Frank, Benis M.,

OKINAWA - Capstone to Victory.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book 12', the invasion of the first part of the home islands of Japan, April 1945, wrappers mis-titled 'touchstone' rather than 'capstone' which is what appears on the title page, lightly rubbed at extrems., tiny chip at head of spine, multi currency price label upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43754

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history navy combined army marines pacific invasion assault

Frank, Benis M.,

OKINAWA - Capstone to Victory.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone photo and line ills. and maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book 12', the invasion of the first part of the home islands of Japan, April 1945, wrappers mis-titled 'touchstone' rather than 'capstone' which is what appears on the title page, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint creasing at cnrs., spine sunned and pages tanned, small area tippex on title, very good,

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Book number: 43755

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history navy combined army marines pacific invasion assault

Frank, Benis M.,

OKINAWA - Capstone to Victory.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone photo and line ills. and maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book 12', the invasion of the first part of the home islands of Japan, April 1945, wrappers mis-titled 'touchstone' rather than 'capstone' which is what appears on the title page, lightly rubbed at extrems. with sl. loss at spine ends, faint creasing at cnrs., pages tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43756

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history navy combined army marines pacific invasion assault

Frank, Benis M.,

OKINAWA - Capstone to Victory.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone photo and line ills. and maps, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book 12', the invasion of the first part of the home islands of Japan, April 1945, wrappers mis-titled 'touchstone' rather than 'capstone' which is what appears on the title page, lightly rubbed at tips, multi currency price label upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 43757

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history navy combined army marines pacific invasion assault

Grew, Joseph C.,

REPORT FROM TOKYO - A Warning to the United Nations.

Hammond, Hammond and Co., London, 1944, reprint, [ii], 103pp, lettered card wrappers, an account by the ex United States Ambassador to Japan after his exchange after internment there in 1942, explaining the peace-loving nature of the majority of the people of Japan and the dominant ruthlessness of the Japanese military machine, warning that this machine must be utterly crushed for the future welfare of the rest of the world, lightly rubbed and a little sunned at extrems., no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40900

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 far east pacific japan tokyo

Harrington, Joseph D.,

YANKEE SAMURAI - The Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory.

Pettigrew Enterprises, Detroit, 1979, 3rd edn., US, 383pp, half tone photo ills. in text, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper by Sheila Harrington, based on the testimony of about one thousand US born citizens of Japanese descent (Nisei), an account of their secret contribution to the United States war effort in the Padific theatre during WW2 which is estimated by the author to have saved one million lives and shortened the war by two years, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., small chip and tear lower panel repaired to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43513

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 pacific far east japan usa nisei okinawa us born japanese

Hersey, John,

HIROSHIMA.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1958, reprint, paperback, 127pp, Penguin orange and white livery, an account of the experiences of six people who were in Hiroshima when the atom bomb dropped, lightly rubbed at tips, spine heavily sunned, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44411

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 japan hiroshima atomic bomb

Hilton, James,

THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL.

Macmillan, London, 1944, 1st edn., x, 121pp, light blue cloth lettered and decorated in maroon at spine and upper board, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a biographical novel of an episode in the life of Dr. Corydon Wassell, Lt. Cdr. US Naval Reserve, who, in the face of the advancing Japanese stayed behind to tend wounded sailors deemed too ill to be moved, and nevertheless managed to get them away, later filmed by Cecil B. DeMille starring Gary Cooper, edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped , several small chips and marks, repaired to reverse, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36348

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 navy java japanese

Horton, D. C.,

NEW GEORGIA : Pattern for Victory.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1972, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, maps, numerous in text half tone photo and line ills., photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan / Ballantine series 'Illustrated History of World War ll', after the re-taking of Guadalcanal the campaign moved on the next step, the retaking of the Soloman Islands of which the New Georgia group formed the first stage, together with an account of the 'Coastwatchers' spy ring who reported on all Japanese movements, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43768

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history solomon islands new geogia coastwatchers

Hoyt, Edwin P.,

CLOSING THE CIRCLE - War in the Pacific 1945.

Avon, New York, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiii, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of matters both political and military during the last 60 days of the war against Japan during 1945, when the Potsdam option of unconditional surrender was the only option on the table from the Allies and the Japanese army and navy were still insistant on a battle to the last, only to be overruled by the action of the Emporer at the last, after the second atom bomb on Nagasaki. The narrative includes terms of the Potsdam Declaration, the preparations for the atom bombs, the loss of the US cruiser Indianapolis and the fact that no-one in the US Navy seems to have noticed until three days later, the preventive strikes against kami-kazi forces by the US Navy and the declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria against Japan by the Russians at the last minute, faint crease in spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good

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Book number: 44568

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 pacific japan

Hoyt, Edwin P.,

THE KAMIKAZES.

Panther, London, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, 352pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., wraparound pictorial cover-art by Brian Knight, an account of the Japanese suicide pilots during WW2, the brainshild of Admiral Onishi, the campaign to send relatively untrained pilots on suicide missions to crash into US Aircraft Carriers in an attempt to cripple or sink them, and how patriotism, duty and fanaticism led hundreds of young men to sacrifice themselves for their country and their Emperor, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing and soiling to wrappers, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 44974

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 japan pacific kamikaze

Hoyt, Edwin P.,

THE KAMIKAZES.

Panther, London, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, 352pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., wraparound pictorial cover-art by Brian Knight, an account of the Japanese suicide pilots during WW2, the brainshild of Admiral Onishi, the campaign to send relatively untrained pilots on suicide missions to crash into US Aircraft Carriers in an attempt to cripple or sink them, and how patriotism, duty and fanaticism led hundreds of young men to sacrifice themselves for their country and their Emperor, lightly rubbed and creased at exterms., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45112

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 navy air force japan pacific

Humble, Richard,

JAPANESE HIGH SEAS FLEET.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1974, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, maps, numerous half tone and line ills. in text, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan / Ballantine series 'History of World War ll - Weapons Book', the history, development (in spite of treaty limits) and use of the Japanese Navy in WW2, with accounts of the majpr actions at Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Layte Gulf, etc., lightly rubbed at extrems., edges a little tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 43772

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history pacific coral sea midway guadalcanal solomons philippines leyte gulf

Kennedy, Paul,

PACIFIC ONSLAUGHT - 7th Dec 1941 to 7th Feb 1943.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1972, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps in text, in the Pan/Ballantine series 'History of World War II', the Japanese expansion into the Pacific, covering Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Burma and Guadalcanal, with some comments on the origins and account of the start of the counter measures, slight slant to spine, lightl rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 43643

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history pacific hong kong burma singapore midway pearl harbor philippines guadalcanal malaya pan ballantine

Kennedy, Paul,

PACIFIC ONSLAUGHT - 7th Dec 1941 to 7th Feb 1943.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1972, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps, in the Pan / Ballantine series 'History of World War II', the Japanese expansion into the Pacific, covering Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Burma and Guadalcanal, with some comments on the origins and account of the start of the counter measures, a little rubbed at extrems., faint creasing cnrs. upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 43780

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history pacific hong kong burma singapore midway pearl harbor philippines guadalcanal malaya