bluejacket books (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. good as new.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. A crisp clean copy appearing lightly or wholly unread!

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Book Club Edition.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 148pp. Laminated printed light card covers (lightly bumped on upper leading corner). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Chronicles the savage five day struggle to wrest Mount Suribachi from its tenacious Japanese defenders during the thirty-five day battle for Iwo Jima. Illustrated with black and white photographs.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 148pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Very, very light chipping to edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Chronicles the savage five day struggle to wrest Mount Suribachi from its tenacious Japanese defenders during the thirty-five day battle for Iwo Jima. Illustrated with black and white photographs. no.

Zustand: Good. Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.

Zustand: Good. Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.

Zustand: Good. Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, small maps, 8vo.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Printing thus [Stated]. xi, [1], 466, [2] pages. Frontis Illustrations. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Richard "Dick" Wheeler was an American military historian who authored seventeen books and served as a military consultant for multiple film and television projects. A member of the United States Marine Corps' Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division) during World War II, he was seriously wounded during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Post-war, he penned an account of that battle, The Bloody Battle for Suribachi, and became a military historian. Following his first book's release in 1965, he then published additional works, including Voices of the Civil War in 1976 and Iwo, which was released in 1980. He received a 1973 Christopher Award for Voices of 1776 and the Fletcher Pratt Award for Voices of the Civil War. Richard Wheeler draws extensively on frontline eyewitness accounts of Marines and combat journalists and backs up their stories with official action reports and captured Japanese materials. First published in 1983, the book has earned praise as a one-volume history of all the battles fought by the Marine Corps in the Pacific campaign. The book describes in exciting detail the heroic defense of Wake Island against an overwhelming enemy assault force. It traces the long bloody battle for Guadalcanal that brought the Marines their first victory and gave America and its allies control of the strategically important Solomon Islands. It follows the island-by-island counterattack toward the Japanese homeland when the Marines created new legends at such places as Bougainville, Saipan, Tarawa, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Here are the remarkable exploits of the Marines holding off Japanese assault waves at Heartbreak Ridge, and struggling up the slopes of Mount Suribachi to raise the Stars and Stripes.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. xiv, 272 p. 23 cm. B&w photos and maps.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. xv, [3], 268, [2] pages. Illustrations. Map/diagram. Foreword. Sources. Index. John Hammond Moore was born in Houlton, Maine, in 1924. As a young man, he was quartermaster on board the LSMR-193 during the Okinawa campaign. In addition to teaching at Winthrop College and Georgia Stare University, he has worked in both journalism and book publishing. He was senior lecturer in American history at Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, before returning to the United States in 1972. He is the author of numerous books, including Albemarle: Jefferson's County, an area where a POW camp was located, which piqued his curiosity in the subject of Germans held in America during World War II. He died in 2017. The true story of how twenty-five German naval officers and seamen dug a 178-foot tunnel they had excavated with makeshift tools. By Christmas day, they were looking for Axis sympathizers who would help them get into Mexico. Their breakout remains the most sensational mass escape ever to take place from a POW camp on American soil. The author draws on extensive interviews with the escapees to tell their incredible story. Once free, the Germans disguised themselves as merchant seamen, consular officials, and workers armed with false identification papers, but they lasted just six weeks on the outside before being recaptured. Their drama unfolds with details that only the prisoners themselves could provide, and their account is backed up by formerly classified documents. On December 23, 1944, twenty-five German prisoners of war broke out of an Arizona prison camp not far from the Mexican border by crawling along a 178-foot tunnel. By Christmas day, they were looking for ways to reach Mexico and Axis sympathizers who would help them. Drawing on extensive interviews with the escapees and formerly classified documents, John Hammond Moore tells their incredible story--one of the few untold dramas of the war. Many of the men imprisoned at the Papago Park camp were among the Nazis' toughest and smartest U-boat commanders and their crews. Expecting trouble, their American guards marveled at how well the men adjusted to camp life. Spirits were high and the compound neatly raked several times each day. But the guards failed to realize the men were digging a tunnel right under their eyes. They hid their activity by building a volleyball (faustball) field. Twenty-five escapees used makeshift tools and coal shovels issued them by the camp to hack through the rocky soil. Once free, they disguised themselves as merchant seamen, consular officials, and workers armed with false identification papers. The men lasted six weeks on the outside before being recaptured. Their breakout, told here is breathtaking detail, remains the most sensational mass escape ever to take place from a POW camp on American soil. Derived from a Kirkus review: Of the 371,000 German POWs who spent time in US detention centers during World War II, Moore picks up on the exploits of 25 U-boat officers and NCOs held at Papago Park, in the Arizona desert. Segregated into a special compound for troublemakers and hard cases, they decided to take action: "The Geneva Convention, you know, recognizes escape as a legitimate sport," one of the runaways said to Moore. And it's as sport that Moore treats the tunneling operation that penetrated 178 feet of earth and rock, freeing 25 POWs who would try to make it to Mexico. . Moore has been meticulous about gathering the facts of how the tunnel was excavated and disguised as a faustball (volleyball) court under the very eyes of American guards. His interpretation of the breakout as prompted by boredom comes from 30-years-after-the-fact discussions with German vets. While possibly an exercise in futility it was also an act of obedience to their military oath. At the time, as Arizona press accounts and high-level military investigations make clear, the matter was regarded very seriously. Civilians were especially outraged to learn that.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. xv, [3], 268, [2] pages. Illustrations. Map/diagram. Foreword. Sources. Index. John Hammond Moore was born in Houlton, Maine, in 1924. As a young man, he was quartermaster on board the LSMR-193 during the Okinawa campaign. In addition to teaching at Winthrop College and Georgia Stare University, he has worked in both journalism and book publishing. He was senior lecturer in American history at Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, before returning to the United States in 1972. He is the author of numerous books, including Albemarle: Jefferson's County, an area where a POW camp was located, which piqued his curiosity in the subject of Germans held in America during World War II. He died in 2017. The true story of how twenty-five German naval officers and seamen dug a 178-foot tunnel they had dug with makeshift tools. By Christmas day, they were looking for Axis sympathizers who would help them get into Mexico. Their breakout remains the most sensational mass escape ever to take place from a POW camp on American soil. The author draws on extensive interviews with the escapees to tell their incredible story. Once free, the Germans disguised themselves as merchant seamen, consular officials, and workers armed with false identification papers, but they lasted just six weeks on the outside before being recaptured. Their drama unfolds with details that only the prisoners themselves could provide, and their account is backed up by formerly classified documents. Derived from a Kirkus review: Of the 371,000 German POWs who spent time in US detention centers during World War II, Moore picks up on the exploits of 25 U-boat officers and NCOs held at Papago Park, in the Arizona desert. Segregated into a special compound for troublemakers and hard cases, they decided to take action: "The Geneva Convention, you know, recognizes escape as a legitimate sport," one of the runaways said to Moore. And it's as sport that Moore treats the tunneling operation that penetrated 178 feet of earth and rock, freeing 25 POWs who would try to make it to Mexico. . Moore has been meticulous about gathering the facts of how the tunnel was dug and disguised as a faustball (volleyball) court under the very eyes of American guards. His interpretation of the breakout as prompted by boredom comes from 30-years-after-the-fact discussions with German vets. While possibly an exercise in futility it was also an act of obedience to their military oath. At the time, as Arizona press accounts and high-level military investigations make clear, the matter was regarded very seriously. Civilians were especially outraged to learn that "Nazi" POWs were being fed and clothed better than the rationed home folk. The story of the Great Escape German-style is a useful vehicle for Moore to look at an unusual and infrequently-discussed aspect of the war. First Bluejacket Books Edition [stated]. First Printing [Stated].

8°, kartoniert. Zustand: Gut. 321 Seiten, 8-zeilige Widmung von Helge(a) Lochner im Namen von Reinhard Lochner auf Vorsatz A5144 Sprache: Englisch.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Bluejacket printing [stated]. xii, [2], 221, [5] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The author was a U. S. Navy Lieutenant Commander (retired) who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Auckland, which he earned after 20 years of distinguished naval service. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam and received two Bronze Starts, two Navy Commendation Medals, and a Meritorious Service Medal. He was later an intelligence analyst with the Allied Forces in Southern Europe. "James Reckner was singularly responsible for the creation, growth and development of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech," said Donald Haragan, Texas Tech president emeritus. "The center's mission was focused on the history and analysis of the war, its cause and ultimate aftermath. Jim's outstanding work lead to the development of an annual symposium at the university. His efforts had a significant impact on community studying the Vietnam conflict." Drawing on previously untapped sources, naval historian James Reckner provides a complete picture of the fleet that thrust the United States into the ranks of great world naval powers. His fresh interpretations of the fleet's historic 1907-09 world cruise, which won him the 1989 Roosevelt Naval History Prize, allow today's readers to fully appreciate the significance of the famous fleet that set sail during Teddy Roosevelt's second term as president. Reckner recreates the pageantry of the event--sixteen U.S. battleships on a fourteen-month voyage around the world--that drew thousands of sightseers at every port of call. His main emphasis is on the cruise's long-range impact on the Navy. He shows how the cruise revealed the fleet's shortcomings and forced the naval establishment to acknowledge the faults and make changes that led to permanent benefits. Reckner gives a detailed account of the fleet as it traveled from Hampton Roads, around Cape Horn, across the Pacific, and then home via the Suez Canal and Mediterranean.