Frank Carlson Library

American merchant Captain Jeremiah Macy Hammond's trading empire faces pirates, violent storms, and illness as it forges new paths across the Pacific. There he meets Lady Yee, the Silver Lotus, daughter of a wealthy Cantonese merchant family.

"Mary Wishram, an orphaned Yakima tribal member, aches for her brother who suffers in a POW camp in the Philippine Islands and her Japanese friends who languish in a relocation center. Determined to end the war by any means necessary, she employs her language skills to become a spy. Leaving Camp Pendleton for the South Pacific, she faces escalating threats of peril to help bring her loved ones home. John Painted Horse, a proud Navajo, struggles with...

As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japan's empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself--the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle will feature some of the most...

A thriller on a married couple of doctors on a boat, dispensing medical care to islanders in the Pacific. When the wife and their daughter are abducted by the wounded captain of a tanker engaged in smuggling, the husband hires a force of Chinese gangsters and mounts a rescue. A first novel.

When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.

"Relive World War Two, as it happened in the East, through the eyes of the servicemen and civilians on both sides of the conflict. Follow the invasion of Manchuria by japan in 1937, right through to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Witness the end of the British Empire, the rise and fall of Japan and destruction the likes of which the world must never know again." -- Back cover.