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Top 10 Best "1942" Books

#10

Flying Tigers

Daniel Ford

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Whirlwind

Barrett Tillman

1942

Whirlwind

WHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan—the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, award-winning historian Barrett Tillman recounts the saga from the perspectives of American and British aircrews who flew unprecedented missions overthousands of miles of ocean, as well as of the generalsand admirals who commanded them.

Whether describing the experiences of bomber crews based in China or the Marianas, fighter pilotson Iwo Jima, or carrier aviators at sea, Tillman provides vivid details of the lives of the fliers and their support personnel. Whirlwind takes readers into the cockpits and gun turrets of the mighty B-29 Superfortress, the largest bomber built up to that time. Tillman dramatically re-creates the sweep of wartime emotions that crews endured on fifteen-hour missions, grappling with the extreme tedium of cramped spaces and with adrenaline spikes in flak-studded skies, knowing that a b...

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 #9

1942

Winston Groom

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#8

US Destroyers 1942-45

Dave McComb
Paul Wright

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#7

1942

Robert Conroy

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#6

Fire and Fury

Randall Hansen

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#5

1942

Robert Conroy

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#4

Red Inferno

Robert Conroy

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#3

Fortress Rabaul

Bruce Gamble

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#2

Stalingrad

Antony Beevor

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Whirlwind

The first book to fully cover the air war against Japan, Whirlwind examines the human drama of the most important strategic bombing campaign in history.

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Whirlwind

Barrett Tillman

1942
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1945

Robert Conroy

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