World War Ii category: 7796 books
Weller's War
A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Walter Cronkite called him “one of our best war correspondents.” His stories from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific during World War II won him the Pulitzer Prize. Now, George Weller is immortalized in a collection of fearless, intrepid dispatches that crisscross a shattered globe. Edited...
by Donald Nijboer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
More than half of the U.S.’s aircraft losses in Europe in World War II were due to German antiaircraft artillery, and many of the American aircraft shot down by Luftwaffe fighters had first been driven out of formation by flak and made easy prey for the fighters. A world away in the Pacific, American...
World War II Submarines: Stunning World War 2 Submarine Stories And Warfare From The Depths Of The Ocean
World War 2 Submarines, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
War is perhaps that one occurrence that has held captive the attention of man for eons after it is over. This is quite natural as well, for the repercussions of war are such that the aftershocks are felt long after the last bomb was dropped and the last cannon boomed.
We as human beings find...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the airpower tenet of centralized control, which US Air Force doctrine has traditionally upheld as the foundation for organizing, planning, and executing joint air operations....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. General Lyman L. Lemnitzer and General Charles H. Bonesteel III illustrate the need for the Army to better understand and value manager leadership at the same level as heroism on the battlefield....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This book examines the German air force (GAF) monograph project, also known as the Karlsruhe project, through which the US Air Force employed former Luftwaffe generals to record the history...
Flying against Fate
Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as...
Russian World War II Dictionary
A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions and Soldiers' Slang
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world. The frontline veterans' reminiscences occupy a prominent place among most important...
Eyewitness to World War II
Unforgettable Stories From History's Greatest Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This elegant narrative edition of Neil Kagan's best-selling Eyewitness to World War II offers incredible first-person stories and amazing moments of heroism, providing new context and perspective on history's greatest conflict.
The unforgettable story of World War II is told through the words...
The Phoney Victory
The World War II Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the `Good War'. Whilst not...
by Deborah Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Discover how a small conflict between a few countries became one of the biggest wars in history. From 1939 to 1945, our resource captures the mood felt around the world during this time of war. Start by asking, why do we remember World War II? Find out how the facts of this war sent shock waves throughout...
Chasing Ghosts
A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn’t realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man—and herself—and the effect of his military...
Ghosts of World War II
NAS Banana River
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
SEA STORIES AND WAR DIARIES FROM A WORLD WAR II NAVY BASE
It was nothing more than a thin strip of land bordered by an ocean and a landlocked salt river. Its inhabitants were hoards of sand flies and mosquitoes. In time, it probably would have been taken over by developers, and become another...
by John Norris
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Mortars were used throughout the Second World War by all armies and in all theatres. Although a very simple weapon they could greatly enhance the firepower of infantry formations, giving them their own mobile artillery arm. They repeatedly proved their worth in both offensive and defensive situations,...