World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Cory Peyton Graff, Patrick Thomas Devine
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The cities of Los Angeles and San Diego were boomtowns during World War II. California aviation companies designed many of the greatest combat aircraft of the era, and bustling armies of women and men helped quickly churn them out by the thousands. An astounding 41 percent of all US warplanes came...
The Washington War
FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A Team of Rivals for World War II—the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, D.C., to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific.
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The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was...
Taste of War
World War II and the Battle for Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
A New York Times Notable Book of 2012
Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions...
Splinter Fleet
The Wooden Subchasers of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these expendable”...
by Dr Alexander Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Soviet Navy that faced the German onslaught in 1941 boasted a mixture of modern warships, often built with foreign technical assistance, and antiquated warships from the Tsarist era that were modernised for the conflict.
Some Soviet naval vessels saw limited involvement in the war against...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study analyzes the historical debate between the United States Army (USA) and United States Air Force over the issue of close air support (CAS). Specifically, this study examines four...
by Andrew Webb
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
World War II in Photographs is an innovative visual account of the major events of the greatest conflict of the twentieth century, the Second World War. Featuring over 250 original images of warfare in all its forms, the book protrays the signiicant actions and people of the years 1939-1945. From Dunkirk...
by Frank Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
The 1937 Rape of Nanjing has become a symbol of Japanese violence during the Second World War, but it was not the only event during which the Japanese used extreme force. This thought-provoking book analyzes Japan's actions during the war, without blaming Japan, helping readers understand what led...
Islands of the Damned
A Marine at War in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
**A remarkable eyewitness account of the most brutal combat of the Pacific War, from Peleliu to Okinawa, this is the true story of R.V. Burgin, the real-life World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific.
“Read his story and marvel at the man...and those like him.”—Tom...
Ernie Pyles War
America's Eyewitness to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1999
When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly as great as the loss of the wartime president.
If...
The Deserters
A Hidden History of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
**“Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.” --**The Boston Globe
A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War....
Terrible Terry Allen
Combat General of World War II - The Life of an American Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Terry de la Mesa Allen’s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen as he failed out of West Point—twice—ultimately gaining his commission through Catholic...
There's a War to Be Won
The United States Army in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
THERE'S A WAR TO BE WON is the landmark story of one of the greatest armies in history, a conscript force of amateur soldiers who had an unparalleled record of combat success. Here -- for the first time in one volume -- is the chronicle of the United States Army's dramatic mobilization and stunning...
by Nathaniel Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In World War II, the crises leading up to the war, and the battles at sea, on land and in the air are explored. Pages focus on key events, such as: the German invasion of Poland; the Battle of Britain; the attack on Pearl Harbor; and the destruction of Hiroshima.