Biography - Hammel, Eric M(axwell) (1946-): An article ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 3 Publication Date: 2002-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Aces Against Germany: The American Aces Speak
 Hammel begins his quadrilogy of aerial excitement: This is the book that sparked my interest in WW2 in the air. Hammel, an expert writer on the subject, leaves out each and every thing not essential. Consequently, the action comes through like in no [... more]
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Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United States Marines at ...
Book Description: With over 500 pictures, this photographic history fully documents the gruesome drama of the battle of Iwo Jima, arguably the hardest won and most memorable battle of the Marine Corps in World War II. Remarkable photographs, many never [... more]
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Carrier Clash: The Invasion of Guadalcanal and the ...
Meticulous Military History: Despite the book's title this is really a history of the Solomons campaing up to the battle of the Eastern Solomons, the first carrier to carrier clash of the campaign. It certainly has its center of gravity placed on the [... more]
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Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War
Book Description: The story of one of the iconic battles of military history is told for the first time in gut-level detail in this book. From the point of view of the men in the foxholes and tanks, outposts and command posts, Chosin offers a harrowing, [... more]
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Six Days in June: How Israel Won the 1967 Israeli-Arab War
Should have been better: This book is dedicated exclusively to the 1967 "Six-Day War," and I bought it with great anticipation. It's not bad, but it should have been much better. Hammel goes into details that enrich the story, but which, in too [... more]
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Carrier Strike: The Battle of the Santa Cruz ...
should be the definitive account of Santa Cruz: Eric Hammel's CARRIER STRIKE The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, should be the definitive work on this, the last of the 4 major carrier battles of WWII. As the second of two volumes about the Guadalcanal/ [... more]
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New Georgia, Bougainville, and Cape Gloucester: The U.S. ...
Book Description: After the 1st Marine Division defeated the Japanese on Guadalcanal late in 1942, there was still fighting to be done in and around the Solomons—including New Georgia, Bougainville, and Cape Gloucester—before reaching the [... more]
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Ambush Valley: The Story of a Marine Infantry ...
Very moving: An interesting first person format that carries you through the action of several days of serious fighting in the Con Thien area. My only issue was that Mr. Hammel did not site the name of the one of the casualties on September 7, 1967, the 2 [... more]
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Guadalcanal: The U.S. Marines in World War II: A ...
Book Description: On August 7, 1942, a scant nine months after Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps struck back against Japan on a small island half a world away: Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands. The stakes were high. The Japanese had been running [... more]
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Bloody Tarawa: The 2d Marine Division, November 20-23, 1943
Only a full-feature film can top this: After reading John Wukovits' One Square Mile of Hell I just had to find another book about Tarawa, and was fortunate to come across Bloody Tarawa. While I have not read the earlier edition of this book, I can only [... more]
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Ace!: A Marine Night-Fighter Pilot in World War II
ACE is a winner!: ACE is a good look at the world of WWII night pilots. It brings with it the Marine punch that delivers the grit and form to keep a reader enthralled. Yah...my book has the authors signiture in it so HA!: Having met Bruce Porter, I can [... more]
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