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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
Author
Pub. Date
1900
Physical Desc
252 p.
Language
English
Description
Summary of events of the War of the Rebellion, 1860-1865, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1900, troubles in China, 1900 with other valuable information in regard to the various wars. Compiled from official records by Newton A. Strait.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts in the fog is the first narrative nonfiction book for young adults to tell the riveting story of how the Japanese invaded and occupied the Aleutian Islands in Alaska during World War II. This fascinating little-known piece of American history is told from the point of view of the American civilians who were captured and taken prisoner, along with the American and Japanese soldiers who fought in one of the bloodiest battles of hand-to-hand...
7) Battle ready
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 32
Physical Desc
450 p.
Language
English
Description
Includes index.
Author
Publisher
Heritage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxv, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Cloaked by jungle foliage, the unheralded seaplane tenders operated ahead of the Fleet, like the Navy's famed PT boats. As Halsey's South Pacific, MacArthur's southwest Pacific, and Spruance's Central Pacific forces advanced toward Japan, these ships served as afloat-bases for patrol planes referred to as the "eyes of the fleet". The Japanese were keen to destroy the scouts and their floating bases, and seaplane tenders often lived a furtive existence,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary leadership and strategy led the United States to success during World War I and beyond. By the first half of the twentieth century, technology had transformed warfare into a series of intense bloodbaths in which the line between soldiers and civilians was obliterated, resulting in the deaths of one...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the daring mission of the elite U.S. Army Sixth Ranger Battalion to slip behind enemy lines in the Philippines and rescue the 513 American and British POWs who had spent over three years in a hellish, Japanese-run camp near Cabanatuan.
