"Based on a true story--P.T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home islands of Japan-and victory. At the heart of the fleet are...

A riveting look at the battle for Okinawa in which the Japanese defenders, in an all-or-nothing attempt to stop the Americans, employed guerrilla tactics, bolstered their defense with women, and sent wave after wave of Kamikaze planes at the attackers.

Disc 1. A look at World War II's turbulent Pacific Theater, following the Allies' island-by-island Pacific campaign, warfare in the steamy jungles from New Guinea to Burma, the air war, including the suicidal Kamikaze attacks and the bombing missions that brought the war to the Japanese homeland, and the hand-to-hand combat and vicious guerrilla warfare at Peleliu. Disc 2. An in-depth look at MacArthur's strategy and the heroic battle for the Philippines,...

After America is drawn into World War II, Hank McCallum finds himself on the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, separated from his brother Theo, in constant danger from torpedoes, and just learning about the prejudice and segregation that plague his new friend from Tonga, Bradford.

Based on extensive interviews with Japanese and American survivors, letters, diaries, and other primary sources, Danger's Hour explores the May 11, 1945, attack on the USS Bunker Hill, one of the deadliest kamikaze attacks of World War II. The book details the story of the ship herself (a technological marvel), her crew, and her kamikaze adversaries. Maxwell Taylor Kennedy shows how crucial this battle was to victory in the Pacific, even though it...

On the morning of December 7, 1941, a surprise attack by Japanese naval aviation against the American held island of Oahu and Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II. This story details one of the most monentous events in American history and a crucial turning point in the 20th century.

Explores the attack at Pearl Harbor, the most notorious first strike of World War II.

Midway, Stalingrad, El Alamein: these great battles of 1942 are the conventional turning points of WWII. Downing advances the decisive events by a year, making a provocative case that the German failure to take Moscow, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the British launching of Operation Crusader in North Africa established the conditions for Axis defeat. All three took place within 22 days, and Downing uses a narrative approach to establish...

The story of America's little known war-within-a war -- that of the "silent service" -- U.S. submarine warfare during World War II.