James D. Hornfischer, Author . Bantam $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-80257-3
One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of Flags of Our Fathers,
creating a microcosm of the war's American Navy destroyers. Hornfischer, a writer and literary agent in Austin, Tex.,...
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James D. Hornfischer, Author . Bantam $26 (530p) ISBN 978-0-553-80390-7
This engrossing WWII epic by Hornfischer (The
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
) recounts the exploits of the Houston
, mainstay of the skimpy Allied fleet opposing the Japanese onslaught in the war's early days, until her sinking in a...
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James D. Hornfischer, Bantam, $28 (544p) ISBN 978-0-553-80670-0
Hornfischer (Ship of Ghosts) understands the human dynamics of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific war as well as any student of the subject. Here he focuses on the period when the Navy underwent its sternest test. The struggle for Guadalcanal, he writes,...
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James D. Hornfischer. Bantam, $36 (480p) ISBN 978-0-3991-7864-1
This excellent naval history elucidates how the atomic bomb and nuclear power shaped the geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Historian and literary agent Hornfischer (The Fleet at Flood Tide), who died in 2021, unearths...
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James D. Hornfischer, Doug Murray, and Steven Sanders. Dead Reckoning, $29.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-68247-338-2
Solid on its facts but falling short of the energy and vivacity a war comic demands, this graphic adaptation of Hornfischer’s 2004 prose account of WWII’s Battle of Samar disappoints. Facing off against the powerful Japanese Pacific navy in October...
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