The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898–1945 examines how the United States became a military superpower through the use of amphibious operations. While other major world powers pursued and embraced different weapons and technologies to create different means of waging war, the United States was one of the few countries that spent decades training, developing, and employing amphibious warfare to ...
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"The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898-1945"
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Battle in the Baltic
"The Royal Navy and the Fight to Save Estonia and Latvia, 1918-20"
Though for most participants World War I ended on 11 November 1918, the Royal Navy found itself, despite four years of slaughter and war weariness, fighting a fierce and brutal battle in the Baltic Sea against Bolshevik Russia in an attempt to protect the fragile independence of the newly liberated states of Estonia and Latvia. This new book by Steve ...
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Rain of Steel
"Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods, and the Kamikaze War off Okinawa"
The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on 1 April 1945.
Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in ...
Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in ...
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