L Gordon: 212 books
Peleliu 1944
The forgotten corner of hell
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Equalling Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in scale and ferocity, the battle for Peleliu has long been regarded as the Pacific War's "forgotten battle†?, and perhaps one that should never have been fought. A massive carrier-based attack some weeks before the invasion destroyed all aircraft and...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In 1964 Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, activated a joint unconventional task force known as the Studies and Observation Group-MACV-SOG. As a cover its mission was to conduct analysis of lessons learned in combat by all branches of service. SOG's real mission was to conduct covert strategic...
Battery Park City
Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing...
Hell in the Pacific
The Battle for Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The battle of Iwo Jima saw one hundred thousand men fighting over a tiny volcanic island of just 8 square miles. The island was of major strategic importance to the US Air Force. However, it was also of supreme importance to the 20,000 Japanese troops who were deeply entrenched in the island when...
Carlson’s Marine Raiders
Makin Island 1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
On August 17–18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific. This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to...
US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman
Guadalcanal 1942–43
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal in many ways came to typify the island-hopping war in the Pacific. This book not only explores the differing tactics and equipment used by the two combatants but also shows how the challenges of fighting in inhospitable...
US Special Warfare Units in the Pacific Theater 1941–45
Scouts, Raiders, Rangers and Reconnaissance Units
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The bitter fighting in the Pacific Theater required new forms of warfare, and the gathering of detailed intelligence information on the remote and varied islands and their determined defenders. As a result, new scout, raider and reconnaissance units were formed – the pioneers of today's special...
The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid
The Philippines 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
On the southwest shore of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines stood the Los Banos Internment Camp. Held within were 2,147 starving POWs, surrounded by thousands of Japanese troops. As the desperate battle for Manila raged, only 130 Paratroopers could be spared for the rescue operation. Supported by Alamo...
Okinawa 1945
The last battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark days of humiliating defeat were far behind the...
Japanese Army in World War II
The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942–43
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
The 1941 Japanese Pacific onslaught saw the defeat of Allied forces on all fronts, with the Philippines, Netherlands East Indies, and Commonwealth possessions falling under their control. During 1942-43, the Japanese consolidated their gains and redeployed forces in an attempt to break the Southern...
Japanese Army in World War II
Conquest of the Pacific 1941–42
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
The Japanese conquest of the Pacific comprised of a complex series of widely scattered operations; their intent was to neutralize American, Commonwealth, and Dutch forces, seize regions rich in economic resources, and secure an outer defense line for their empire. Although their conquest was successful,...
The Good Man
The Civil War's "Christian General" and His Fight for Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Gen.O.O. Howard, the white man from Maine for whom Howard University, the leading university for African-Americans, was named, was W.T. Sherman's principal deputy in the march across the South and later took charge of the federal government's Reconstruction efforts. Though Reconstruction failed, Howard...
Khe Sanh 1967–68
Marines battle for Vietnam’s vital hilltop base
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Khe Sanh was a small village in northwest South Vietnam that sat astride key North Vietnamese infiltration routes. In September 1966 a Marine battalion deployed into the area. Action gradually increased as the NVA attempted to destroy Free World Forces bases, and the siege of Khe Sanh proper began...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book reveals the evolving US, Viet Cong and NVA tactics at battalion level and below throughout the Vietnam War. Beginning with a description of the terrain, climate and the unique nature of operations in this theatre of war, the author, a Vietnam veteran himself, goes on to explain how unit...