Edwin Palmer Hoyt

The Tragic Venus

Marilyn

Glory of Solomons

The blazing, hour-by-hour account of the bloodiest sea battle of World War II from acclaimed author Edwin P. Hoyt. By October, 1944, the Japanese Navy was driven to take a desperate action: to surprise the American forces at Leyte Gulf in the South Pacific. Special action photo edition.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

The Kamikazes

The Bloody Road to Panmunjom

The story of the Inchon landing during the Korean War, and the last stroke of Douglas MacArthur's career, including information about the decision making process as the American and South Korean troops invaded North Korea and pushed to the Yalu River, dividing North Korea and China.

On to the Yalu

The Glory of the Solomons

Lt. Stephen Decatur, U.S.N., was the captain of one of two small American ships anchored off the seaport city of Tripoli on a February night in 1804. For years, the Barbary Pirates had been based here, a plague to shipping. Now they had captured an American frigate, imprisoned her captain, and planned to use the ship against the Americans! But Decatur had planned well for this mission. Here is the true, exciting and dramatic story of Decatur's exploits that cold winter night -- exploits which Lord Nelson called the most daring of the Barbary War. No one thought he could achieve his goals and live to fight again ...

Hellfire in Tripoli

The Battle of the Coral Sea

Blue Skies and Blood

Edwin Hoyt's thoroughly researched tome is the first ever to chronicle the Soviet-German war as seen through Stalin's eyes.

Tragedy and Triumph, 1941-1945

Stalin's War

Yamamoto is an exhaustively researched and compelling biography of the Japanese Naval genius and war hero Isoroku Yamamoto, the Architect of the Pacific War. Drawing on a wealth of untapped Japanese sources, historian Edwin P. Hoyt demonstrates both his flair for dramatic battle accounts and his penetrating eye for personal and political motivation. He offers a thorough and engaging portrait of Admiral Yamamoto and, from that vantage point, provides a revealing new view of the events of World War II. Yamamoto details his life from his youth in Nagaoka and his early military successes, to the dynamic leader's orchestration of the infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, his subsequent naval victories, and his eventual assassination by American fighter planes in the Solomon Islands at the order of President Roosevelt himself.

The Man Who Planned the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Yamamoto

Guadalcanal is the full story of the South Pacific campaign that turned the tide of the war. Guadalcanal was America's first defeat of the highly vaunted Japanese military machine that provided the opening for eventual American success in the Pacific.

Guadalcanal

In this exciting work, an eminent authority on naval history offers a definitive account of one of the most critical naval battles of World War II in the Pacific.

This biography of Japanese army general and dictatorial prime minister Hideki Tojo covers his early, easy World War II victories, his subsequent crushing defeats, and his trial and execution as a war criminal.

Tojo Against the World

Warlord

Alexander Woollcott: the Man who Came to Dinner

The U-Boat Wars

Written in the fast-paced, dramatic style Hoyt's readers expect is this skillful rendering of a mesmerizing period of military history, and a new portrait of the man who dominated an era. 32 photos.

Hitler's War

This is the vivid story of men at all levels-from the captain to the seamen-and the Japanese they faced in battle, first at the Marianas in June 1944 and finally on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In that engagement, the Navy bloodied the Japanese sorely, but at a grim price: The Gambier Bay became the only U.S. aircraft carrier in World War II to be sunk by naval gunfire. The story of the Gambier Bay is a tale of uncommon courage under fire.

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