JH
James Hornfischer
About
Naval historian whose accounts of Leyte Gulf and Guadalcanal are considered among the finest Pacific naval histories.
Books in Database (4)
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors 2004 · 480 pages
Popular History The story of a small American escort carrier group that took on the main Japanese fleet at the Battle off Samar.
Ship of Ghosts 2006 · 530 pages
Popular History The USS Houston's last stand and her crew's three years as slaves on the Burma-Thailand Death Railway.
Neptune's Inferno 2011 · 528 pages
Popular History The savage naval battles around Guadalcanal — among the most costly naval campaigns in American history.
The Fleet at Flood Tide 2016 · 638 pages
Popular History America's war of annihilation in the Pacific, 1944-45 — Saipan, the Marianas Turkey Shoot, and the road to the bomb.