The Secret of Midway (Ghosts of War #1)

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545665868
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book The Secret of Midway (Ghosts of War #1) written by Steve Watkins and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes alive -- with ghosts! In the basement of his family's junk shop, Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie discover a trunk full of old military stuff, including a battered navy peacoat from World War II with a mysterious letter in the pocket. Curious, Anderson takes both home. Only that's not all he brings home . . .Later that night, the owner of the coat and letter appears in Anderson's room - the ghost of a World War II sailor.But who is the ghost and why hasn't he crossed over? And what does he want with Anderson?Soon Anderson, Julie, and Greg are wrapped up in a mystery that's over seventy years old. Can the friends figure out what happened to the ghost before it's too late?

Lost at Khe Sanh (Ghosts of War #2)

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545665884
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Lost at Khe Sanh (Ghosts of War #2) written by Steve Watkins and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes alive -- with ghosts! Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk of military relics in the basement of his family's junk shop again. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson discovers an old grenade with a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous . . . especially when the ghost of a soldier appears, claiming that it's his lucky grenade from during his service in the Vietnam War. What does this ghost want from Anderson, Greg, and Julie? Is he here for their help - or for something more sinister? It's a race against time as the friends work to solve the mystery!

Miracle at Midway

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148048945X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Miracle at Midway by : Gordon W. Prange

Download or read book Miracle at Midway written by Gordon W. Prange and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is “something special among war histories” (Chicago Sun-Times). Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan’s military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But the US Navy would be waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a significant stroke of luck, the Americans under Adm. Chester W. Nimitz dealt Japan’s navy its first major defeat in the war. Three years of hard fighting remained, but it was at Midway that the tide turned. This “stirring, even suspenseful narrative” is the first book to tell the story of the epic battle from both the American and Japanese sides (Newsday). Miracle at Midway reveals how America won its first and greatest victory of the Pacific war—and how easily it could have been a loss.

"And I was There"

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Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "And I was There" written by Edwin T. Layton and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Admiral Layton, who was the fleet intelligence officer for Admiral Nimitz through out World War II, describes the breakdown in the intelligence process prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and shares his experiences witnessing feuding among high-level naval officers in Washington that contributed to Japan's successful attack. Black-and-wh

The Secret Cabinet of History Peeped Into by a Doctor

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret Cabinet of History Peeped Into by a Doctor by : Augustin Cabanès

Download or read book The Secret Cabinet of History Peeped Into by a Doctor written by Augustin Cabanès and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Battle of Midway

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199315981
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of Midway by : Craig L. Symonds

Download or read book The Battle of Midway written by Craig L. Symonds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2013"--Title page verso.

The Mystery of the Ages Contained in the Secret Doctrine of All Religions

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Total Pages : 588 pages
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Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Ages Contained in the Secret Doctrine of All Religions by : Marie Sinclair Countess of Caithness

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Joe Rochefort's War

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Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612510736
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Book Synopsis Joe Rochefort's War by : Elliot W Carlson

Download or read book Joe Rochefort's War written by Elliot W Carlson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliot Carlson’s award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was. Readers share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto’s fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto’s invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping to change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort’s removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders. For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort’s love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to codebreaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo. He traces Rochefort’s career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy’s codebreaking desk at age twenty-five, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet. An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort’s colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942—a drive that finally paid off in 1986 when the medal was awarded posthumously.

Stanley Johnston's Blunder

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Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682472744
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Book Synopsis Stanley Johnston's Blunder by : Elliot W Carlson

Download or read book Stanley Johnston's Blunder written by Elliot W Carlson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stanley Johnston’s Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway, Elliot Carlson tells the story of Stanley Johnston, a Chicago Tribune reporter who may have exposed a vitally important U.S. naval secret during World War II. In 1942 Johnston is embarked in the aircraft carrier USS Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea. In addition to recording the crew’s doomed effort to save the ship, Johnston displays great heroism, rescuing many endangered officers and men from the sea and earning the praise of the Lexington’s senior officers. They even recommend him for a medal. Then his story darkens. On board the rescue ship Barnett, Johnston is assigned to a cabin where messages from the Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Chester Nimitz, are routinely, and carelessly, circulated. One reveals the order of battle of Imperial Japanese Navy forces advancing on Midway Atoll. Containing information obtained by the Navy’s codebreakers, this dispatch is stamped “Top Secret.” Yet it is casually passed around to some of the Lexington’s officers in the cabin while Johnston is present. Carlson captures the outrage among U.S. Navy brass when they read the 7 June 1942 Chicago Tribune front-page headline, “NAVY HAD WORD OF JAP PLAN TO STRIKE AT SEA.” Admirals note that the information in the Tribune article parallels almost precisely the highly secret material in Nimitz’s dispatch. They fear Japanese commanders will discover the article, grasp that their code has been cracked, and quickly change it, thereby depriving the U.S. Navy of a priceless military asset. When Navy officials confirm that Johnston wrote the story after residing in that Barnett stateroom, they think they understand the “leak.” Drawing on seventy-five-year-old testimony never before released, Carlson takes readers inside the grand jury room where jurors convened by the Roosevelt administration consider charges that Johnston violated the Espionage Act. Jurors hear conflicting testimony from Navy officers while Johnston claims his story came from his own knowledge of the Japanese navy. Using FBI files, U.S. Navy records, archival materials from the Chicago Tribune, and Japanese sources, Carlson, at last, brings to light the full story of Stanley Johnston’s trial.

Sink or Swim: A Novel of World War II

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 133805791X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Sink or Swim: A Novel of World War II written by Steve Watkins and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the true story of the youngest boy who served in World War II, Steve Watkins weaves a story of courage in the face of danger and hope in the face of defeat. It's been a month since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. America is officially at war with Germany and Japan, and everyone wants to do their part. In twelve-year-old Colton's case, that means stepping up at home once his older brother, Danny, ships out with the navy. But before Danny leaves for boot camp, the brothers are fishing on the Atlantic Ocean when Danny's boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, nearly killing him.When more U-boats start attacking the next day, Colton realizes just how close the enemy is to American shores. With Danny's life in the balance, Colton does the only thing he can think of to help his family and his country: He steals his brother's enlisting papers and joins up instead.Colton's bold decision leads to a deadly journey. Even if he can keep his age a secret and survive boot camp, he'll have to face Hitler's ruthless submarines. But the longer he's on the seas, the less sure Colton is that he and his shipmates can stop such a relentless enemy . . .

The Secret Guests

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250133025
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Guests written by Benjamin Black and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When you're done binge-watching The Crown, pick up this multifaceted wartime thriller." —Kirkus Reviews As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain’s secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in Ireland. Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in “neutral” Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford, are assigned to watch over “Ellen” and “Mary” at Clonmillis Hall. But the Irish stable hand, the housemaid, the formidable housekeeper, the Duke himself, and other Irish townspeople, some of whom lost family to English gunshots during the War of Independence, go freely about their business in and around the great house. Soon suspicions about the guests’ true identities percolate, a dangerous boredom sets in for the princesses, and, within and without Clonmillis acreage, passions as well as stakes rise. Benjamin Black, who has good information that the princesses were indeed in Ireland for a time during the Blitz, draws readers into a novel as fascinating as the nascent career of Miss Nashe, as tender as the homesickness of the sisters, as intriguing as Irish-English relations during WWII, and as suspenseful and ultimately action-packed as war itself.

The Secret Life of Anna Blanc

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1633880818
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret Life of Anna Blanc by : Jennifer Kincheloe

Download or read book The Secret Life of Anna Blanc written by Jennifer Kincheloe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1907 Los Angeles. Mischievous socialite Anna Blanc is the kind of young woman who devours purloined crime novels—but must disguise them behind covers of more domestically-appropriate reading. She could match wits with Sherlock Holmes, but in her world women are not allowed to hunt criminals. Determined to break free of the era's rigid social roles, Anna buys off the chaperone assigned by her domineering father and, using an alias, takes a job as a police matron with the Los Angeles Police Department. There she discovers a string of brothel murders, which the cops are unwilling to investigate. Seizing her one chance to solve a crime, she takes on the investigation herself. If the police find out, she'll get fired; if her father finds out, he'll disown her; and if her fiancé finds out, he'll cancel the wedding and stop pouring money into her father's collapsing bank. Midway into her investigation, the police chief's son, Joe Singer, learns her true identity. And shortly thereafter she learns about blackmail. Anna must choose—either hunt the villain and risk losing her father, fiancé, and wealth, or abandon her dream and leave the killer on the loose. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Secret of Midway

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ISBN 13 : 9781484445662
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Midway written by Steve Watkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson, Julie, and Greg become involved in a seventy-year-old mystery when they find a trunk full of old military things in Anderson's family's junk shop and when he brings some of it home the ghost of a World War II sailor appears.

Return to Midway

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Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Return to Midway by : Robert D. Ballard

Download or read book Return to Midway written by Robert D. Ballard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Robert Ballard's challenge for this work was to discover and photograph the ships sunk in the Battle of Midway, one of the most dramatic engagements of the Pacific War. After the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy seemed almost unstoppable, and a final strike in Midway Island was planned by Admiral Yamamoto for June 1942. But the Americans, aware of the plan, were prepared for the attack and in a great victory sank three of the four Japanese carriers, losing only one of their own. The battle was a turning point in the Pacific War and never again would Japan take the offensive. The story of this battle is illustrated using Ballard's underwater photographs of the ships' remains, and Ken Marschall's evocative paintings.

Rides of the Midway: A Novel

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322903
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis Rides of the Midway: A Novel by : Lee Durkee

Download or read book Rides of the Midway: A Novel written by Lee Durkee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-04-17 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon--a clairvoyant, asthma sufferer, insomniac, dopehead, would-be erotic photographer or baseball star, vandal, and somnambulant mercy killer--finds his life spinning out of control as he struggles to cope with his romantic failures, dark secrets, religious zealots, and more. A first novel. Reprint.

The Secret War

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062259296
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret War by : Max Hastings

Download or read book The Secret War written by Max Hastings and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monumental." --New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome. Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.

Sink Or Swim

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Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781338057935
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Sink Or Swim written by Steve Watkins and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the true story of the youngest boy who served in World War II, Steve Watkins weaves a story of courage in the face of danger and hope in the face of defeat. It's been a month since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. America is officially at war with Germany and Japan, and everyone wants to do their part. In twelve-year-old Colton's case, that means stepping up at home once his older brother, Danny, ships out with the navy. But before Danny leaves for boot camp, the brothers are fishing on the Atlantic Ocean when Danny's boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, nearly killing him.When more U-boats start attacking the next day, Colton realizes just how close the enemy is to American shores. With Danny's life in the balance, Colton does the only thing he can think of to help his family and his country: He steals his brother's enlisting papers and joins up instead.Colton's bold decision leads to a deadly journey. Even if he can keep his age a secret and survive boot camp, he'll have to face Hitler's ruthless submarines. But the longer he's on the seas, the less sure Colton is that he and his shipmates can stop such a relentless enemy . . .