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Clean Sweep - VIII Fighter Command Against the Luftwaffe, 1942-45 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver (Contribution by)
$66.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A vivid narrative history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi Germany. On August 7, 1942, two events of major military importance occurred on separate sides of the planet. In the Sou ...Show more
Going Downtown - The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961-75 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally end ...Show more
Going Downtown - The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961-75 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally end ...Show more
Gothic Line 1944-45 - The USAAF Starves Out the German Army by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver; Anastasios Polychronis (Illustrator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
This is the history of how the mighty Gothic Line was defeated by American air power, in one of the most pivotal but least-known air campaigns of World War II. By late 1944, the Italian Campaign was secondary to the campaigns in France, and Allied forces were not strong enough to break the Germans' mig ...Show more
I Will Run Wild - The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military History
This was the reaction of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy when he received orders in November 1941 to attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. For the next five months and 27 days, he kept his word as the Japanese fleet swept across th ...Show more
Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$42.99 NZD
Category: History
On 27 October 1942, four "Long Lance" torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war ...Show more
Pacific Thunder - The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$19.99 NZD
Category: Military History
On October 27 1942, four "Long Lance" torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war ...Show more
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club - Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
The "Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club" was the tongue-in-cheek nickname of the US Seventh Fleet that was stationed off the coast of Vietnam and this book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975. On August 2, 1964, the USSMaddox became embroiled in the infamous Gulf ...Show more
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club - Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
On August 2, 1964, USS Maddox became embroiled in the infamous Gulf of Tonkin Incident that led directly to America's increased involvement in the Vietnam War. Having served as a 20-year-old member of Commander Patrol Forces Seventh Fleet which had operational control over Maddox and Turner Joy, author ...Show more
Tidal Wave "From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay" by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver; Rear Admiral Doniphan P. Shelton (Foreword by)
$42.99 NZD
Category: History
Now publishing in paperback, this is vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome opposition from new and terrifying sources, notably the suicidal Japanese airmen: the kamikaze.The United States Navy wo ...Show more
Under the Southern Cross - The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A vivid narrative history of the Solomons campaign of World War II, one of the key turning points in the U.S. Navy's campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific. If the Battle of Midway, fought in June 1942, stopped further Japanese expansion in the Pacific, it was the Battle of Guadalcanal and the ...Show more
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