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Carrier Strike The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands On 26 October 1942, two U.S. carriers - Enterprise CV-6 and Hornet CV-8 - stood between Guadalcanal and the largest Japanese task force since Midway. One of most bitterly contested naval battles in history, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands cost Japan her last, best chance to win the Pacific war. Acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel's Carrier Strike is based upon American and Japanese battle reports, and recollections of aviators and seaman who took part in the battle. Click here for more info. Other Books by Eric Hammel Carrier Clash: The Invasion of Guadalcanal & The Battle of the Eastern Solomons by Eric Hammel Hardcover, 480 pages / Published 1997 Suggested Price: $29.95 A landmark history of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942. Drawing on newly declassified information from U.S. and Japanese sources, and on numerous other archival sources, Hammel brings a fresh perspective to the outcome of the war as a whole. Click here for more info. Decision at Sea: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, November 13-15, 1942 by Eric Hammel Paperback, 480 pages / Published 1999 Suggested Price: $27.50 The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13-15 November 1942, was America's most decisive surface naval battle of the war, and one in which Enterprise's Air Group 10 played a critical role. Hammel blends detailed historical records with personal accounts of many officers and enlisted men, creating an engrossing narrative of this key American victory. Click here for more info.

Battle Histories Pearl Harbor Wake Island The Doolittle Raid Midway Guadalcanal Truk Islands Raid The Philippine Sea Leyte Gulf Iwo Jima Okinawa

Pearl Harbor

Steady Nerves and Stout Hearts : The Enterprise (CV-6) Air Group and Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
by Robert J. Cressman & J. Michael Wenger
Paperback, 80 pages / Published 1990
Suggested Price: $9.95 + $0.85 special surcharge
A "small unit history" examining how Pearl Harbor affected the Enterprise scouting squadron who found themselves over Oahu at the time of the attack.
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East Wind Rain : A Pictorial History of the Pearl Harbor Attack
by Stan B. Cohen
Paperback / Published 1981
Suggested Price: $14.95
A pictorial review of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. Scholarly, concise and well-researched, with numerous maps and diagrams to place the attack in accurate historical context.
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Wake Island

Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island
by Gregory J. W. Urwin
Hardcover, 800 pages / Published 1998
Suggested Price: $59.95
Awarded the 1998 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award by the Marine Corps Historical Foundation, Facing Fearful Odds has been recognized both for its extraordinary depth of detail and "profoundly effective writing style."
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'A Magnificent Fight': The Battle for Wake Island
by Robert J. Cressman
Hardcover, 324 pages / Published 1995
Suggested Price: $34.95
Recounts how the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and defeated the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll: the only amphibious landing to be repulsed in the entire Pacific war. Cressman uses extensive Japanese materials - many never before available - to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama.
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Enemy on Island Issue in Doubt : The Capture of Wake Island
by Stan B. Cohen
Out-of-Print
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The Doolittle Raid

Destination Tokyo : A Pictorial History of Doolittle's Tokyo Raid, April 18, 1942
by Stan B. Cohen
Paperback, 136 pages / Published 1983
Suggested Price: $12.95
A Pictorial History of Doolittle's Tokyo Raid, 18 April 1942, one of the most daring and dangerous missions of World War II.
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The Doolittle Raid : America's Daring First Strike Against Japan
by Carroll V. Glines
Hardcover, 50th Anniversary Edition / Published 1992
Suggested Price: $24.95
The full story of the Doolittle Raid as told by the Raider's official historian, Carroll V. Glines.
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Four Came Home: The Gripping Story of the Survivors of Jimmy Doolittle's Two Lost Crews
by Carroll V. Glines
Unknown binding / Published 1996
Suggested Price: $14.95
Eight American airmen in the force that raided Tokyo in April 1942 were taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. The Doolittle Raider's official historian, Carroll V. Glines, recounts the mission and the fates of the eight pilots and airmen in their captor's hands.
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Midway

Incredible Victory
by Walter Lord
Paperback, 352 pages / Published 1998
Suggested Price: $15.25
In June 1942, a hopelessly outclassed U.S. fleet ambushed a Japanese invasion force approaching Midway. Walter Lord's Incredible Victory is a remarkable account of "the most significant and decisive naval battle since Trafalgar."
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Return to Midway
by Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold
Hardcover, 191 pages / Published 1999
Suggested Price: $28.00
Also available: Companion video or DVD.
In 1998, oceanographer Robert Ballard returned to the seas around Midway, in search of the ships sunk during the epic 1942 battle: Yorktown CV-5, the destroyer Hammann, and four Japanese carriers. On the morning of 19 May 1998, he found Yorktown...
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A Glorious Page in Our History : The Battle of Midway, 4-6 June, 1942
by Robert Cressman, Steve Ewing, et al
Paperback, 226 pages / Published 1990
Suggested Price: $14.95
Thoroughly researched, and overflowing with photographs of both the participants and the battle itself. The authors, recognized historians all, have gone to great pains to ensure accuracy, and in doing so have corrected numerous mistatements and inaccuracies which have appeared in other accounts of the battle.
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Miracle at Midway
by Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, et al
Paperback, 469 pages / Published 1983
Suggested Price: $17.05
A balanced account of the Battle of Midway. Particular attention is given to the American intelligence breakthroughs, Japanese planning, and the decisions of the commanders "in the field."
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Midway - The Battle That Doomed Japan: The Japanese Navy's Story
by Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya
Paperback / Published 1993
Suggested Price: $6.29
Originally published in Japan in 1951, this translation is a unique and important account of Midway, as told by two Japanese officers who took part in the battle. This is the definitive record of Japan's naval planning for and operations during Midway.
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