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Hardcover:
9780316208093 | Large print edition (Little Brown & Co, June 5, 2012), cover price $29.99
9780316185363 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, May 8, 2012), cover price $27.99
Paperback:
9780316185370 | Back Bay Books, May 27, 2014, cover price $8.00
9780316185387 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, May 7, 2013), cover price $16.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781611134162 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, May 22, 2012), cover price $29.98
With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.Neptune’s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands, America’s first concerted offensive against the Imperial Japanese juggernaut and the true turning point of the Pacific conflict. This grim, protracted campaign has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice—three sailors died at sea for every man lost ashore—Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound.” Here, in brilliant cinematic detail, are the seven major naval actions that began in August of 1942, a time when the war seemed unwinnable and America fought on a shoestring, with the outcome always in doubt. But at Guadalcanal the U.S. proved it had the implacable will to match the Imperial war machine blow for violent blow. Working from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and newly available documents, Hornfischer paints a vivid picture of the officers and enlisted men who took on the Japanese in America’s hour of need: Vice Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, who took command of the faltering South Pacific Area from his aloof, overwhelmed predecessor and became a national hero; the brilliant Rear Admiral Norman Scott, who died even as he showed his command how to fight and win; Rear Admiral Daniel Callaghan, the folksy and genteel “Uncle Dan,” lost in the strobe-lit chaos of his burning flagship; Rear Admiral Willis Lee, who took vengeance two nights later in a legendary showdown with the Japanese battleship Kirishima; the five Sullivan brothers, all killed in the shocking destruction of the Juneau; and many others, all vividly brought to life.The first major work on this essential subject in almost two decades, Neptune’s Inferno does what all great battle narratives do: It cuts through the smoke and fog to tell the gripping human stories behind the momentous events and critical decisions that altered the course of history and shaped so many lives. This is a thrilling achievement from a master historian at the very top of his game.From the Hardcover edition.
Hardcover:
9780553806700 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 25, 2011, cover price $30.00
Paperback:
9780553385120 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, March 6, 2012, cover price $20.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9780307881397 | Unabridged edition (Random House, January 25, 2011), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D.
Describes the loss of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston in the Dutch East Indies during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slaves on Japan's brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780553803907 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 31, 2006, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Describes the loss of the cruiser USS Houston during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slaves on Japan's brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway.
Paperback:
9780553384505 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 28, 2007), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Describes the loss of the cruiser U.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739311431 | Abridged edition (Random House, October 31, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the loss of the cruiser U.
Based on eyewitness accounts, declassified Navy documents, and interviews and correspondence with veterans, this epic account chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.
Hardcover:
9780375432958 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, February 1, 2004), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.
9780553802573 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739309087 | Abridged edition (Random House, February 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780739309070 | Abridged edition (Random House, January 1, 2004), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.
Based on eyewitness accounts, declassified Navy documents, and interviews and correspondence with veterans, this epic account chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific. Reprint. 37,500 first printing.
Paperback:
9780553381481, titled "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War Ii Story Of The U.s. Navy's Finest Hour" | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, March 29, 2005), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Based on eyewitness accounts, declassified Navy documents, and interviews and correspondence with veterans, this epic account chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.
Paperback:
9780312156299 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: From the author of the acclaimed Right Thinking comes a collection of witty quotes from liberals throughout history, from Aristophanes to John F.
Paperback:
9780671535599 | Pocket Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Collects quotes on conservatism by such authors as Rush Limbaugh, Plutarch, Henry David Thoreau, Newt Gingrich, and Winston Churchill
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