World War Ii category: 7796 books
The Emperor's Codes
The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers Who Turned the Tide of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this gripping, previously untold story from World War II, Michael Smith examines how code breakers cracked Japan’s secret codes and won the war in the Pacific. He also takes the reader step by step through the process, explaining exactly how the code breakers went about their daunting task-made...
The Blitzkrieg Myth
How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A bold reinterpretation of some of the most decisive battles of World War II, showing that the outcomes had less to do with popular new technology than old–fashioned, on–the–ground warfare.
The military myths of World War II were based on the assumption that the new technology of the...
by Zig Boroughs
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Summary of The 508th Connection by Zig Boroughs When I arrived home after my army discharge in 1945, the challenges of adult civilian life excited me tremendously. I passionately anticipated living as a husband and father, no longer separated by the Atlantic Ocean and a dangerous war from my wife...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of Pacific forces in World War II, viewed the Battle of the Bismarck Sea as a disaster for the Japanese and a triumph for the Allies. In that great air-sea confrontation, U.S. and Australian air forces proved that air power could be decisive in preventing the resupply...
Marshall and His Generals
U.S. Army Commanders in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, faced the daunting task not only of overseeing two theaters of a global conflict but also of selecting the best generals to carry out American grand strategy. Marshall and His Generals is the first and only book to focus...
Major General Maurice Rose
World War II's Greatest Forgotten Commander
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "Spearhead" division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation. This, the first and only biography of this important...
Jump Commander In Combat With The 505th And 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division In World War II
In Combat with the 505th and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
A selection of the Military Book ClubCol. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding the 2d and 1st Battalions, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 508 PIR, of the 82nd Airborne Division....
Once Upon a Time in War
The 99th Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most dramatic,...
South Pacific Cauldron
World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The war in the South Pacific in its entirety has remained remarkably neglected by historians. This is the first comprehensive narrative history covering all land, sea and air operations in the theater to the end of World War II.While Guadalcanal is familiar to most Americans and the Kokoda Trail is well...
Between Two Evils: The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp
The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
This vivid memoir describes the author's experiences as young girl in Poland, forced to flee to Warsaw after the Nazi bombing of Brest at the outbreak of World War II. She recounts the realities of life in occupied Poland, including the arrest by the Gestapo of her father and his death soon after...
The Ariadne Objective
The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The incredible true story of the World War II spies, including Patrick Leigh Fermor and John Pendlebury, who fought to save Crete and block Hitler's march to the East.
In the bleakest years of World War II, when it appeared that nothing could slow the German army, Hitler set his sights on the...
The Fight in the Clouds
The Extraordinary Combat Experience of P-51 Mustang Pilots During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
This is as close as you’ll get to a World War II–era P-51 Mustang without flying one yourself.
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang first started appearing in real numbers in 1943, at the climax of the Allied campaign in World War II. Able to fly long ranges, it was the perfect escort,...
by Kevin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The heroic, dramatic, and sometimes tragic history of how the US 8th Air Force changed the course of World War II.
The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February—targeting German aircraft production...
The Ghosts of Hero Street
How One Small Mexican-American Community Gave So Much in World War II and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
They came from one street in Silvis, Illinois, but death found them in many places . . .
. . .in a distant jungle, a frozen forest, and trapped in the flaming wreckage of a bomber blown from the sky. One died going over a fence during the greatest paratrooper assault in history. Another fell...