World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States military rarely conducts unilateral actions. Normally, it operates with coalition partners. This has been true for over a century and there is little indication that it will...
Anthropological Intelligence
The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to advance the war effort. The range of their war-related work was extraordinary. They helped gather military intelligence, pinpointed possible...
America's Captives
Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured. In this first comprehensive...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. It has been prepared as part of the project of the American Battle Monuments Commission to commemorate in a complete and lasting manner the accomplishments and services of the American forces...
Hamtramck
The World War II Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
With a population made up overwhelmingly of Polish immigrants and descendents of Poles, Hamtramck was especially hardhit by the impact of World War II. Most of the city�s residents had family contacts with the old country. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Hamtramckans reacted with...
by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based—but not just the “great” people. Biographies of “average” individuals, who exist...
by Michael Dilley
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The array of new technologies that came on the scene in the early 20th century resulted in widely varied new forms of military special operations once civilization embarked on its greatest war. Suddenly, fighting men could be delivered by parachute, submarine, glider, jeeps, and fast amphibious craft...
by Neil A. Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The 1930s were dominated by economic collapse, stagnation, and mass unemployment. This crisis enabled the Democrats to recapture the White House and embark upon a period of reform unsurpassed until the 1960s. Roosevelt's New Deal laid the foundations of a welfare system that was further consolidated...
The Liberty Ships of World War II
A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards,...
Divided Lenses
Screen Memories of War in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events...
Beyond the Call of Duty
Army Flight Nursing in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
At the height of World War II, five hundred Army flight nurses served with the Army Air Forces as members of thirty-one medical air evacuation squadrons located throughout the world on both the European and Pacific fronts. Their work was not insignificant—over one million patients were evacuated...
Baseball and the Bottom Line in World War II
Gunning for Profits on the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II? The sport, like many nonessential industries, struggled to find its place in society during a time of war. The men who ran the game faced government interference and manpower shortages that threatened to shut down their businesses...
by Dewaine A. Speaks, Ray Clift
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Like every other red-blooded American, East Tennessee residents did all they could to help end World War II. Locals like "Petie" Siler signed up for service, despite having fought in World War I. Oak Ridge residents worked expeditiously on the Manhattan Project, gathering uranium-235 to fuel the first...
Hidden Warships
Finding World War II's Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
As close as you can get to the world's warship wrecks without getting your feet wet Sunk by enemy fire, scuttled, or run aground, the number of World War II-era battleships, cruisers, submarines, and other warships that ended their service on the bottom of the world's oceans and seas is enormous....