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Edwin P. Hoyt
A chronicle of one of WWII's most dramatic and secret operations.
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Throughout the spring and summer of 1945, Major General Curtis LeMay and his squadron of B29 bombers targeted Tokyo and numerous Japanese cities with near-nightly incendiary bombing campaigns.
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Vice-admiral Matome Ugaki embarked upon a kamikaze mission when Emperor Hirohito surrendered Japan in August 1945. His plane was shot down by US nightfighters but he left a wartime diary…
Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully examines the issues behind the war in the Pacific and sheds new light on the China Question, the rape…
This biography of Japanese army general and dictatorial prime minister Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) covers his early, easy World War II victories (including Pearl Harbor); his subsequent crushing defeats; and his…
This is the story of a man and a navy, and their shared death wish–Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki and the Imperial Japanese Navy. In 1945, both achieved their wish, with…
Based on oral testimony from field soldiers, both new recruits and veterans, The GI’s War puts the reader on the frontlines and captures in unsparing detail the confusion, monotony, terror…
The U-Boat Wars draws on German, British, and American naval archives to illuminate the deadly battles that were fought beneath the sea.
Hoyt’s new book on World War II examines the war from the viewpoint of the Soviet leader, Josef Stalin. Hoyt takes into account how the dictator weakened his own armed…
Hoyt’s biography, taking advantage of recent posthumous revelations of a Japanese foreign service diplomat, portrays Hirohito as a man of peace held captive by his role in Japanese society and…
For the legions of submarine enthusiasts, here is an unforgettable account of submarine warfare.
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A chronicle of one of WWII’s most dramatic and secret operations.
A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy-an assault that was marked by argument and dissent…
The story of World War II from the vantage point of its instigator German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).
Edwin P Hoyt
This work is an account of what happened in spring 1942 when the weak US Navy intercepted the large Japanese fleet in the Coral Sea. For the first time, opposing…
An account of the battle for Stalingrad, a World War II conflict that cost over three million lives. The siege was a hinge upon which the course of history rested…
Edwin Hoyt
More than 70 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II.
