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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 993,693 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.49 avg rating — 47,372 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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4.26 avg rating — 39,415 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.25 avg rating — 53,186 ratings
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The Naked and the Dead
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3.95 avg rating — 26,393 ratings
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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3.94 avg rating — 10,616 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
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4.23 avg rating — 25,000 ratings
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
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4.20 avg rating — 6,475 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 61,665 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
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4.22 avg rating — 63,320 ratings
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
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4.30 avg rating — 7,343 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
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4.30 avg rating — 6,093 ratings
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Miracle at Midway
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4.23 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
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4.61 avg rating — 10,102 ratings
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The Battle of Midway
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4.39 avg rating — 3,652 ratings
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine's Account of the Last Battle of World War II
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4.07 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
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4.21 avg rating — 3,727 ratings
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Empire of the Sun
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3.98 avg rating — 22,458 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
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4.36 avg rating — 11,609 ratings
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
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4.23 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
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4.28 avg rating — 4,833 ratings
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The Orchid Tree
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 864 ratings
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A Pledge of Silence
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4.21 avg rating — 6,932 ratings
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A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua
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4.33 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
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4.28 avg rating — 5,169 ratings
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War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
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4.06 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
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Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan
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4.39 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
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4.49 avg rating — 3,700 ratings
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Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
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4.25 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
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The Final Storm (World War II: 1939-1945, #4)
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4.30 avg rating — 5,160 ratings
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Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It
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4.30 avg rating — 236 ratings
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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
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4.24 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
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4.07 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Pieces of Wood
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
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4.20 avg rating — 3,239 ratings
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Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot
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4.35 avg rating — 2,781 ratings
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
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4.53 avg rating — 5,607 ratings
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The House Of Trembling Leaves
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3.78 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
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4.62 avg rating — 7,041 ratings
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Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
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4.03 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
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4.13 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan
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4.27 avg rating — 2,841 ratings
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King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
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4.20 avg rating — 44,225 ratings
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The Fan Tan Players
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3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Battle For Okinawa
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4.01 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Pacific Glory (World War II Navy, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
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Sentinels of Fire (World War II Navy, #3)
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4.49 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
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4.16 avg rating — 3,736 ratings
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Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II
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3.97 avg rating — 147 ratings
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My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War
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4.12 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
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4.26 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Hooper's War
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4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Ghosts of Bungo Suido (World War II Navy, #2)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb
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4.33 avg rating — 715 ratings
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The Nugget (World War II Navy #6)
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4.28 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Horror In The East: Japan And The Atrocities Of World War II
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4.23 avg rating — 551 ratings
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An Artist of the Floating World
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3.78 avg rating — 45,462 ratings
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Kokoda
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4.29 avg rating — 291 ratings
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From Here to Eternity
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4.08 avg rating — 18,074 ratings
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Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
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4.33 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Commodore (World War II Navy, #4)
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4.51 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
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4.20 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
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In The Ruins Of Empire: The Japanese Surrender And The Battle For Postwar Asia
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3.83 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II
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3.89 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
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4.76 avg rating — 5,020 ratings
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Harm's Way
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4.35 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
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4.48 avg rating — 2,392 ratings
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The Caine Mutiny
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4.29 avg rating — 26,847 ratings
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Guadalcanal Diary
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4.29 avg rating — 5,343 ratings
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The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45
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3.80 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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4.16 avg rating — 5,145 ratings
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Japan at War: An Oral History
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4.39 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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Hell's Battlefield
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4.32 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
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4.08 avg rating — 1,033 ratings
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
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4.20 avg rating — 23,084 ratings
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Ash Garden
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3.32 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Not the Slightest Chance: The Defense of Hong Kong, 1941
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Japanese Destroyer Captain
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4.38 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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Nan'yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945
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4.28 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
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3.79 avg rating — 311 ratings
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MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
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3.73 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Day of Infamy
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4.12 avg rating — 4,848 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
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4.33 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
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4.48 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
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The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation From Hometown, USA-Volume I: Voices of the Pacific Theater
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4.40 avg rating — 3,057 ratings
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Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign (Volume 30) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
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4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 88,885 ratings
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Okinawa Odyssey
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Emperor's Irish Slaves: Prisoners Of The Japanese During The Second World War
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4.07 avg rating — 30 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
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3.55 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Corregidor, The Rock Force Assault, 1945
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4.05 avg rating — 44 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
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3.85 avg rating — 805 ratings
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MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Okinawa: Touchstone to Victory (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Battle book No. 12)
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3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Cage on the Sea
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ghostwritten
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4.08 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Decision at Leyte
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
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3.70 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
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4.05 avg rating — 3,600 ratings
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