Surrender Bay

Once childhood friends, Samantha and Landon are now separated by distance and secrets. Will Samantha's return to Nantucket bring her the peace she longs for?Samantha Owens' estranged stepfather has di

Once childhood friends, Samantha and Landon are now separated by distance and secrets. Will Samantha's return to Nantucket bring her the peace she longs for?Samantha Owen's estranged stepfather has d

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two--"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come." "Nimitz at War is the greatest biography yet written about the greatest admiral in American history." - Ian Toll Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a "desk admiral," more suited to running a bureaucracy than a theater of war. Yet FDR's selection proved nothing less than inspired. From the precarious early months of the war after December 7th, 1941 to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay nearly four years later, Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powe

Over several years, author Chris Hulme embarked on a personal travel odyssey across the battlefields of the Second World War in the Pacific. In The Bataan Death March to MacArthur’s Return, he journeys through the Philippines – from the rain-swept streets of Manila to the wreck-strewn waters of Leyte Gulf – blending gripping history with personal exploration. The author begins by walking in the footsteps of those who endured the harrowing three-month siege of Bataan, where American and Filipino forces, cut off from supplies and reinforcements, made their desperate last stand against overwhelming Japanese troops.That valiant struggle culminated in the largest surrender of U.S. Army forces in history and the infamous Bataan Death March, marked today by 136 white concrete obelisks along the 65-mile route of suffering. Taking a boat across Manila Bay, Hulme explores the island fortress of Corregidor, where General Jonathan Wainwright’s forces held out for another month after Bataan’s fall.

From Shadow Warrior?to hostage Despite her sweet nature, Navy medic Bay Thorn's will is unbreakable. It has earned her not only the respect of her team, but also the love of Navy SEAL Gabe Griffin. An

Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant