World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication examines the history of close air support. The issue of close air support by the United States Air Force in support of, primarily, the United States Army has been fractious for years. Air commanders...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication examines in detail the development and employment of land-based air power in maritime operations, through a series of case studies spanning a period of more than fifty years. Although the emphasis...
Not in Vain
A Rifleman Remembers World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Growing up in a small college town in central Mississippi in the 1930s, Leon C. Standifer knew little of the trauma of war. But by the time he was nineteen, World War II had made war a reality for him. Standifer volunteered for and was accepted by a special army program that would send him to college...
by Robert W. Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
From the deadly shores of North Africa to the invasion of Sicily to the fierce jungle hell of the Pacific, the contribution of the World War II Ranger Battalions far outweighed their numbers. They were ordinary men on an extraordinary mission, experiencing the full measure of the fear, exhaustion,...
Ben Macintyre's World War II Espionage Files
Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, two thrilling accounts of World War II espionage, are available together as an ebook—with an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Double Cross.
AGENT ZIGZAG • “Wildly improbably but entirely true . . . [a] compellingly cinematic spy thriller...
American Warlords
How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan W. Jordan—author of Brothers, Rivals, Victors—comes the intimate true story of President Franklin Roosevelt’s inner circle of military leadership, the team of rivals who shaped World War II and America.
“Superbly written, well researched,...
Twenty-Five Yards of War
The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men inWorld War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
From the sinking decks of a navy cruiser to the cockpit of a doomed B-25 bomber, Ronald J. Drez takes us to the front lines of World War II.
Through Drez's gripping narrative style, we meet twelve men, all ordinary soldiers, and learn what the war was like through their eyes, experiencing their...
Donovan's Devils
OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines—Europe, World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The stirring, little-known story of the forerunners to today's Special Forces.
The OSS-Office of Strategic Services-created under the command of William Donovan, has been celebrated for its cloak-and-dagger operations during World War II and as the precursor of the CIA. As the "Oh So Social,"...
A Call to Arms
Mobilizing America for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
The first Army Air Corps navigational class at Miami University graduated in November 1940. In this book, Colonel Whitcomb follows these first celestial navigators through their World War II trials. Twenty-five personal stories paint the stories of these men as they fought—combining the ancient...
The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy
And Other Tales from Home-Front America in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer
"A first-class historian."
-The Wall Street Journal
Top Secret Tales of World War II
"A book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire. If there were a genre for cozy nonfiction, this would be the template."
-Publishers...
by John W. Dower
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2000
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
Drawing on a vast...
Cautious Crusade
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing morale, or calls for a negotiated...
Masters of the Air
America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War Two, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian Donald Miller and soon to be a major HBO series.
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story...