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Joe Rochefort's War
The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
Elliot Carlson’s award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Black Company
The Story of Subchaser 1264
The remarkable World War II story of PC 1264's crew of fifty African-American enlisted men as recounted by the ship's captain.
Available Formats: Softcover
Twilight Warriors
Covert Air Operations Against the USSR
From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy battlefronts of the Cold War, spanning the postwar ...
Available Formats: Hardcover