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James Hornfischer

USA · Pacific naval warfare

About

Naval historian whose accounts of Leyte Gulf and Guadalcanal are considered the finest Pacific.

Books in Database (4)

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors cover
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors 2004 · 480 pages

The story of a small American escort carrier group that took on the main Japanese fleet at the Battle off.

Popular History
Ship of Ghosts cover
Ship of Ghosts 2006 · 530 pages

The USS Houston's last stand and her crew's three years as slaves on the Burma-Thailand Death Railway.

Popular History
Neptune's Inferno cover
Neptune's Inferno 2011 · 528 pages

The savage naval battles around Guadalcanal — the most costly naval campaign in American history.

Popular History
The Fleet at Flood Tide cover
The Fleet at Flood Tide 2016 · 638 pages

America's war of annihilation in the Pacific, 1944-45 — Saipan, the Marianas Turkey Shoot, and the road to the bomb.

Popular History

Events Covered

1942 Guadalcanal Campaign 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf 1945 Atomic Bombings 1942 Burma Campaign