pacific ocean

Reassesses U.S. and Japanese strategy and offers interpretations of the Pacific War.

An account of the United States Intelligence deciphering of Japanese codes even before Pearl Harbor based on newly released or declassified documents.

Describes the role of American submarines during World War II as they patrolled the Pacific Ocean in deadly wolf packs.

Tells the story of the "USS Indianapolis," a battle cruiser torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, shortly after delivering parts of the atom bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima; and discusses the heroic struggles of sailors who survived the blast to stay alive in the sea for nearly five days before help arrived.

The author chronicles his and his wife's nine desperate weeks adrift in the Pacific on a six-foot raft, twelve hundred miles from land with little food and surrounded by sharks, after their intended circumnavigation of the globe was cut short by a whale attack upon their sloop.

Details the June 1942 battle between the Japanese and the Americans which decided the control of the Pacific.

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the author's adult book "In the Heart of the Sea.".