Hal Koerner

Adam Chase

Scott Jurek

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

Training for an Ultramarathon, from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond

A comprehensive reference to competitively running ultramarathons shares practical advice and stories from the author's own training and racing as well as recommendations for proper fueling, race-day preparations, and key mental strategies.

Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning

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Harold L. Buell

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Dive Bomber Pilot's Epic Story of the Carrier Battles

Dauntless Helldivers

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Remembering Pensacola’s part in World War II

F. F. Bingham

Summer Cruises in West Florida Waters, 1912-1915

Log of the Peep O'Day

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Jack. London

Captivating tale of true adventures recounts, with wry good humor, the hardships of a two-year voyage aboard a diminutive and leaky craft. Vital, colorful narrative transcends stormy seas and navigational doubts for breathtaking accounts of natural beauties and hospitality of South Pacific islands. Enhanced with 119 original photographs.

The Cruise of the Snark

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Harold Guard

A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan

"This book describes the Pacific War as seen firsthand by one of the Allies' top war correspondents, who observed and often participated in actions on land, sea and air."--Jacket.

The Pacific War Uncensored

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H. P. Willmott

The Period of Balance, May 1942-October 1943

From May 1942 to October 1943, Japan and the US engaged in clashes in the Southwest Pacific. Forces on both sides were evenly matched, and the troops fought one another to exhaustion. This book looks at the war with Japan, focusing on this period of balance between US and Japanese forces.

The War with Japan

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Nathan Miller

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

This work traces the rise of carrier-based air forces from defensive escort duty in the North Atlantic to the climactic duels in the Pacific that forever changed the nature of sea power.

The Naval Air War, 1939-1945

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The Story of a Fabulous Airplane

The DC-3

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The AT-6 Harvard

Lawrence Suid

Hollywood and the U. S. Navy

For most of the past 90 years, Hollywood has used the Navy to freely obtain personnel, equipment, and locations for movies filled with adventure, romance, and drama, while the Navy gained a public image that boosted its recruiting efforts and its relations with Congress. Although the Vietnam War dis

Sailing on the Silver Screen

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Thomas Wildenberg

Dive Bombing, Midway, and the Evolution of Carrier Airpower

On 4 June 1942 three squadrons of U.S. Navy Dauntless dive bombers set fire to three-quarters of Japan's carrier strike force at Midway and changed the course of the war in the Pacific. Japan was never able to recover its offensive initiative. As Thomas Wildenberg convincingly demonstrates in this book, the key ingredient to the navy's success at Midway was the planning and training devoted to the tactic of dive bombing over the previous seventeen years. Examining how political, economic, technical, and operational factors influenced the development of carrier airpower between 1925 and 1942, he shows why dive bombing became the navy's weapon of choice - why it was emphasized over all other methods of aerial warfare and finally brought to bear to stop the Japanese advance. He also pays tribute to the select group of naval aviators and senior leaders whose insights and determination drove the evolution of carrier tactics in this formative period.

Destined for Glory

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Peter S. Smith

The Battle That Turned the Tide of the Pacific War

"It is doubtful whether the full and complete story of the Battle of the Midway will ever be told. Such is the complexity of modern naval warfare, and especially the air/sea battles. Midway was a confusing battle, fought across the International Dateline, and, despite the enormous flood of writing on it, many points of detail remain open to differing interpretations ... This book includes some basic information for the more general reader in the USA, Japan or Great Britain, to whom for many the war at sea in the Pacific between 1941 and 1945 still remains largely unknown and unstudied"--Author's note.

The Battle of Midway

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C. Raymond Calhoun

The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944

Typhoon - The Other Enemy

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Alvin Kernan

A Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey

Kernan (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) relates his experiences in the US Navy during WWII. He fought in the battles of Midway and Okinawa, survived the sinking of the carrier USS Hornet at Guadalcanal in 1942, and was involved as an aerial gunner in the first night-fighter action off carriers in 1943. Includes numerous bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Crossing the Line

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Edward C. Raymer

Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir

A memoir detailing the salvage operations performed at Pearl Harbor after the Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah were sunk by the Japanese. Raymer, chief diver during the operations, describes the rescue attempts and the eery diving expeditions made to recover war material. The combination of working in the dark with sharks, floating human bodies, and under threat from Japanese attack above make the story compelling, a combination between Stephen King and Hermann Wouk. No index or bibliography. Includes photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Descent into Darkness

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Samuel Eliot Morison

Emily Morison Beck

The Best of Samuel Eliot Morison

Sailor Historian

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Mitsuo Fuchida

Masatake Okumiya

Raymond A. Spruance

Thomas R. Buell

The Battle that Doomed Japan

Considered the best account available of the Japanese view of the battle.

Midway

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The Wartime Sermons of Dr. Peter Marshall

The collection of biography and autobiography

Two Years before the Mast

Wings 

F. W. Robinson

Navy Wings of Gold

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Bryan Cooper

The Story of the Bomber, 1914-1945

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John G. Stoessinger

Why Nations Go to War

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John Martin

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