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32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
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English
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Introduces members of the United States Navy who committed acts of heroism since September 11, 2001, including medics in Iraq, a photographer in Afghanistan, and two SEALs who won the Medal of Honor, and describes their accomplishments.
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x, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In "A Measureless Peril," the historian Richard Snow captures all the drama of the merciless contest between the quickly built U.S. warships and the ever-more cunning and lethal U-boats that controlled the sea lanes of the Atlantic during WWII.
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viii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles. --Publisher.
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xii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Gandt delivers an engrossing, utterly page-turning chronicle of a tightly knit crew of young naval aviators in the epic final--and most brutal--major battle of World War II: Okinawa.
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1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A biographical portrait of Senator John McCain, featuring interviews with family, friends, colleagues as well as with John McCain himself, recorded in 2017 just a few weeks after McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer.
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xxii, 516 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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Draws on interviews with veterans and primary sources to present a narrative account of the pivotal World War II campaign, chronicling the three-month effort to gain control of Guadalcanal as a battle that taught the U.S. Navy and Marines new approaches to warfare.
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ix, 559 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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A unique collective biography of the four men who "with a combination of nimble counsel, exasperating ego, studied patience, and street-fighter tactics" shaped the modern U.S. Navy to win WWII at sea.
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xvi, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. From the early years of the war to the surrender ceremony on Tokyo Bay four years later, Nimitz carried the expectations of a nation impatient for revenge-- and transformed the devastated Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history. Symonds covers all the major campaigns, and captures...
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