World War Ii category: 7796 books
Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1989
Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode in The New York Times Book Review...
Death in the Baltic
The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported.
January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour...
Forged in War
Roosevelt, Churchill, And The Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
World War II created the union between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, molding it from start to finish, while the partnership itself shaped many of the most significant moments of the war and the peace that followed. Their connection was truly forged in war.
Roosevelt and Churchill...
Not Even a Number
Surviving Larger C - Auschwitz II - Birkenau
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Surviving Auschwitz II-Birkeneu was going to take more than prayer, more than luck...it was going to take a will to live, a desire to fight and a need keep a promise. Rifcha and her family were living normal, happy lives. There was school, work, family dinners, outings and vacations. That was until...
Secret Channel to Berlin
The Masson-Schellenberg Connection and Swiss Intelligence in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
This book focuses on the delicate connection between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the German Chief of Espionage, SS General Walter Schellenberg. The author had access to hitherto inaccessible documents, including newly discovered material in American archives, to fully...
Target Switzerland
Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
"In the future it will be impossible to authoritatively discuss Switzerland during the dark years without having read Halbrook."--Dr. Jurg Stussi-Lauterburg, author of Federalism and Freedom
In 1943, Adolf Hitler proclaimed that "all the rubbish of small nations still existing...
by U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
All Americans are familiar with the day that will live in infamy. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese conducted a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning), carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy against...
How to Become a Spy
The World War II SOE Training Manual
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
One of the most comprehensive spy training courses used during WWII by British Special Operations Executive, also known as “Churchill’s Secret Army.”
During World War II, training in the black arts of covert operation was vital preparation for the “ungentlemanly warfare” waged by the...
by Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level sabotage and assassinations, the groups continued to grow...
by Gerald Pawle
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
"This was a secret war, whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public … No such warfare had ever been waged by mortal men."
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Second World War, Vol. II
by Marc Milner
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
A major reinterpretation of the most important military campaign of World War II World War II was only a few hours old when the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campaign of World War II and the most complex submarine war in history, began with the sinking of the unarmed passenger liner Athenia...
by Bounty
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Classic Stories of World War II is a collection of fiction and non-fiction excerpts from the works of world-class authors who lived through the conflict. Authentic and impassioned stories reveal the heroism, survival, defeat and triumph of one of the most shocking wars this world has ever seen.
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by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The parachute infantry regiments were among the most highly decorated US Army units of World War II, and between them they saw action right across the world. The elite nature of these units led to them being committed to action not only in the way that had been intended; their quality tempted commanders...
by Nathaniel Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Written in British English, 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.