World War Ii category: 7796 books
"The Good War"
An Oral History of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe).
“The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian....
When Books Went to War
The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Heartwarming.” — New York Times
“Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
“A readable, accessible addition to World War II literature [and] a book that will be enjoyed by lovers of books about books.”...
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
". . . the greatest war of all time told as it is best told - by the people who lived it." - The Washington Post. All first-person accounts of great events have their own fascination, but the editors of American Heritage have discovered that people writing about World War II seem to tell...
The Kennedys at War
1937-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
A dramatic, fascinating–and revisionist–narrative detailing how America’s first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically acclaimed author.
From breathless hagiographies to scandal-mongering exposés,...
The Story of World War II
Revised, expanded, and updated from the original t
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who...
G.I. Nightingales
The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
"Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every...
The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys
Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Trial of World War II.
As the tide of World War II turned, a hitherto unknown incident set a precedent for how we would bring wartime crimes to justice:...
The Devil's General
The Life of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz - The "Panzer Graf"
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the “Panzer Graf” (Armored Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leipzig, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross in the Great War. After fighting with the Freikorps...
A Short History of World War II
The Greatest Conflict in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
World War II was the greatest conflict in human history, involving over 100 million people serving in the forces of the Axis and the Allies and resulting in 50 to 70 million deaths. This book covers war in Europe, war in the Pacific and war across a number of other fronts between 1939 and 1945. - Features...
The Second World War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
A landmark reassessment of World War II that reconsiders the immense six-year conflict under the lens of the many separate campaigns fought in Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean
A definitive single-volume military history of World War II, The Second World War reveals the vastly diverse ways...
George Marshall
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A major historical biography of George C. Marshall—the general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of post-war Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—and the first to offer a complete picture of his life.
While...
The Rise of Germany, 1939–1941
The War in the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
An account of the early years of World War II based on extensive new research: “A genuinely fresh approach . . . exceptional” (The Wall Street Journal).
James Holland, one of the leading young historians of World War II, has spent over a decade conducting new research, interviewing survivors,...
by James Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
By June 1941, Germany’s war machine looked to be unstoppable. The Nazi blitzkrieg had taken Poland, France, and Holland with shocking speed. The Luftwaffe had bombed London, while German U-boats wrought havoc on Allied shipping on the Atlantic. And yet, as James Holland shows at the start of The...
The Allies
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order.
By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against...