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John R Bruning
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 523 pages, 8 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and children, placing them in an internment camp where they...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
515 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines between the U.S. and Australia. The night after the Marines...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 522 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot. In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces"--the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker--offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of twenty-six enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to call...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a vivid, action-packed, and highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Navy SEAL's highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him--if it were not for his grit and the devotion of his wife and family"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 326 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A retired marine sniper and an award-winning journalist present an insider's assessment of America's sniper force to challenge popular misconceptions and pay tribute to the snipers who made pivotal contributions during the War on Terror. --Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In November, 2004, a U.S. infantry squad in Fallujah plunged into one of the most sustained and savage urban battles in the history of American men at arms. Ssg. Bellavia and his men confronted an enemy who had weeks to prepare, booby-trapping houses, arranging ambushes, rigging entire city blocks as explosive-laden kill zones, and even stocking up on steroids. Entering one house, alone, Bellavia faced the fight of his life against six insurgents,...
