"Barbara Tuchman's great epic is the stunning masterpiece of WWI. Here are the unforgettable portraits of an era-and the disasters of leadership. Here is the big picture of war-the full shocking drama of August, 1914, an incredible month of bloody battles that changed the course of the world."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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"The Murmansk Run, most dangerous of all sea routes in World War II, was the vital supply line that helped defeat Germany's armies in Russia.
"Here is the first full account of those merchant marine ships and crews. Attacked by land based Stuka dive bombers, trailed by submarine 'wolf packs,' these Allied seamen braved incredible risks in ice-choked no...
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"Trapped between German armored forces and the sea, soldiers marched, ran and crawled through the blazing towns to the beaches; battled for hopeless positions; knelt praying in the sand, while German Stukas dive-bombed them. This was Dunkirk, France, 1940, when men fighting for freedom turned defeat into epic victory. "
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"Americans . . . are often unaware of a greater danger: the Russians' determined drive to become masters of the sea on which America's very life depends."
Eller traces the growth of American sea power from World War II (where...
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"In March, 1942, the Germans captured Hubertus Lauwers, a radioman in the Dutch section of British Special Operations who had parachuted into occupied Holland a year before. The German Abwehr then forced Lauwers to send false messages to Britain and in return receive valuable information for use by the Third Reich.
"The Tangled Web" follows step by step the fate of Lauwers, and reveals the shocking and my...
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"The massive battleship Tirpitz was the pride of the German Navy-the biggest warship in the Western Hemisphere. The very existence of the Tirpitz tied up an entire Allied fleet. It also required the constant vigilance of thousands of planes. This is the story of the desperate attempts to sink a ship that was a deadly danger to the entire war effort. Everything was tried: midget submarines, high-altitude bombers. And frogmen/ These attempts make one of the most fascinating chapters...
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"In 1942, the U-boats took Hitler's blitzkrieg to the sea - until the Allies struck back!
" They were the 'wolves of the sea,' working in packs or alone, ripping apart Allied convoys, spreading terror, death, and destruction from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Now, a naval historian reveals what it was like to live, fight, and face death inside the cram...
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"At Vicksburg, said one of the city's inhabitants, Grant fought the Confederate army in part, but the city and its people mainly. This is the compelling story of these people and their city, caught in civil war. Here were a people who in the tumultuous months of 1860 hesitantly moved from peace to secession and were then caught in the stream of events which relentlessly moved from civil war to siege to final defeat."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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"This volume is one in a continuing series of books now being prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies - Area Handbook Program.
"Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describi...
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"It is December 1941. The devastation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor leaves behind the most humiliating defeat America has ever suffered. But one Pacific island holds on. the world holds its breath and watches as a tiny band of marines miraculously beats back massive enemy invasions by air, land and sea. From jungle to lagoon, beach to foxhole, they would fight in a terrifying inferno of machine gun bullets, blood and sand - surviving on guts and d...
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"From the stealthy, lethal attack to the ear-splitting Klaxon of an emergency crash dive, here is the history of the silent service - of brave, courageous men who dare to live and fight and die beneath the seven seas. Here are the true stories of the valiant crews and lethal ships that have made the record of the submarine service glow with glory!"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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