{"product_id":"9781927527542","title":"Enemy Offshore!: Japan's Secret War on North America's West Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn June 20, 1942, the lighthouse at Estevan Point on Vancouver Island was shelled by the Japanese submarine I-26. It was the first enemy attack on Canadian soil since the War of 1812. But this was only one incident in the incredible and little-known Japanese campaign to terrorize North America’s west coast and mount an invasion through the Aleutian Islands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnemy Offshore\u003c\/i\u003e is a dramatic, comprehensive narrative of the events that unfolded as Japan brought the Second World War to North American shores. Submarines—Japan’s formidable I-boats—stalked the West Coast, attacking ships and shore stations. A Japanese aircraft-carrier force attacked Alaska twice, grabbing a footing in North America and launching a bloody conflict in the Aleutians. The Japanese bombed an Oregon forest in an eccentric plan to start mass fires and desperately launched thousands of bomb-laden balloons against Canada and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are also the stories of ordinary citizens—fishermen, Natives and wilderness warriors who allied with the military in the extraordinary but largely unknown war on the West Coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151618621680,"sku":"9781927527542","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927527542_p0.jpg?v=1763636540","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927527542","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}