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Neptune’s Inferno by James D.
Hornfischer $23.00 Media Rate
Priority $28.00 Item B-74
Neptune’s Inferno
is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the
contest for control of the seaways of the
Solomon Islands, America’s first
concerted offensive against the Imperial Japanese juggernaut and the true
turning point of the Pacific conflict. This grim, protracted campaign has
long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of
the Navy’s sacrifice—three sailors died at sea for every man lost ashore—Hornfischer
tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers,
cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom
Sound.”
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Flotsam & Jetsam by Hank McKinney
$27.95 Media Rate Priority
$32.95 Item B-73
For those
who have served you'll see bits of your own service in these stories. And I
would be surprised if some of them don't bring a smile in remembrance. You
will also sense the pang of separation from family, an unavoidable price
paid by those who serve and their families.
For those who haven't served--you'll learn much you didn't know. You'll find
stories that cover the gamut of experience and responsibility, from
midshipman to admiral, told in a refreshing conversational tone.
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Shepherds of the Sea by Robert F. Cross
$28.00 Media Rate Priority $33.00 Item B-72
This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of
ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World
War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. In the Pacific, the
destroyer escorts fought in every major battle, side-by-side with Allied
battleships and destroyers.
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US
Destroyers 1934 - 45 Pre-War Classes by Dave McComb $16.00 Media Rate
($19.00 Priority) Item
B-70
The US Navy's most modern destroyers as it entered World War II were 100
ships from eleven classes introduced in the 1930s: 1,500-tonners and
1,850-ton destroyer leaders designed to conform to the 1930 London Naval
Treaty, plus the successor 1,570-ton Sims class and the first-commissioned
1,620- and 1,630-tonners of the Benson and Gleaves classes.
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US
Destroyers 1942 - 45 Wartime Classes by Dave McComb $16.00 Media Rate
($19.00 Priority) Item
B-71
It features an operational history of the 287 ships commissioned during
World War II, which traces the evolution of night surface action tactics in
the Solomon Islands and the parallel development of the Combat Information
Center; the drive across the Pacific and liberation of the Philippines with
tables showing the rapid introduction of new squadrons; and the radar
pickets' climactic stand against kamikaze aircraft at Okinawa. With
summaries of losses and decorations and specially commissioned artwork, this
is a definitive book on the wartime US destroyer classes.
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A Destroyer Sailor’s War by
Jerome S. Welna
$30.00 Media Rate ($35.00 Priority) Item B-69
The author
provides personal eyewitness details of the nineteen-day naval battle with
naval artillery support for invasion troops at Omaha Beach, including E-boat
and bomber attacks, which ended 24 June with the bombardment and capture of
Cherbourg. Detailed descriptions of problems encountered by assault forces
advancing through the German mined defense system bring the reader to
realize how dangerous it really was for the soldiers to advance up the beach
to the base of the cliffs, which afforded their only protection from
accurate German shell fire.
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At War with the Wind by David Sears
$24.95 Media Rate ($30.00 Priority Rate) Item B-68
This is the candid story of a war within a war a relentless series of
furious and violent engagements pitting men determined to die against men
determined to live. Its echoes resonate hauntingly at a time of global
conflict, when suicide as a weapon remains a perplexing and terrifying
reality.
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A Blue Sea of Blood by Donald M. Kehn, Jr.
$26.00 Media Rate ($31.00 Priority Rate) Item B-67
First to tell the full story of the USS Edsall, a WWI-era destroyer that
disappeared on a mission to Java on March 1, 1942. Drawing on exhaustive
research, military historian Donald Kehn investigates not only the Edsall’s
mysterious final action, but also her wide-ranging pre-war career and the
curious uses to which her story was put—first by the pre-war U.S. Navy and
then by the Japanese wartime propaganda machine. Redressing six decades of
official neglect, his account recovers a significant chapter missing from
the history of World War II and tells a long-overdue story of courage and
tragic loss.
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Murder on Pratas Reef by Rick Ainsworth
$19.95 Media Rate ($25.00 Priority Rate) Item B-66
Finalist for the 2007 National Best Books Award
for Historical Fiction, this book is a must-read! It is July, 1965, just
before dawn in the South China Sea. The USS Frank Knox, a proud US Navy ship
en route from Vietnam to Hong Kong, has just run aground on a reef. The
officers and crew must work together to find a way to free the ship, but
just as they thought matters could not be any worse, a body is discovered
after the grounding. Much worse, it was not accidental, but a murder!
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Thunder and Storm: The Haverfield Incident
by Rick Ainsworth
$24.95 Media Rate ($30.00 Priority Rate) Item B-65
This award-winning novel set in the US Navy in 1963
highlights a neglected period of history. This story of a young man's
journey to maturity, set in the early Sixties, illustrates the eventful
transition from the Greatest Generation to the turbulence, idealism and hope
of the Vietnam era. Exciting, thought-provoking and romantic, enjoyed by men
and women, this novel is a must-read!
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Sumner-Gearing-Class Destroyers by Robert F.
Sumrall
$50.00 Media Rate ($65.00 Priority Rate) Item B-102
The U.S. Navy's Sumner-Gearing-class destroyers served as a standard for
post-World War II destroyer design and development. This handsomely
illustrated work traces the origins of the US Navy's Sumner-Gearing class
destroyers through half a century of changing naval technology, showing the
great advances made in ordnance, fire control and steam engineering. The
destroyers served as a standard for post-World War II destroyer design and
development. This classic work on WWII destroyers is now available again
after being long out of print. |
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Morning of the Rising Sun by Kenneth I. Friedman
$39.99 Media Rate ($53.99 Priority Rate) Item B-64
When it comes to the Pacific theatre of the Second World War, Morning of the
Rising Sun: The Heroic Story of the Struggle for Guadalcanal by author and
historian Kenneth I. Friedman, Ph.D. is the quintessential guide to the epic
and stirring tale of the six-month conflict between the United States and
the Japanese Empire over the vital island of Guadalcanal. Meticulously
researched, the author uses a bipartisan approach to convey the great
dedication and bravery of both the Allied and Japanese fighting men.
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Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke by Bob
Cohen & Terry Miller
Volume One $14.95 + $3.00 Shipping Item B-62
Volume Two $14.95 + $3.00 Shipping Item B-63
Scurvy
Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke: Fifty Years in U.S. Navy Destroyers is a
two-volume work of 18 destroyer veterans, many of whom, including TCS
Executive Director, Terry Miller, have had stories published in The Tin
Can Sailor. These two books are filled with stories from the experiences
of these men.
All profits from the sales of this book will go to benefit
Navy-Marine Corps
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Quicksilver: A Greyhound at Sea by CDR. Jack L.
Wells
$18.95 Media Rate ($23.95 Priority Rate) Item B-60
This book
portrays men at sea in a difficult and unpopular war. In the fall of 1967,
Vietnam was on the way to becoming an American nightmare. Yet each man had
to find his own way to cope with the exhaustion, boredom, and, ultimately,
combat with a resourceful and persistent enemy. Ens. Patrick Dillan was
assigned to the USS LARTER (DD 766). Only 26, he was a bit of a rebel on
what was supposed to be a six-month WestPac deployment. The reader will
learn how he dealt with normal evolutions, port calls, and combat while
wrestling with his own and his ship mate=s
emotions.
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Tales from
a Tin Can by Michael Keith Olson
$20.00 Media Rate ($25.00 Priority Rate) Item B-59
The first oral history of one combat ship's
adventures, sometimes comic, sometimes mundane, sometimes heart wrenching,
over the entire course of America's involvement in the Pacific. An
impressive accomplishment and highly recommended. WWII History.
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Inside the
Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-1988 by Harold Lee
Wise
$30.00 Media Rate ($35.00 Priority Rate) Item B-58
A history of U.S. military involvement in
the Persian Gulf in 1987 and 1988--a time of burning ships, air strikes, and
secret missions--the prelude to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Desert Storm,
and the most recent U.S. invasion of Iraq. Based largely on first-hand
accounts from veterans of that era, it is an up-close, detailed report from
the front lines of a guerrilla war at sea. Many of the dramatic incidents of
this period are told in depth, with new information and details never before
seen in print.
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Halsey's Typhoon by Bob
Drury and Tom Clavin
$22.00 Media Rate ($27.00 Priority Rate) Item B-53
In December 1944, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey and the U.S. 3rd Fleet
confronted an onslaught as relentless and deadly as any Japanese attack. A
powerful typhoon, surging with 150 mile-per-hour winds, struck the warships
in the deepest, most shark-infested waters of the Pacific. Using recently
declassified official documents, Halsey's Typhoon captures the
unfolding of this "natural" wartime calamity.
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DESTROYER DESIGN by Howard A. Chatterton, Jr.
$14.95 (Shipping charge $2.50) Item B-49
This publication describes the destroyer design process. Use of a
computer allows the techniques described here to be done quickly and
consistently in much greater detail than was possible by hand. |
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NO HIGHER HONOR
by Bradley Peniston.
$23.00 Media Rate ($28.00 Priority Rate) Item B-50
The USS Samuel B. Robert (FFG-58) was a small warship built for
escort duty much like its namesake vessel, on of the "tin can" heroes of
Leyte Gulf. Journalist Bradley Peniston draws on hundreds of documents and
interviews to present the first book about the Roberts heroic
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SHIP OF GHOSTS
by James D. Hornfischer.
$22.00 Media Rate ($27.00 Priority Rate) Item B-51
James D. Hornfischer, acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin
Can Sailors, delivers an unflinching account of heroism and honor at the
limit of human endurance--and of the unsung warriors who waged one of the
most remarkable battles of World War II.
Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including
testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness
accounts of Houston's survivors.
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MODERN U.S. NAVY DESTROYERS
by S. F. Tomajczyk.
$14.95
(Shipping charge $2.50)
Item B-52
This book takes you below the deck of some of the most feared ships in
the world. A tour inside the destroyer including the computerized
Combat Information Center, the spacious Arleigh Burke-class dining
area, the cramped Spurance-class crew's quarters, the surprisingly
quiet engine control room and the flight control room.
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A CALL TO COLORS
by John J. Gobbell.
$8.00 Media Rate ($13.00 Priority Rate) Item B-54
The Battle of Leyte Gulf took place on October 24 and 25 in 1944.
Without a doubt it was the final battle in the history of the world where
naval surface combatants were in actual physical sight of each other. The
author takes us back to that tenuous time late in the war when most of the
strategic minds within the U.S. and Japanese militaries were certain of one
thing. The Japanese had lost the war. The questions that remained were, how
would the remaining resources of the Japanese armed services be used.
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"Truman's Decision" by Bill Sholin.
$12.00 Media Rate ($17.00 Priority Rate) Item B-56
U.S. destroyermen stood between thousands of Kamilkazes and the U.S.
Fleet. They paid a terrible price -- but virtually saved America. The
following pictorial review will give our readers a hint of what American
sailors went through to keep the United States of America free. |
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Sea
of Thunder by Evan Thomas.
$27.00 Media Rate
($32.00 Priority Rate)
Item B-57
The book tells the story of the Japanese and
American commanders whose fates converged in history's last great naval
engagement, the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. It is also a story of
competing traditions and the extraordinary influence of personality,
organizations and culture on warfare -- despite the advanced technologies
wielded in World War II.
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THE NEPTUNE STRATEGY by John J. Gobbell.
$22.00 Media Rate ($27.00 Priority Rate) Item B-47
This is
Gobbell’s fourth book in the series. Commander Todd Ingram finds himself in
many dangerous situations and is successful in “getting out” of his
dilemmas. As in the previous stories, actual military events, real persons
and warship details are carefully woven into the telling of the story.
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THE LAST LIEUTENANT by John J. Gobbell.
$8.00 Media Rate ($13.00 Priority Rate) Item B-41
This is the first book in a series of three books. This book focuses on an
escape from Corregidor as it succumbs to incessant bombardment, thus ending
U.S. organized resistance in the Philippines. Paperback.
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A Code for Tomorrow by John J. Gobbell.
$9.00 Media Rate ($14.00 Priority Rate) Item B-42
The second in a series of three. From the whispers of lovers parted by
war to the explosive, harrowing naval action in the Battle of the Santa Cruz
Islands, "A Code for Tomorrow" brilliantly portrays WW II and the lives it
irrevocably touched. Paperback.
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When Duty Whispers Low by John J. Gobbell.
$20.00 Media Rate ($25.00
Priority Rate) Item B-43
The third in a series. Highly recommended. Although fiction, this book uses
actual historical events to follow the exploits of LCDR. Todd Ingram during
WW II. Linked to the story are the shooting down of Admiral Yamamoto and the
introduction of the highly secret VT proximity fuze. An excellent book. Hard Cover.
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USS KIDD (DD-661) by Robert F. Sumrall.
$14.95
(Shipping charge $2.50)
Item B-38
The latest in our book series. Our USS
KIDD book has 80 pages of text, drawings,
and photos. Written for Tin Can Sailors by internationally known author
Robert F. Sumrall.
This book details the ship’s history, construction, and
equipment. An outstanding publication that you will find both enjoyable
and informative. An excellent value. |
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U.S. NAVY DESTROYERS LOST OR DAMAGED DURING WORLD WAR II
by Tin Can Sailors.
$10.95 (Shipping
charge $2.50)
Item
B-15
Twenty eight pages of listings of ships lost or damaged due to
enemy action, collisions, storms, friendly fire, etc. Gives the name of the
ship, location, and cause of damage. Over 40 photos. A Tin Can Sailors
exclusive! Third edition. |
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DESTROYER ESCORTS OF WORLD WAR II
by Thomas F. Walkowiak.
$9.00
(Shipping charge $2.50)
Item B-4
This inexpensive, large-format paperback present a truly exceptional overview of the
destroyer escorts developed during the Second World War. Paperback, 48 pages, with photos,
illustrations, diagrams, and color renderings. |
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WARSHIP'S DATA: USS MISSOURI
(BB-63)
by Robert F. Sumrall
$9.50 Item B-22 Media Rate
In
depth descriptions of the Missouri and her career. Paperback, 64 pages
with photos, illustrations, diagrams, and color renderings. |
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HISTORIC NAVAL SHIPS GUIDE by the Historic Naval
Ships Association.
$8.95
(Shipping charge $2.50)
Item B-16
This guide to more than 130 ships on
public display is packed with color photos, information about the ships,
and their locations, phone numbers, and web sites. Paperback, 98 pages and
about 200 photos. |
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