World War Ii category: 7796 books
Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific
The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least 4,000 children born to indigenous mothers. Based on interviews conducted with many of these American-indigenous children and several of the...
by Robert P. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Lost among the great stories of World War II was the escape and rescue of hundreds of Allied airmen shot down over German-occupied Yugoslavia. Their target had been the vital Axis oil fields at Ploesti, Romania. Robert P. Moore and his B-17 crewmates were among the first wave of high altitude bombing...
Hunger and War
Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food; feeding the Red army; the medicalization...
Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies
FBI Counterespionage during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret war was well underway with the United States very much in the thick of it. While he fought on the home front to consolidate the FBI's intelligence gathering power, J. Edgar Hoover was conducting an all-out...
Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era
Celebrating Soft News
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant women’s page journalists who contributed to the women’s liberation movement and the journalism community. Previous versions of journalism history had reduced the role these women played at their...
The Admirals
Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.
Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These...
The Luck of the Draw: The Memoir of a World War II Submariner: From Savo Island to the Silent Service
The Memoir of a World War II Submariner: From Savo Island to the Silent Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
A coin flip likely saved the life of Kenneth C. Ruiz. It was August 1942 and he was fresh out of the U.S. Naval Academy. He and a classmate flipped a coin to see who would stand watch on the bridge of their heavy cruiser, the USS Vincennes, off Savo Island as the Marines were landing on Guadalcanal....
Beyond The Call
The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This inspiring true story of veteran Air Force bomber pilot Robert Trimble, who laid his life on the line to rescue World War II POWs on the Eastern Front.
Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-prisoners of war were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food,...
Roosevelt's Centurions
FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell
All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph...
Best Little Stories from World War II
More than 100 true stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war.
Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known...
The Venus Fixers
The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II.
In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a...
At All Costs
How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing...
Neptune's Inferno
The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal . . . [James D.] Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war.”—San Antonio Express-News
The Battle of Guadalcanal has...
Inferno
The World at War, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five...