Interesting books;JamesD.Hornfischer ...today's John Tolland

by Rob Leahy , Prescott, Arizona, Sunday, August 05, 2012, 11:06 (4440 days ago) @ brionic

& Cornelius Ryan with a little Stephen Ambrose tossed in.
Neptune's Inferno (naval battles around Guadalcanal, in stark detail), Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (The battle of US Escort Carriers and Destroyers against the mightiest battleships in the pacific) and Ship of Ghosts; the USS Huston, flagship of our Asiatic fleet...along with Dutch, British and Australian cruisers went down fighting the overwhelming Japanese fleet.
http://www.amazon.com/James-D.-Hornfischer/e/B001IO9V3O/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

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