Pacific War – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 5

Punyaphan Klykoom

For a Greater Realm

No combatant nation of the Second World War has been more forgotten than Thailand. Ignored by most histories of the war, the Southeast Asian kingdom conducted campaigns outside its borders and kept an arm…

Carl O Dunbar,

Before They Were the Black Sheep

Through a trove of World War II letters written by a pilot in the Solomon Islands campaign, this book offers a glimpse of what life was like for a soldier caught up in the war of his generation.

Festival Der Chöre

Theodore F. Cook, Haruko Taya Cook

"Sacred War"

The first effort to reconstruct the history of the Pacific War exclusively from internal Japanese sources, from the renowned historiansA magisterial work of political, social, and military history, Sacred…

Creed

Greatest Hits

Mit mehr als 30 Millionen Platten war Creed die erfolgreichste Rock-Band der letzten Dekade und diese Platte spiegelt wunderbar die Entwicklung von Creed während dieser Ära wieder. Die Tracklist beinhalte…

Witchfynde

Give 'Em Hell (180g)

1979, als die glorreiche NWOBHM über Großbritannien hinwegfegte, waren die Mitglieder von Witchfynde zwischen 23 und 27 Jahre alt. »Wie andere junge Bands zu dieser Zeit waren wir vom Interesse am Heavy M…

Jeffrey Cox

Devil's Fire, Southern Cross

A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the crucial Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign during the Pacific War by esteemed World War II historian Jeffrey Cox.This page-turning history examines th…

Richard Overy

Rain of Ruin

With the development of the B-29 "Superfortress" in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan ex…

Richard Overy

Rain of Ruin

Praise for Richard OveryBlood and Ruins"[A] stupendous achievement...Blood and Ruins dissects the sinews of war with the sharpest of scalpels...It is history at its best, down to the finest points.&q…

Mark Sy

The Manila Poker Club

During the late 1930s, a small group of American and Filipino diplomats played cards regularly. While their poker matches started as an excuse to smoke cigars and discuss political events of the day, it r…

Iain Macgregor

The Hiroshima Men

An epic, riveting history based on new interviews and research that elucidates the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the Jap…

Dan Black

Oceans of Fate

The remarkable story of how one ship - doomed by war - intersected lives and crossed into history.Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly 30 years. Built fo…

Iain Macgregor

The Hiroshima Men

An epic, "painstakingly researched" (Los Angeles Times) work of historical nonfiction, based on new interviews and research, that elucidates the approval, construction, and fateful decision to d…

Evelyn Iritani

Safe Passage

An untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American-Japanese contacts in World War II. In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and …

Bud Shank (1926-2009)

Barefoot Adventure (180g)

Impex Records freut sich, eine neue, audiophile HQ-180-LP und SACD/Hybrid-Veröffentlichung von Bud Shanks entscheidendem Klassiker aus dem Jahr 1961, Barefoot Adventure, anzukündigen. Mit Originalkompos…

Samantha Bresnahan

In Blood, Flowers Bloom

"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese …

James M Scott

Empire of Ashes

Over three days in August 1945, a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians killed 120,000 men, women, and children; doomed tens of thousands more to agonizing death in the weeks and months …

David Vincent

Nose Art of the 5th Air Force

More than 1,000 images of the boldest aircraft nose artworks of the 5th Air Force during WWII; includes contextual information on individual artists and specific planes.

Der große Trip

DER GROSSE TRIP - WILD ist die wahre Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Abenteuers: Nach Jahren des ziellosen Umhertreibens, einer Heroinsucht und dem Ende ihrer Ehe, trifft Cheryl Strayed eine wagemutige…