer groups, against submarines; (4) destruction of enemy merchant shipping at sea or at anchor; and (5) projecting aerial firepower inland. The function of the latter objective has been twofold: supporting amphibious assaults with close air support of infantry over the beach, protective fighter cover against enemy planes, and interdiction of enemy transportation systems (bridges, roads, rail lines) in order to isolate the beachhead; and striking strategic targetsâ"airfields, army installations, port facilities, and industrial plants. The sine qua non of carrier warfare is fleet support. The symbiotic interrelationship between carriers and gun ships exists in their mutual defense against enemy air, submarine, and surface ship attacks. Tactically, the vulnerability of World War II carrier forces exposed to air attack caused them to disperse in order to split enemy attacksâ"during 1942-43 against Japan in the Pacific when U.S. carrier strength was weak. Nevertheless, several carriers were temporarily concentrated during the 1942 naval battles at the Coral Sea, Midway, and around Guadalcanal. In overwhelming strength, carriers were concentrated permanently for the Central Pacific War campaign of 1943-45. At the Battle of Midway, three U.S. carriers, superbly coordinated by Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, sank all four Japanese carriers to the loss of one American "flattop." Otherwise, carrier strength on both sides was whittled down while supporting amphibious and island struggles in the Coral Sea-Guadalcanal region. When a powerful Fast Carrier Attack Force was created late in 1943 for the offensive, it was organized into three or four task groups, each made up of three or four carriers plus escorting gun ships in a circular screen. Under the brilliant tactical command of Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, the fast carriers neutralized Japan's air and naval bases at Rabaul and Truk, annihilated its carrier planes in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and sank its last operational carriers at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In all subsequent amphibious campaignsâ"Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawaâ"the carriers battled land based Japanese kamikazes, striking their airfields and other strategic targets. Most close air support in the Pacific, and North Africa and the Mediterranean as well, was provided by the small, slower escort carriers. U.S. carriers helped defeat Germany's U boats in the Battle of the Atlantic by utilizing antisubmarine hunter killer groups, each an independent force of one escort carrier and a screen of destroyers. The major controversies over carrier warfare have been caused by opponents within the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, and Congress claiming the carrier to be vulnerable to air and submarine attacks and thus a waste of defense expenditures. These arguments have yet to be proven.

Hardcover. [x], 371 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index [by Douglas Matthews]. A lively one-volume history of the strategies and actions in which the navies of the Allied and Axis powers were involved in World War II, covering every category of naval conflict and presenting views of the war that will help veterans understand the meaning of campaigns in which they served. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling, creases, edge tears and chips. Minor edge soiling. First U. S. Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated].

Trade paperback. Presumed first edition/first printing. 232 p. Illustrations (some with color). Maps. Chronology. References. Annotated Bibliography. This is one of the Cassell's Fields of Battle series. FOreword by Richard Holmes. Before Midway, the force of the Imperial Japanese Navy was almost unchallenged in the Pacific. This titanic naval battle was to turn the situation around, and give control to the US Navy, only six months after their appalling losses at Pearl Harbor-a victory that was only to be won with the loss of the USS Yorktown. This book is a brand new look at the historic battle, which for the first time put the Japanese on the back foot. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear and soiling.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. First printing [stated]. x, 220 p. Illustrations. Index. A 50th anniversary re-creation of one of World War II's bloodiest battles--a triumph for America and a landmark history. The author, who fought as a Marine in many Pacific battles, retells this epic story of war from both sides, with portraits of Japanese who committed hari-kiri in its last moments.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 21.5cm, xiii,236p., map, illustrations from photographs, index, bibliography, blue cloth with gilt spine titles, signed by the author, a very good copy in a good jacket (S7).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Second printing [stated]. x, 341, [1] pages. Illustrations. Ex-library copy with some of the usual library markings. Includes Introduction, Appendixes, Bibliography, and Index. The narrative is divided into six chronological parts. Also includes 4 maps, and 33 black and white illustrations. Russell Spurr was based in Hong Kong for more than 20 years as the China and Far East correspondent for the London Daily Express and ABC Radio Network, and the chief correspondent and deputy editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was one of the first Western correspondents to report from Peking after the establishment in 1949 of the People's Republic of China. During World War II Spurr was in the Royal Indian Navy, and served in motor gunboats through most of the Burma campaign. After the Japanese surrender, he was assigned to Kure, Japan, where he first viewed the vacant dock built for the Yamato and began to pursue the story of its demise. Spurr is also the author of the highly acclaimed Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea. The author sets the story of the Battleship Yamato against the background of Japanese suicide war tactics. He has recorded eyewitness accounts from the men involved, Japanese and Americans, from top admirals to fighter pilots to junior ships' gunners. He portrays the reaction of the sailors as they receive and carry out the orders to attack--and to die. He probes the politics and mentality of the Japanese leadership and the morale and spirit of the fighting men and the nation. What emerges is more than a story of a sortie or a ship. A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945 is a 1981 military history book by Russell Spurr about the suicide mission of the Japanese battleship Yamato against the American Pacific Fleet during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II. Yamato was the largest battleship in the world, and Japan sacrificed her in a final, desperate attempt to halt the Allied advance on the Japanese archipelago. Spurr, a British journalist and editor of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review, interviewed Japanese and Americans involved with Yamato's last mission, and drew on Japanese naval documents and records to write the book. He tells the story from both the Japanese and American points of view. A Glorious Way to Die was generally well received by critics and historians. American author and journalist Charles Kaiser wrote in The New York Times that the book's strength is "its ability to re-create the fear the Japanese engendered with their desperation tactics", which resulted in American perception that they were all prepared to fight to the death. A reviewer in the Canadian journal Pacific Affairs commended Spurr's "well-balanced treatment of historical evidence and his workmanship in reconstructing the tragic event", and said that the book "deserves wide reading". Construction of Yamato began in secrecy at the Kure naval base in 1937. She was completed soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, but had already been rendered obsolete by the Japanese themselves after their successful carrier-based attacks at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere. Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, with nine 18.1-inch guns with a range of over 22 miles,[became, in the words of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reviewer, a "70,000-ton white elephant the Japanese did not quite know what to do with". In March 1945, after the Americans had invaded Okinawa and all but eliminated the Japanese Navy, a final kamikaze mission called Operation Ten-Go (Operation Heaven One) was conceived by Japanese commanders at Combined Fleet to repulse the Allied advance on the Japanese archipelago. The plan was to send Yamato with eight support destroyers and a cruiser to Okinawa. Yamato would only be given enough fuel to reach Okinawa, and would have no air cover as all available airplanes would be used for a series of kamikaze attacks on US aircraft carriers. At Okinawa Yamato and her support craft would beach themselves and assist the island defenders. Without air cover there was little chance of Yamato reaching her destination, but, according to American author and journalist Charles Kaiser, the Japanese high command were "perfectly prepared to sacrifice the remnants of [their] fleet to avoid the stigma of surrender". Not all Japanese naval officers agreed with Combined Fleet's decision to sacrifice Yamato, and while they had no choice but to comply, some committed one act of defiance by secretly supplying the battleship and the rest of her fleet with enough fuel to return home. Yamato set sail for Okinawa from the Kure naval base on March 29, 1945. On April 7, 1945, the Americans intercepted the Japanese fleet, 200 miles from Okinawa. Using 280 bombers and torpedo planes in three waves of attacks from nine aircraft carriers, they sank the battleship and five of her support ships within three hours.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 24 cm. 274 pages. Illustrations. Appendix A. Appendix B. Source References Notes. Index. Front DJ flap price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Pencil erasure residue on half-title page. Richard Alexander Hough (15 May 1922 - 7 October 1999) was a British author and historian specializing in maritime history. Hough won the Daily Express Best Book of the Sea Award in 1972. For a part of their political careers, Churchill and Roosevelt were concerned with the preparation for war of their nations' fleets and with the pursuit of war at sea. An authoritative dual portrait of the two men studied in maritime terms. Derived from a Kirkus review: A survey of the separate careers in naval administration of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill that ultimately converged in their close-knit prosecution of WW II. Hough handles these two giants strictly in relation to maritime issues. The story is told in counterpoint--alternating chapters chronicle Churchill's, then Roosevelt's development--until the creation of their mutual strategies against Hitler and Japan, with the neat resolution of triumph over tyranny. Roosevelt's career leapt as a result of his successful administration of the Navy, while Churchill went out of office in disgrace to face his "wilderness years" as a result of the disastrous Dardanelles expedition. Whatever variations in their styles in mobilizing their forces stemmed from one fundamental difference: Roosevelt's ease in dealing with naval matters came from a strong inner sense of security, while Churchill's pugnacity in naval affairs arose out of his insecurities. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Risse. Trenta ammiragli, dall'antichità ai giorni nostri, trenta dettagliati ritratti di coloro che - da Temistocle ad Angelo Mariani - hanno condotto le grandi guerre sui mari. Alle storie di questi leggendari personaggi si accompagnano l'evoluzione delle tecniche della guerra navale e i diversi scenari strategici e marittimi che Da Frè tratteggia abilmente. Così, per esempio, la storia di Formione (circa 480-428 a.C.) non potrà essere distinta dall'evoluzione dell'impiego della trireme ateniese; la carriera di Raymond Spruance (1886-1969) risente della rivoluzione tecnica del 1900-1915 (corazzata monocalibro, radio, aereo, sommergibile.) e della nuova dottrina aeronavale sviluppata tra le due guerre mondiali. Quasi 2500 anni di battaglie sui mari rivivono attraverso le gesta di coloro che ne hanno deciso le sorti.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Guild Book Edition. Hardcover A powerful, incisive portrait of the men who carried out the Japanese suicide missions during the Pacific campaign of World War II, and their role in prolonging the war. Between the early months of 1944 and V-J Day, the Kamikazes inflicted more damage on American naval vessels and caused more casualties to American Fighting men than any single Pacific land battle. Inspired by Admiral Ohnishi who conceived the plot from ancient Japanese history's 'divine wind', these superbly trained, fiercely obedient, recklessly loyal pilots - willing to sacrifice their lives in their efforts to bring the United States to its knees - are here drawn with rare breadth and dimension. The brilliant defensive strategies of Admirals Halsy and Spruance put an end to the Kamikaze threat.but, in the light of the recent bombings in Lebanon, could the Kamikazes reappear in another time, in another guise? From a noted historian, a brilliant recreation of one of history's most curious and frightening episodes, a riveting story of the complex nature of patriotism, duty, sacrifice and fanaticism. Illustrated. small closed tear on jacket.