Provides an account of the 1942 battle of Midway and the high-tech hunt for the lost ships fifty-six years later

"A gripping tale of anti-submarine warfare in the World War II Pacific Theater, by a master of military adventure fiction. The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann is based on the true story of the USS Hayward (DE-24), a World War II Atlantic Fleet destroyer escort which has spent the past two years in the unforgiving battle for survival against the German U-boats of the North Atlantic. Summoned to relieve destroyers that are bogged down by escort duty...

A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way--a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four...

Examines the events and personalities that were instrumental in Japan's adoption of kamikazi, or suicide, missions in the later stages of World War II.

Short biographies and pictures of the survivors of the Indianapolis, compiled by the wife of survivor Paul Murphy.

Retells one of the great rescue stories of World War II, with details of kamikaze attacks, typhoons, and torpedo attacks as the light cruiser Santa Fe struggled to rescue the crew of the sinking aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Franklin.

"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang"; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping barrage"....