World War Ii category: 7796 books
Conduct Under Fire
Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of
the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray,...
Churchill
The Greatest Briton Unmasked
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
A startling reappraisal of one of world history’s iconic figures.
In the popular imagination, Winston Churchill is the greatest Briton. He was the lone voice that warned of the threat from Nazi Germany and the steady and defiant hand that guided Britain through its darkest days to ultimate...
Devil at My Heels
A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.
A modern classic by an American legend,* Devil at My Heels* is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor Louis Zamperini. His inspiring...
The Bomber Boys
Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
True tales of heroism and the men who fought and died in the skies of World War II Europe.
In World War II, there were all too many ways for a fighting man to die. But no theater of operations offered more fatal choices than the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe. Inside of a B-17 Bomber, thousands...
by George R. Elford
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Condemned to death for the bloodbaths of World War II, they served their sentence—on the killing fields of Vietnam. The fascinating, true story of the French Foreign Legion’s Nazi battalion
WHAT THEY DID IN WORLD WAS II WAS HITORY’S BLOODIEST NIGHTMARE.
The ashes of World War II were...
Voices of the Pacific
Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call comes an unflinching, brutal, and relentless firsthand chronicle of United States Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific during World War 2.
Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with...
Call of Duty
My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The national bestselling World War II memoir by Buck Compton, a hero from the famed Band of Brothers, with a foreword by John McCain.
As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in critical battles of World War II as a member of Easy Company, immortalized...
Into the Lion's Mouth
The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
**International bestseller!
James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. a double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslavian diplomat…**
On...
Hellcats
The Epic Story of World War II's Most Daring Submarine Raid
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A heart-stopping true tale of a submarine mission aimed at destroying Japan’s merchant marine lifeline and ending World War II.
By 1945, the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific had sunk over a thousand enemy cargo ships and tankers supplying the food, weapons, and oil Japan needed to continue...
Agent 110
An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The “lively and engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) story of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles built an underground network determined to take down Hitler and destroy the Third Reich.
Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. From his townhouse in Bern, Switzerland,...
by Geoffrey Perret
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam.
Geoffrey Perret's Eisenhower gives us, for the first time, the whole man. It brings...
by Ronald Ledwell Sr
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The Germans were among the first to raise a parachute force and they used them with tactical success in Belgium and Holland at the outbreak of World War II. The isolated island of Crete seemed to be the perfect place to use them in a large scale operation. The British forces were in disarray on Crete,...
World War II
The Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
World War II: The Pacific concentrates on how events unfolded in the Far East in the titanic struggle between Japan and the forces of the United States and its allies.
The Liberation of Paris
How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells t****he dramatic story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph that was achieved through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, all racing to save the city from destruction.
Following their...