Walker, Stephen,

SHOCKWAVE - The Countdown To Hiroshima.

John Murray, London, 2006, trade paperback, xv, 352pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial wrappers, an account of three weeks in the summer of 1945, from the testing of the first atom bomb in New Mexico, the decision to use it against Japan and the preparations for the mission, the drop from Enola Gay on Hiroshima and the immediate aftermath, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 38773

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 japan hiroshima atomic bomb enola gray

Warren, Alan,

SINGAPORE 1942 - Britain's Greatest Defeat.

Hambledon and London, London, 2002, 1st edn., xiv, 370pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 16 in text maps, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial wraparound dustwrapper, an account of the greatest and most humiliating defeat in British history and the high point of Japanese expansion into South-East Asia when 120,000 men surrendered Singapore to the Japanese in February, 1942, edges tanned, small ownership label front pastedown, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38804

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 japan singapore

Webster, Donovan,

THE BURMA ROAD.

Macmillan, London, 2004, 1st edn., [vi], 370pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, with China's seaports occupied by the Japanese a road between China and Rangoon, the 'Burma Road', was cut to give China a trading access with the rest of the world. With the Japanese invasion of Burma this link was cut and General Stilwell tried to keep China supplied by air, with the Japanese being pushed back by his Wingate trained 'Galahad Force' (Merrill's maruaders) and with Wingate's own Chindit Brigades, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35723

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 burma chindit merrill wingate stilwell chiang kai-shek

Webster, Donovan,

THE BURMA ROAD.

Macmillan, London, 2004, 1st edn., [vi], 370pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, with China's seaports occupied by the Japanese a road between China and Rangoon, the 'Burma Road', was cut to give China a trading access with the rest of the world. With the Japanese invasion of Burma this link was cut and General Stilwell tried to keep China supplied by air, with the Japanese being pushed back by his Wingate trained 'Galahad Force' (Merrill's maruaders) and with Wingate's own Chindit Brigades, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35724

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 burma chindit merrill wingate stilwell chiang kai-shek

Willmott, H. P.,

PEARL HARBOR [Harbour].

Bison Books, London, 1990, 1st edn., 80pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured endpapers, coloured photo pictorial laminated boards with matching dustwrapper, oversize about 12 x 9.5 inches, an account of Japan's rise in power in the Far East theatre, their aspirations for expansion and the planning for the surpise attack on Pearl Harbor, the different phases of the attack and an evaluation of its success (or lack of it with the US carrier force being elsewhere), with over 100 contemporary photographs, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 29269

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 usa japan nagano yamamoto nagumo hawaii pearl harbor harbour

Wright, Derrick,

PACIFIC VICTORY - Tarawa to Okinawa 1943-1945.

The History Press, Stroud, 2010, paperback, xii, 244pp, coloured photo pictorial frontis, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, an heavily illustrated account with maps of the pivotal battles against the Japanese in the Pacific, the 'island-hopping' campaign which was a crucial factor in the eventual defeat of Japan, from November 1943 when Tarawa tested the assault troops to the limit in a 76-hour battle, September 1944 and Peleliu, the 'unknown battle', where poor planning, dubious leadership and a major change in Japanese defensive strategy turned an expected three-day engagement into one of the most savage battles of the war; and in February 1945 the titantic struggle of Iwo Jima and later Okinawa, a foretaste of what could be expected in the proposed assault on the Japanese mainland, all characterised by savage fighting and heavy casualties on both sides as the Japanese garrisons often fought to the death, lightly bumped at tail of spine, near fine,

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Book number: 41626

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 far east pacific tarawa peleliu okinawa japan usa

Yahara, Colonel Hiromichi,

THE BATTLE FOR OKINAWA.

John Wiley, New York, ND (copyright 1995), 1st edn. US, xxv, 245pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an English translation of an account of the Battle for Okinawa by the highest ranking officer to escape, the senior Staff Officer of the 32nd Army, whose advice for a defensive strategy was not taken by his Japanese superiors until there was no other alternative, his account gives the Japanese viewpoint of this critical battle, ex public library with usual stamps, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed and creased at extrems., very good reading copy in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41242

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 japan america pacific okinawa