World War II - Pacific Theatre

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating β€” 45,851 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β€” 989,290 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission 4.25 avg rating β€” 38,788 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating β€” 50,763 ratings
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The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating β€” 26,166 ratings
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Bridge Over the River Kwai 3.94 avg rating β€” 10,407 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific 4.23 avg rating β€” 24,391 ratings
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War 4.19 avg rating β€” 6,387 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice 4.15 avg rating β€” 60,771 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers 4.22 avg rating β€” 62,884 ratings
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal 4.30 avg rating β€” 7,224 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 4.30 avg rating β€” 5,936 ratings
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Miracle at Midway
Miracle at Midway 4.23 avg rating β€” 5,009 ratings
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 4.61 avg rating β€” 9,761 ratings
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The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway 4.39 avg rating β€” 3,570 ratings
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine's Account of the Last Battle of World War II
Okinawa: A Decorated Marine's Account of the Last Battle of World War II 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,603 ratings
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor 4.21 avg rating β€” 3,692 ratings
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Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun 3.98 avg rating β€” 22,083 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour 4.35 avg rating β€” 11,394 ratings
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,268 ratings
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 4.28 avg rating β€” 4,732 ratings
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The Orchid Tree
The Orchid Tree 4.03 avg rating β€” 815 ratings
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A Pledge of Silence
A Pledge of Silence 4.21 avg rating β€” 6,917 ratings
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A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua
A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua 4.33 avg rating β€” 166 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 4.28 avg rating β€” 5,080 ratings
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War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,871 ratings
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Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan 4.36 avg rating β€” 968 ratings
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway 4.48 avg rating β€” 3,599 ratings
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Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific 4.24 avg rating β€” 3,460 ratings
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The Final Storm (World War II: 1939-1945, #4)
The Final Storm (World War II: 1939-1945, #4) 4.30 avg rating β€” 5,060 ratings
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Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It
Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It 4.29 avg rating β€” 231 ratings
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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II 4.24 avg rating β€” 608 ratings
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Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan 4.08 avg rating β€” 2,580 ratings
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Pieces of Wood
Pieces of Wood 4.54 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath 4.20 avg rating β€” 3,191 ratings
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Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot 4.35 avg rating β€” 2,728 ratings
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East 4.53 avg rating β€” 5,337 ratings
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The House Of Trembling Leaves
The House Of Trembling Leaves 3.77 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2) 4.62 avg rating β€” 6,745 ratings
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Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima 4.02 avg rating β€” 429 ratings
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Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II 4.13 avg rating β€” 306 ratings
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Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan 4.27 avg rating β€” 2,782 ratings
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King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
King Rat (Asian Saga, #4) 4.19 avg rating β€” 43,422 ratings
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The Fan Tan Players
The Fan Tan Players 3.73 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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The Battle For Okinawa
The Battle For Okinawa really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 181 ratings
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Pacific Glory (World War II Navy, #1)
Pacific Glory (World War II Navy, #1) 4.36 avg rating β€” 1,749 ratings
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Sentinels of Fire (World War II Navy, #3)
Sentinels of Fire (World War II Navy, #3) 4.49 avg rating β€” 922 ratings
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 4.16 avg rating β€” 3,678 ratings
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Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II
Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II 3.97 avg rating β€” 148 ratings
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My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War
My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War 4.11 avg rating β€” 88 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir 4.28 avg rating β€” 160 ratings
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Hooper's War
Hooper's War 4.08 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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Ghosts of Bungo Suido (World War II Navy, #2)
Ghosts of Bungo Suido (World War II Navy, #2) 4.29 avg rating β€” 1,156 ratings
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The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb 4.33 avg rating β€” 705 ratings
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The Nugget (World War II Navy #6)
The Nugget (World War II Navy #6) 4.28 avg rating β€” 691 ratings
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Horror In The East: Japan And The Atrocities Of World War II
Horror In The East: Japan And The Atrocities Of World War II 4.22 avg rating β€” 526 ratings
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An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World 3.78 avg rating β€” 43,695 ratings
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Kokoda
Kokoda
by: Paul Ham
4.29 avg rating β€” 287 ratings
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From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity 4.08 avg rating β€” 17,968 ratings
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Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway 4.32 avg rating β€” 414 ratings
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The Commodore (World War II Navy, #4)
The Commodore (World War II Navy, #4) 4.52 avg rating β€” 1,163 ratings
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,242 ratings
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In The Ruins Of Empire: The Japanese Surrender And The Battle For Postwar Asia
In The Ruins Of Empire: The Japanese Surrender And The Battle For Postwar Asia 3.84 avg rating β€” 319 ratings
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The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II
The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II 3.89 avg rating β€” 438 ratings
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 4.76 avg rating β€” 4,718 ratings
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Harm's Way
Harm's Way 4.35 avg rating β€” 1,162 ratings
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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 4.48 avg rating β€” 2,336 ratings
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The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny 4.29 avg rating β€” 26,470 ratings
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Guadalcanal Diary
Guadalcanal Diary 4.28 avg rating β€” 5,271 ratings
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The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45 3.80 avg rating β€” 166 ratings
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II 4.15 avg rating β€” 5,020 ratings
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Japan at War: An Oral History
Japan at War: An Oral History 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,001 ratings
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Hell's Battlefield
Hell's Battlefield 4.31 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,025 ratings
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage 4.20 avg rating β€” 22,803 ratings
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Ash Garden
Ash Garden 3.33 avg rating β€” 771 ratings
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Not the Slightest Chance: The Defense of Hong Kong, 1941
Not the Slightest Chance: The Defense of Hong Kong, 1941 4.18 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Japanese Destroyer Captain
Japanese Destroyer Captain 4.37 avg rating β€” 1,195 ratings
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Nan'yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945
Nan'yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 3.85 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945
Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 4.29 avg rating β€” 164 ratings
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The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War 3.79 avg rating β€” 309 ratings
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MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II 3.72 avg rating β€” 372 ratings
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Day of Infamy
Day of Infamy 4.12 avg rating β€” 4,772 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two 4.34 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor 4.48 avg rating β€” 1,551 ratings
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The Things Our Fathers Sawβ€”The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation From Hometown, USA-Volume I: Voices of the Pacific Theater
The Things Our Fathers Sawβ€”The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation From Hometown, USA-Volume I: Voices of the Pacific Theater 4.40 avg rating β€” 2,978 ratings
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Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign (Volume 30) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign (Volume 30) (Campaigns and Commanders Series) 4.48 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Okinawa Odyssey
Okinawa Odyssey
by: Bob Green
4.25 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Emperor's Irish Slaves: Prisoners Of The Japanese During The Second World War
The Emperor's Irish Slaves: Prisoners Of The Japanese During The Second World War really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II 3.56 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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Corregidor, The Rock Force Assault, 1945
Corregidor, The Rock Force Assault, 1945 3.98 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific
Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific 3.85 avg rating β€” 798 ratings
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MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945
MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945 4.54 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Okinawa: Touchstone to Victory (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Battle book No. 12)
Okinawa: Touchstone to Victory (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Battle book No. 12) 3.79 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Cage on the Sea
Cage on the Sea liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Ghostwritten
Ghostwritten 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,283 ratings
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Decision at Leyte
Decision at Leyte 4.25 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima 3.70 avg rating β€” 176 ratings
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
Baa Baa Black Sheep 4.04 avg rating β€” 3,552 ratings
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Breaking the Code: A Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything
Breaking the Code: A Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything 3.53 avg rating β€” 514 ratings
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