World War Ii category: 7796 books
Vanished
The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy.
In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports...
The Rescue
A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Praise for The Rescue
"Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Japan's 'Z Plan' (the decisive-battle strategy for destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet); the rescue by submarine of forty Americans stranded in...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. Dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin. Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more!
by Peter Grose
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II
Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.
This...
Blitzkrieg
Myth, Reality, and Hitler’s Lightning War: France 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A “masterly account” of the juggernaut offensive that conquered France—but also marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews).
In the spring of 1940, the German forces launched an attack on France that combined superb intelligence, cutting edge strategy,...
Bomb Girls
Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mothers, and teenage girls, all "doing their bit" for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets, and war machines that would ensure victory for Britain. It was dangerous,...
Surface and Destroy
The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese...
Long Hard Road
American POWs During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Between 1941 and 1945 more than 110,000 American marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors were taken prisoner by German, Italian, and Japanese forces. Most who fought overseas during World War II weren't prepared for capture, or for the life-altering experiences of incarceration, torture, and camaraderie...
Deciphering the Rising Sun
Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators and Interpreters in the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book is the first to document the vital role played by Americans, not of Japanese ancestry, who served as Japanese language officers in World War II. Covering the period 1940-1945, it describes their selection, training, and service in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during the war and their contributions...
Ghost Riders
When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
It is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered...
As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over...
by Nigel Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
This fascinating study of military leadership follows British general Bernard Law MontgomeryÆs military career from his cadet days and service in World War I to his great victories of World War II, including his defeat of the great German panzer commander, Erwin Rommel, at Alamein.Nigel Hamilton presents...
by Frank E. Vandiver
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
For the millions who want to know more about “The Greatest Generation” and the global struggle they fought and won, an essential work of popular reference.
World War II was the most complex, geographically extensive, and momentous global conflict in human history–a subject uniquely suited...
Disciples
The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
“A fantastic book, one of the very finest accounts of wartime spookery” (The Wall Street Journal)—a spellbinding adventure story of four secret OSS agents who would all later lead the CIA and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe from the author of the bestselling Wild Bill Donavan.
They...
No Greater Glory
The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism—and faith.
As water gushed through a hole made by a German torpedo, four...