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| Author | : Grover Hartt III |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2024-11-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1038327164 |
In 1942, a series of pivotal WWII land and sea confrontations occurred in the South Pacific between the Allied Forces and the Japanese for control of the island of Guadalcanal and its strategic airfield. For twenty-seven-year-old Scott Ellsworth, a smart, ambitious American naval officer posted onboard the USS Washington, a battleship in the area, it is an exciting place to be. With his background in radar-controlled gunnery and as a part of Admiral Lee’s core team, it’s also an important opportunity to move his career in the Navy forward. Yet despite his sincere desire to serve his country and fight for the freedoms it represents, Scott must also deal with the harsh reality that he does not have the freedom to openly live his life as a gay man. This and the demands of war complicate his recent relationship with the first man he has ever truly loved—a handsome British officer, named Emmett. In fact, he dares not even express his feelings in the letters he writes to Emmett as they are read by censors. Yet Scott remains determined to stay focused on his duties as he mentally prepares himself for his first taste of action in the war. But he learns that his old adversary, Tom Goodwin—who Scott knows has a connection to the mysterious death of the admiral they previously served under—is also on board. For Scott, it is a time of facing challenges and demons, both internal and external. In this exciting sequel to Proceedings of the Gun Club: Atlantic Overture, author Grover Hartt, III provides an accurate portrayal of the workings of a WWII battleship against the backdrop of an dramatic series of events that helped determine the outcome of the war. A skillful mix of historical fiction and fact, intrigue and romance, this book entertains and engages on a variety of levels.
| Author | : Sandy Nelson |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2010-08-31 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0730492745 |
A moving and exciting insight into war at sea. Why is Savo Sound known as Iron Bottom Sound? Paddy, a young New Zealand schoolboy, becomes so obsessed with a book about the wrecks of warships sunk in World War two battles at Guadalcanal that he's lucky not to be killed in a traffic accident. His parents ban him from reading the book. But Paddy can still hear the voices of men who died during the Battle of Savo Island, one of the battles depicted in the book. He is horrified . . . and fascinated. Whose voices are they? Why are they reaching out to him? Are they dangerous? Gradually he realizes that some of voices are Australian, like his grandfather. His grandfather had served in HMAS Canberra, an Australian ship sunk in the battle. While Paddy's Grandfather survived, others didn't . . . and cannot rest. Age 9+
| Author | : Patrick Degan |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2015-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0786483318 |
World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the very important story of the fighting between United States and Japanese aircraft carriers is often lost in broader discussions of the Pacific naval war. This work concentrates exclusively on the fighting between the American and Japanese aircraft carriers, examining how strategies were planned and carried out on both sides. Presented are the stories of the USS Hornet, which launched the B-25s of James Doolittle's daring raid of Tokyo in 1942; the USS Yorktown, which suffered fierce attacks during the Battle of Midway; the USS Lexington, which refueled and rearmed Hellcats during the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot; the USS Enterprise, the leader of a motley assortment of cruisers and destroyers left to hold a very precarious line in the campaign for Guadalcanal; and the Japanese battleship Yamato, sacrificed for a suicide mission against 900 aircraft bombers.
| Author | : G. J. Giddy |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2012-06-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1477112057 |
Brian and James grew up together in Wyong. Now in their early thirties, they finally could afford a budget holiday overseas in the Solomon Islands. There was one problem for James, the day he had his passport photo taken, a gust of strong wind placed a wave shape in the centre of his hair. Just as they were about to start their holidays in Honiara, a criminal named Chicken Hair and his brutal stand over man called No Name began to leave a trail of bodies. On their trail is a local Police Inspector of the Royal Solomon Islands Police. Inspector Chris believes he also should be in charge instead of an Australian sent to maintain order after the 2006 conflict. While Inspector Chris is trying to solve the brutal murders, Brain and James have several bad hygienic moments when they are intoxicated with a few native women. At one stage the two wished they had holidayed on the Gold Coast. James did have an advantage when their holiday turned sour. There was a traditional tale that a white man with strange hair and spoke different English would one day find and return the missing Golden Malaita Eagle. Brian and James were transported by coastal trader to a cloud covered volcanic Island. On this unusual island where the natives are either half Asian or half Caucasian, James is treated like a god till alcohol ruins the tribe’s chance of becoming pure native again. Now the adventure
| Author | : Jeffrey Cox |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2018-02-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472826396 |
Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Solomon Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal. Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory. Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific.
| Author | : Jeffrey Cox |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 2023-03-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147284985X |
Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. This is the central plotline running through this page-turning history beginning with the Japanese Operation I-Go and the American ambush of Admiral Yamamoto and continuing on to the Allied invasion of New Georgia, northwest of Guadalcanal in the middle of the Solomon Islands and the location of a major Japanese base. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy. Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before.
| Author | : Robert C. Stem |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2008-09-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473813565 |
Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence. As such they were involved in many hard-fought battles, using both torpedoes and guns, especially with enemy vessels of the same kind. This book recounts some of the most significant, spectacular or unusual actions in the history of destroyer warfare, from the first employment of torpedo craft during the Russo-Japanese War to the recent terrorist attack on USS Cole. With individual chapters devoted to each incident, the book may be read as a series of dramatic narratives, but each reflects a development in the tactics or technology, so taken as a whole the book amounts to a complete history of the destroyer from an unusual and previously neglected angle.
| Author | : Jon Diamond |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2016-02-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0811764958 |
On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal, northeast of Australia, launching the first major Allied offensive against Japan. In one of the best-known campaigns of World War II's Pacific Theater, the Marines and then the U.S. Army endured a bitter six-month struggle for the island.
| Author | : Jeffrey Cox |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2020-06-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472840453 |
From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the height of World War II. Cox's previous book, Morning Star, Rising Sun, had found the US Navy at its absolute nadir and the fate of the Enterprise, the last operational US aircraft carrier at this point in the war, unknown. This second volume completes the history of this crucial campaign, combining detailed research with a novelist's flair for the dramatic to reveal exactly how, despite missteps and misfortunes, the tide of war finally turned. By the end of February 1944, thanks to hard-fought and costly American victories in the first and second naval battles of Guadalcanal, the battle of Empress Augusta Bay, and the battle of Cape St George, the Japanese would no longer hold the materiel or skilled manpower advantage. From this point on, although the war was still a long way from being won, the American star was unquestionably on the ascendant, slowly, but surely, edging Japanese imperialism towards its sunset. Jeffrey Cox's analysis and attention to detail of even the smallest events are second to none. But what truly sets this book apart is how he combines this microscopic attention to detail, often unearthing new facts along the way, with an engaging style that transports the reader to the heart of the story, bringing the events on the deep blue of the Pacific vividly to life.
| Author | : Chester G. Hearn |
| Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2007-06-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780811733984 |
Engaging combat narratives from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands War, Desert Storm, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and the current Iraq War Razor-sharp analysis of the roles of ships, aircraft, commanders, tactics, and strategy Aircraft carriers surged into prominence during World War II--mainly in the Pacific, where the U.S. and Japan fought history's greatest carrier battles, like the Coral Sea and Midway. Since then, although there have been no engagements between carrier groups, carriers have played an important role in world events, serving as distant launching pads for attacks on targets around the globe. From the first improvised wooden platforms to today's nuclear-powered supercarriers, Hearn explores how combat experiences have driven the development and use of carriers in the world's navies.
