“In his much-awaited sequel to 76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa, New York Times bestselling author Larry Alexander takes hard case Marine Sergeant Pete Talbot and his Dog Company comrades from that blood-saturated atoll to the deadly fields, hills, and city streets of Saipan. Little do these Marines know it, but their presence will culminate in the largest and most desperate Japanese Banzai attack of World War II, codenamed Gyokusai or ‘Shatter the Jade.’ Scrupulous research and outstanding combat action—and characters you actually care about on both sides—puts the reader into the heart of the action.” —Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The Legend of Bagger Vance
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- Shattered Jade
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Read by Brian Nishii and John Pirhalla
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Release Date: 3/19/24
Formats: Retail CD Audiobook, MP3 CD, Digital Audiobook, Hardcover, eBook, Trade Paperback
From New York Times bestselling author Larry Alexander comes a gritty historical novel of World War II, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides of the firing line.
Tarawa was hell but Saipan is worse.
For Sergeant Pete “Hardball” Talbot, recently returned from being wounded on Tarawa seven months earlier, Saipan is just another battle as the United States leaps island to island toward an invasion of the Japanese homeland.
But the Japanese have learned, all too well, how to defend their islands, with carefully constructed and concealed bunkers and machine gun nests. Talbot and the dozen men of Second Squad have no idea they are running headlong into thirty-five thousand Japanese soldiers who have sworn to fight to the last man.
In vivid, startling detail, Shattered Jade explores the strategy and horror of battle in one of World War II’s most brutal conflicts and illuminates the extraordinary courage of ordinary young men.
- Shattered Jade
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Read by Brian Nishii and John Pirhalla
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Release Date: 3/19/24
Formats: Retail CD Audiobook, MP3 CD, Digital Audiobook, Hardcover, eBook, Trade Paperback
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- 76 Hours
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Read by John Pirhalla and Brian Nishii
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Release Date: 3/14/23
Formats: Retail CD Audiobook, MP3 CD, Digital Audiobook, Hardcover, eBook, Trade Paperback
The gripping historical novel of the invasion of Tarawa by US Marines in World War II, from bestselling author, journalist, and historian Larry Alexander.
The island of Tarawa, a tiny spit of sand out in the middle of the Pacific, teemed with five hundred pillboxes filled with artillery pieces and highly motivated Japanese soldiers. Their commanding officer encouraged his troops, saying, “It would take one million men one hundred years” to conquer Tarawa. They were convinced that the Americans would be slaughtered before they ever got ashore.
Private Pete “Hardball” Talbot was one of the US Marines tasked with taking the island. A cocky, tough street kid from Philadelphia, Pete joined up to escape his abusive father. In his mind, nothing the Japanese could throw at him could be as bad as what his father dished out. He was angry, and more than willing to take it out on the enemy. But once he climbed over the side and into the landing craft, and once the Japanese artillery and machine guns opened up in defense of the island, Pete knew this was going to be different. It would take all his training, and all his street smarts to stay alive while those around him got blown to bits.
Despite Japanese predictions, it took the United States Marines seventy-six hours to take Tarawa. It was a walk in the park … if the park were in the middle of hell itself.
- 76 Hours
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Read by John Pirhalla and Brian Nishii
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Release Date: 1/01/23
Formats: Retail CD Audiobook, MP3 CD, Digital Audiobook, Hardcover, eBook, Trade Paperback