World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
This is a comprehensive compilation of military reports, documents, and academic research papers about the life and career of Omar Bradley, who served as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. These documents are professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.Contents:...
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain's Special Operations Executive
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s brainchild. But as A. R. B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain’s...
Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II
A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber " during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked...
Bloodstained Sands
U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
For the men who served in America's Amphibious Forces during World War II, the conflict was an unceasing series of D-Days. They were responsible for putting men ashore in more than 200 landings throughout the conflict, most against well-entrenched enemy positions. Bloodstained Sands: US Amphibious...
Dogfight over Tokyo
The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace
When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on...
by Bill O'Neal
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Texas made a remarkable contribution to the American war effort during World War II . Almost 830,000 Texans, including 12,000 women, donned uniforms, and more than 23,000 Texas fighting men died for their country. America's most decorated soldier, Lt. Audie Murphy, and most decorated sailor, submarine...
by Alan R. Perry, Flavio G. Conti
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
During World War II, the US government interned more than 1,200 captured Italian soldiers at the Letterkenny Army Ordnance Depot located near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. These troops collaborated with the United States in a collective effort to defeat the Axis powers. They formed the 321st Italian...
World War II Cincinnati
From the Front Lines to the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
World War II transformed Cincinnati from a relatively important but parochial midwestern city into a teeming bastion of military might. While thousands served in the nation's armed forces, others contributed to rationing programs, salvage drives, blackouts and war bond rallies. Scores of community-based...
MacArthur’s Air Force
American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command...
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against Britain's Bernard Montgomery and America's George Patton. Here, from award-winning military historian Stephen W. Sears, is the dramatic story of the generals, politicians, and soldiers who changed the course of the war.
by Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Lockheed P-38J Lightning aircraft was revolutionary, extremely innovative, thanks to double-girder fuselage, the two Allison V-engines with turbochargers within the tail beams and landing gear in tricycle.
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a single-engine fighter produced by the US to low-wing Bell...
Letters Home
From a World War Ii “Black Panther” Artilleryman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
During World War II, nothing connected a serviceman and his sweetheart back home like a handwritten letter. It was a link to hometo the life a soldier had left behind. In Letters Home, Philip M. Coons shares the almost daily letters that his father, Harold M. Coons, wrote to his mother, Margaret Richman...
Love and Sacrifice
A World War Brings Double Tragedy to an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Love and Sacrifice is the never-before-told true story of a father and son killed in World War II.
The reader follows the Reed family journey through the first half of the 20th century as they travel the country and globe in military service. Their stories are told through loving letters among...
World War II: The Resistance
The Fight for Freedom in Occupied Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Resistance movements during World War II in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Resistance movements during the Second World War. In 1939 and 1940, Hitler’s army was...