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Pearl Harbor
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath (used hc) By John Toland.
1982, Doubleday, 390pp, photo insert, maps on end papers.
(Near Fine in VG DJ)
An account of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
(5/26/99)
$10.00
book2
Day of Infamy: The Best-Selling Classic Recreation of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor (used hc) By Walter Lord.
1957 (1995), Henry Holt, 243pp. "50th Anniversary Edition". Photo inserts, maps.
(Fine in Near Fine DJ)
An hour-by-hour account of the bombing.
(7/14/99)
$10.00
book1.5
Battleship: Pearl Harbor, 1941 (used trpb) By Wallace Louis Exum.
1987, Impressions Printing Company, 136pp.
(VG-. Label blemish on front cover, else VG.)
"Of the nine battleships at Pearl Harbor, only one got under way....
Very little has been written about those who fought in Pearl Harbor on that
infamous day, especially the enlisted man. During the attack, only one
battleship out of the nine moored in the harbor got under way:
the U.S.S. Nevada. This is the authentic, spellbinding and quite amazing
story of how that happened."
(5/5/99)
$8.00
book1
Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War (used hc) By George Morgenstern.
1947, Devin-Adair, 425pp. A history of Pearl Harbor published shortly after the war.
(G+. Prev. owners name inside, otherwise no marks. Slightly yellowed pages.)
(10/8/99)
$9.00
book2
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (used hc) By Ted W. Lawson.
1943 (1953), Landmark, 186pp.
(VG, no DJ.)
Memoirs of a pilot who took part in the Doolittle raid over Toyko on
April 18, 1942.
(5/4/99)
$6.50
book1
Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator (used hc) By Samuel Hynes.
1988, Frederic C. Beil/Naval Institute Press, 270pp.
(Near Fine in VG DJ. One-inch closed tear on back of DJ, else Near Fine. BOMC edition.)
Memoirs of a Marine bomber pilot in the Pacific.
(7/8/99)
$8.00
book1
God is my Co-Pilot (used pb) By Col. Robert L. Scott.
1943 (1965), Ballantine, 206pp.
(G+)
Pilot who served under General Chennault in China
during the war.
(7/8/99)
$3.00
std
Baa Baa Black Sheep: The True Story of the "Bad Boy" Hero of the Pacific Theatre and his Famous Black Sheep Squadron (used pb) By Gregory "Pappy" Boyington.
1958 (1987), Bantam, 350pp.
(Near Fine)
(7/19/99)
$3.50
book1
The Jolly Rogers (used pb) By Tom Blackburn
and James Stockdale (introduction).
1989 (1990), Pocket Books, 328pp. "They clared the Japanese Zeros from the South Pacific skies - the astounding saga of Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17.".
(Near Fine)
(7/19/99)
$5.00
std
Aces Against Japan: The American Aces Speak (used pb) By Eric Hammel.
1992 (1995), Pocket Books, 356pp. Interviews. "In their own electrifying word, how U.S. fighters won the Pacific skies.".
(VG)
(7/19/99)
$3.50
std
National Geographic Magazine, April 1988: Articles on WWII Wrecks in South Pacific; Uganda; Flowers in Texas; Pharaoh's Funeral Bark (used magazine) By various. 1988, National Geographic Society, 150pp. (Near Fine.) Egypt | Texas | Africa (7/17/99) - Also listed on National Geographic Magazine: Back Issues and Photo Books .
$5.00
book1
The Seige of Rabaul (used pb) By Henry Sakaida.
1996, Phalanx Publishing, 96pp, 8.5x11".
(Near Fine. Very slight rubbing of cover)
Large-format, heaily illustrated book recounts battle for the Solomon Islands.
told from both the American and Japanese perspectives.
(4/29/99)
$8.50
book1
The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942 - February 1943 (used hc) By Samuel Eliot Morison.
1949 (1955), Little Brown, 389pp, B+W photos and maps.
(Fair in Fair DJ in wraps. Xlib from "Base Library, Wheelus Field, USAF". Weak hinges but pages secure. One photo page is loose. All pages appear to be present.)
"History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume V."
Author was a professor of American History at Harvard
and retired from the Navy as a Rear Admiral.
(7/10/99)
$10.00
book2.5
PT-109: John F. Kennedy in WWII (used pb) By Robert J. Donovan.
1961 (1962), Crest, 160pp.
(Yellowed copy)
Account of Kennedy's heroics while assigned to a PT boat in the South Pacific during
WWII.
Published while Kennedy was President.
(3/18/99)
$2.00
std
PT-109: John F. Kennedy in WWII (used hc, no dj) 1961, McGraw-Hill, 261pp.
Same book as above in hardcover.
$5.00
book1
America at War (used trpb) By Richard Polenberg.
Prentice-Hall, 1968, 175pp.
"In this book, Richard Polenberg brings together contemporary accounts, political
speeches, selections from wartime journalism, and portions of Congressional reports
that recreate the atmosphere of America at War."
(2/17/99)
$5.00
book1
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 (used pb) By William Manchester.
1978 (1979), Dell, 960pp. Photo inserts. Current list $8.50. Biography of the WWII commander.
(VG)
(7/30/99)
$4.00
book1
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 (used hc) By William Manchester.
1978, Little Brown, 791pp.
(VG in G+ DJ)
(10/1/99)
$10.00
book3
