World War II in the Pacific

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By Edgar Snow. 1944, Random House, 324pp. A wartime profile of three ally nations: Russia, India and China. (VG in Good- DJ. DJ lightly foxed)

By John Toland. 1961 (1962), Signet, 7x4". "The full story of the most challenging period in U. S. History, the coming of war to the Pacific." (Good)

By John Toland. 1982, Doubleday, 390pp. An account of the attack on Pearl Harbor. B+W photo insert. Maps on end papers. (Near Fine in VG DJ)

By John Toland. 1982 (1983), Berkley, 397pp, 7x4". (VG)

By Walter Lord. 1957 (1995), Henry Holt, 243pp. An hour-by-hour account of the bombing. "50th Anniversary Edition". Photo inserts, maps. (Fine in Near Fine DJ)

By Walter Lord. 1957, Henry Holt, 243pp. (Good)

By Walter Lord. 1956 (1970), Bantam, 245pp, 7x4". "The moment-by-monent story of Pearl Harbor." (Good+.)

By Wallace Louis Exum. 1987, Impressions Printing Company, 136pp. "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." (VG-. Label blemish on front cover, else VG)

By George Morgenstern. 1947, Devin-Adair, 425pp. A history of Pearl Harbor published shortly after the war. (Good+, no DJ. Prev. owners name inside, otherwise no marks. Slightly yellowed pages)

By Blake Clark and Daniel Martinez. 1942 (1987), Mutual Publishing, 266pp, 7x4". Revised edition. A University of Hawaii professor's eyewitness account of the bombing, first published in 1942. Republished in 1987 with revision notes by Daniel Martinez. B+W photos. . (New)

By Richard A. Wisniewski. 1986, Pacific Basin Enterprises , 66pp, 11x8.5". Third revised edition. The history of the base at Pearl Harbor - before, during and after the attack - told with B+W photos. (VG)

By Ted W. Lawson. 1943 (1953), Landmark, 186pp. Memoirs of a pilot who took part in the Doolittle raid over Toyko on April 18, 1942. (VG, no DJ)

By Col. Robert L. Scott. 1943 (1965), Ballantine, 206pp, 7x4". Memoirs of pilot who served under General Chennault in China during the war. (Good+)

By Samual Hynes. 1988 (1989), Pocket, 276pp, 7x4". Recollections of a US Marine bomber pilot in the Pacific. "It's not the mechanics of flying and war-making that remain uppermost in this pilot's memory. It's the sensational experience of his rites of passage from untrained cadet to war-weary aviator, from youthful innocence to manhood." (VG+)

By Donald S. Lopez. 1986 (1988), Bantam, 248pp, 7x4". THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES FIGHTING WITH THE FLYING TIGERS IN CHINA DURING WORLD WAR II,, AND HIS LATER FLYING WITH THE 23RD FIGHTER GROUP OF THE 14TH AIR FORCE AGAINST THE JAPANESE. (Good+)

By Frederick C. Sherman. 1950 (1982), Bantam, 377pp, 7x4". Chronicles the role of U.S. Aircraft carriers during World War II in the Pacific. (Good+)

By Admiral I. J. Galantin. 1987 (1988), Pocket, 300pp, 7x4". The war patrols of the submarine USS Halibut are detailed by its commanding officer. (VG)

By Gordon W. Prange and Donald M. Goldtein and Katherine V. Dillon. 1982, McGraw-Hill, 469pp. "Convinced by the cryptanalysts that Midway, not Alaska or San Francisco, was the target of the Japanese fleet, Nimitz committed his inferior resources there and plunged an overconfident Japanese navy into the sea." (Good+, no DJ)

By Russell Spurr. 1981, Newmarket Press, 340pp. "A book that dramatizes, day-to-day, from both the Japanese & Allied points of view the tragic last mission of the World's largest battleship." (VG)

By Lawrence Cortesi. 1984, Zebra/Kensington, 270pp, 7x4". Concerning the invasion of Luzan in WWII. (Good)

By Robert J. Donovan. 1961 (1962), Crest, 160pp, 7x4". Account of Kennedy's heroics while assigned to a PT boat in the South Pacific during WWII. Published while Kennedy was President. (Good-. Yellowed pages)

By Robert J. Donovan. 1961, Fawcett, 261pp, 7x4". Recounts the herioc exploits of the future president while serving on a PT boat in WWII. (Good. Some writing on cover. Child's scribbles on page 72)

By Lt. Gen. E. M. Flanagan. 1988, Presidio, 331pp. Account of the assault on the heavily fortified Philippine island in 1945. (poor in Good+ DJ in mylar wraps. Binding is disintgrating, with some sections falling out, but all pages are present)

By Dan Kurzman. 1994, Pocket Books, 335pp. "How nearly 700 men, including the five Sullivan brothers, died in torpedo and shark attacks in one of WW II's most secret scandals." (Library discard with usual markings. Good+ in VG DJ)

By Walter Lord. 1977, Viking Press, 272pp. "The first complete account of the Coastwatchers of the Solomons, that remarkable band of individualists who operated deep behind Japanese lines in the dark days of 1942-43." (Good+ in Fair DJ that has tears around edges. Previous owners name inside front cover)

By Walter Lord. 1977, Viking, 272pp. "The first complete account of the remarkable band of individualists who operated deep behind Japanese lines in the dark days of 1942-43." (VG in Good DJ. Book club edition.)

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By Margaret T. Bixler. 1992, Two Bytes Pub., 169pp, 9.5x6.5". Story of the Navajo radio operators who used a coded version of their own language to communicate during WWII.

By Chuck Bianchi. 1990, Pinnacle, 320pp. Fiction. "Born Navajo warriers, trained as Marines, they were America' secret weapon against Japan!". (VG)

By Ernest Gordon. 1962 (1963), Bantam, 211pp, 7x4". About the disintegration and reconstruction of the personal ties between the prisoners in the POW camp that built the Bridge over the River Kwai, written by one of them. "The towering true story of human endurance and spiritual triumph by one of the few men who survived the infamous Japanese Death Camp." (Good+. Pages lightly browned)

By William Manchester. 1978 (1979), Dell, 960pp, 7x4". Biography of the WWII commander. (VG)

By William Manchester. 1978, Little Brown, 791pp. Bio of WWII commander. (VG in Good+ DJ)

By Leonard Mosley. 1966, Prentice-Hall, 371pp. An intimate biography of Hirohito Emperor of Japan. The author answers questions and clearly defines the role of Hirohito in WWII. (VG in Good DJ)

By Francis Trevelyan Miller and Lowell Thomas (introduction). 1942, The John C Winston Company, 280pp. A glowing wartime biography of the general who commanded the troops in the Pacific. Light propaganda obviously supportive of the war effort. (Good, no DJ)

By John Toland. 1970, Random House, 954pp. A history of the war from the Japanese perspective. (Library discard with usual markings. Good- in Good DJ in mylar wraps. Light water damage to bottom of page block, else solid)

By Dean Ing. 1997 (1998), TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 400pp. Novel. Aging WWII vets try to recover perfectly preserved Japanese aircraft. (Near Fine)

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