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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (Bluejacket Books) מאת Hiroo Onoda In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had ski...

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Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine (Blue Jacket Books) מאת Robert Frump Robert Frump s Until the Sea Shall Free Them has an unusual setting: off the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, in February 1983. There the merchant vessel Marine Electric, a coal carrier converted from a World War II-vintage Liberty ship, participated in the rescue of a fishing boat caught ...

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"And I Was There": Pearl Harbor And Midway -- Breaking the Secrets (Bluejacket Books) מאת Edwin T. Layton At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, Ed Layton knew exactly what had gone wrong as he watched the bombs and torpedoes wipe out the U.S. Pacific Fleet. But he kept those secrets to himself for forty-three years—until the government released half a million classified documents from its intell...

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Afghanistan And the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare מאת Hy S. Rothstein A Naval Postgraduate School professor and former career Special Forces officer looks at why the U.S. military cannot conduct unconventional warfare despite a significant effort to create and maintain such a capability. In his examination of Operation Enduring Freedom, Hy Rothstein maintains that alt...

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Honor, Courage, Commitment: Navy Boot Camp מאת J. F. Leahy Through words and pictures, J. F. Leahy chronicles the transition of eighty-one men and women from civilians to sailors at the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois. Revealing a side of today's youth that many will find surprising, his examination of the unique American institu...

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The North Korean People's Army: Orgins And Current Tactics מאת James M. Minnich For more than fifty years, the combined armed forces of the United States and the Republic of Korea have courageously shed sweat and blood in their tireless deterrence of the world's third largest army--the North Korean People's Army. Despite this half century stand-off, along the world's most milit...

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Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice מאת Ronald J. Olive Jonathan Jay Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service’s Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive security secrets from almost every major intelligence-gathering agency in the United States. Over the course of eighteen months in the ...

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Thomas McDonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) מאת David Curtis Skaggs The September 11, 1814, triumph of an American naval squadron over a much more heavily armed British squadron on Lake Champlain is considered the most significant tactical and strategic naval victory of the United States in the War of 1812. Yet the American who led the squadron, Commodore Thomas Mac...

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Sea Of Sharks: A Sailor's World War II Survival Story מאת Elmer Renner

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The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway מאת John B. Lundstrom

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Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586 מאת Andrew C. A. Jampoler In the tradition of great tales of men against the sea, this story offers a compelling look at courage and commitment in the face of certain tragedy. It is a powerful blend of human drama and real-life naval operations, but unlike most books in the genre, its heroes are airmen not seamen, and most s...

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Homefront Club: The Hardheaded Woman's Guide to Raising a Military Family מאת Jacey Eckhart As anyone with a spouse in uniform knows, the military offers families neither geographical stability nor guarantees of life under one roof. Those conditions make it tough to keep a marriage together, raise good kids, and maintain some semblance of normalcy, but help is on the way. Jacey Eckhart’s...

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Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War מאת USMCR Col. Nicholas E. Reynolds This is the story of the Marine Corps in the major combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). It tells how the I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) planned and prepared for war in 2002 and deployed to theater in early 2003, and then how it crossed the line of departure and fought its way to Baghda...

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First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps (Bluejacket Books) מאת Victor H. Krulak Deftly blending history with autobiography, action with analysis, the legendary Marine general Victor "Brute" Krulak offers here a riveting insider's chronicle of U.S. Marines--their fights on the battlefield and off, and their extraordinary esprit de corps. He not only takes a close look at th...

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A Country Such as This מאת James H. Webb The innocence the 1950s and turbulence of the 1960s and 70s--years when America reached out and touched the heavens, only to be torn apart by internal conflict and a war in Southeast Asia--provide a dramatic setting for this unforgettable story of three men and the women they love carving a place fo...

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John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior מאת Joseph F. Callo This fresh look at America’s first sea warrior avoids both the hero worship of the past and the recent, inaccurate deconstructionist views of John Paul Jones’s astonishing life. The author goes beyond a narrow naval context to establish Jones as a key player in the American Revolution, something...

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Military Widow: A Survival Guide מאת Joanne M. Steen This survival guide for widows of service personnel, a first-of-its-kind, tackles the unique and complex issues arising from the death of a spouse in the military. It speaks to loss in each of the service branches, across the span of rank and rates, and offers invaluable insights and practical strat...