The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II

On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to...

The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy Dec 1941-Jun 1942

On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese met in combat for the first time in the Battle...

Guadalcanal: the Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle

“Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.”—LA Times Book Review

The battle at Guadalcanal—which began...

The Battle of Midway

In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, leading naval historian Craig L. Symonds paints an...

World War II At Sea A Global History

World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection:...

The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea

Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz,...

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Drawing on new primary sources and personal accounts by Americans and Japanese alike, The Fleet at Flood Tide is a thrilling narrative of the...

Macarthur At War

The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.World War II...

Hell under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway

Kelly E. Crager consulted official documentary sources of the National Archives and the U.S. Army and mined the personal memoirs and oral history...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried...

Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts—nicknamed the “Davao Dozen”—executed a daring escape from one of...

Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II

Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate...

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States...

My Pearl Harbor Scrapbook 1941: A Nostalgic Collection of Memories

History comes alive in this award-winning WW II scrapbook, bursting with old photos, maps, telegrams, newspaper clippings, hand-written notes and letters! Experience the tragedy...

I’m Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC

I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John...

The Pacific War: 1941-1945

The definitive one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific theater, The Pacific War was the first book to weave together the separate...

Day of Infamy

December 7, 1941, began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan’s deadly torpedoes suddenly rained down on ...

National Musuem of the Pacific War Guidebook - 2nd Edition

Just Arrived! The 2nd edition of National Museum of the Pacific War Official Guidebook 48 pages full of beautiful photos and information from...

Nimitz by E. B. Potter

Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War...

Chester W. Nimitz: Admiral of the Hills

From his boyhood days in the Hill Country of Central Texas to the apogee of his career as Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific, Chester W....