Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
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Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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