Eric Hammel: 39 books

Book cover of Marines on New Britain

Marines on New Britain

Cape Gloucester and Rabaul. A Pictorial Record

by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

The Guadalcanal-blooded 1st Marine Division’s assault on Cape Gloucester in western New Britain on December 26, 1943, was unconnected to the preceding seventeen-month slog along the nearby Solomon Islands chain. Nor did it have anything to do with the neutralization of the Japanese naval and air...
Book cover of The Road to Big Week
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012

THE ROAD TO BIG WEEK: The Struggle for Daylight Air Supremacy Over Western Europe, July 1942February 1944 by Eric Hammel = The Road to Big Week begins with a thorough examination of American development of a strategic bombing doctrine from its earliest conception after World War I. Balancing the demands...
Book cover of Air War Europa: Chronology
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012

AIR WAR EUROPA: Chronology by Eric Hammel -- Follow the great Amerian aerial crusade of World War II over North Africa and Europe. This exhaustive chronology sheds a fascinating light on the course of Americas air war against Germany and her Axis partners. * The Air War Europa Chronology is a day-by-day...
Book cover of Marines on Guadalcanal
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

The six-month Guadalcanal campaign was the longest and most complicated operation U.S. Marines faced in the Pacific War. In July 1942, when it was discovered that the Japanese were building a bomber base on the island, the 1st Marine Division was the only Allied force available to respond to the threat....
Book cover of Aces Against Japan II
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009

Aces Against Japan IIThe American Aces SpeakEric HammelCombat historian Eric Hammel comes through with an engrossing new collection of first-person accounts by American World War II fighter aces.Coupled with a clear overview of America's air war against Japan, Hammel's detailed interviews bring forth...
Book cover of Always Faithful

Always Faithful

The 100 Best Photos of U.S. Marines in World War II Combat

by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

A Picture is worth a thousand words In his *Always Faithful, noted military historian Eric Hammel has assembled one hundred Marine Corpsa combat photos from the Pacific Theater of operations during World War II. Together these tell the story of the Marines’ costly victory over the Japanese. Over...
Book cover of Marines in the Marshalls. A Pictorial Record
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

By early 1944 the Americans’ westward drive across the Pacific required airfields in the Marshall Islands, at Kwajalein and Eniwetok atolls. In late January, the 4th Marine Division and U.S. Army troops wrenched control of Kwajalein Atoll in three days of heavy fighting. Then, beginning February...
Book cover of Carrier Strike
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011

CARRIER STRIKEThe Battle of the Santa Cruz IslandsOctober 1942By Eric HammelThe Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, a strategic naval action in the bitter Guadalcanal Campaign, was historys fourth carrier-versus-carrier naval battle. Though technically a Japanese victory, the battle proved to be the Empire...
Book cover of Chosin
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011

ChosinHeroic Ordeal of the Korean WarEric HammelTold from the point of view of the men in the foxholes and tanks, outposts, and command posts, Eric Hammels Chosin is the definitive account of the epic retreat under fire of the 1st Marine Division from the Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. The author...
Book cover of The Forge
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012

THE FORGE: The Decline and Rebirth of the American Military, November 12, 1918 to December 6, 1941 by Eric Hammel = Because the United States military undertook its first World War II offensive operations in the Pacific within only eight months of Pearl Harbor, most historians and readers of the wars...
Book cover of Carrier Clash
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011

CARRIER CLASHThe Invasion of Guadalcanal &the Battle of the Eastern SolomonsAugust 1942Eric HammelThe Battle of the Eastern Solomons was historys third carrier clash. A collision of U.S. Navy and Imperial Navy carriers in the wake of the invasion of Guadalcanalwhose airfield the United States desperately...
Book cover of Marines on Okinawa

Marines on Okinawa

A Pictorial Record

by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

y late March 1945, the pathway to invasion of the southernmost major island of the Japanese archipelago, Kyushu, had been secured but for one necessary stepping stone American forces required to support their tactical air effort leading up to and overhead the projected invasion of Japan, set to begin...
Book cover of Marines in the Marianas, Volume 1

Marines in the Marianas, Volume 1

Saipan. A Pictorial Record

by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

The American mid-1944 campaign in the Mariana Islands was an important strategic step that placed Tokyo and the rest of Japan’s industrial heartland within range of the new U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 very-long-range bombers. Once the islands were secured and the airfields were built, the army air...
Book cover of Aces In Combat
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009

Aces In CombatThe American Aces SpeakEric HammelAdding to his acclaimed in-the-cockpit series, The American Aces Speak, combat historian Eric Hammel comes through with yet another engrossing collection of first-person accounts by American fighter aces serving in World War II and the Korean War.As in...
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