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Into the Rising Sun
In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veteran
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
"Iwo Jima was a massacre. I never expected anything like that. People were dying left and right...No names should have been used on the flag raisings because we didn't get up there by ourselves. It was the collective actions of a lot of people and there were a lot of Raiders and paratroopers up there...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
During World War II, the US Marine Corps formed six tank battalions that battled through the harsh conditions of the Pacific Theatre. Using the same basic tanks as the US Army, notably the M3 and M5A1 light tanks and the M4 Sherman medium tank, the marines made both technical and tactical innovations...
Deathride
Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, began a war that lasted nearly four years and created by far the bloodiest theater in World War II. In the conventional narrative of this war, Hitler was defeated by Stalin because, like Napoleon, he underestimated the size and resources of...
Beyond Valor
World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Previous books have promised to describe the combat experience of the World War II GI, but there has never been a book like Patrick O'Donnell's Beyond Valor. Here is the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves, and perhaps the most honest and brutal account of...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
THE FORGE: The Decline and Rebirth of the American Military, November 12, 1918 to December 6, 1941 by Eric Hammel = Because the United States military undertook its first World War II offensive operations in the Pacific within only eight months of Pearl Harbor, most historians and readers of the wars...
The Boy Who Went to War
The Story of a Reluctant German Soldier in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many— this is the story of Wolfram Aïchele, a boy whose childhood was stolen by a war in which he had no choice but to fight.
Giles Milton has been a writer and historian for many...
A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich
The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The fascinating true story of a German bureaucrat who worked secretly with the Allies during World War II.
In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz...
by George L. MacGarrigle
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Aleutian islands - The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II
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Kiska and Attu, Theobald and Buckner agreed to establish a series of airfields west of Umnak from which bombers could launch strikes against the...
War in the Pacific
From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to...
Japanese Army in World War II
Conquest of the Pacific 1941–42
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
The Japanese conquest of the Pacific comprised of a complex series of widely scattered operations; their intent was to neutralize American, Commonwealth, and Dutch forces, seize regions rich in economic resources, and secure an outer defense line for their empire. Although their conquest was successful,...
by Leo Hirre
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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North-East New Guinea, had given them a base beyond the other side of the straits and thus secured unhampered access to the Bismarck Sea. Yet...
The Forgotten 500
The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...
During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied...
Faithful Warriors
A Combat Marine Remembers the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Ladd’s book chronicles his experiences as a junior officer in some of the fiercest fighting of the war in the Pacific....
by Steve Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
John Holmes was a schoolboy when World War II broke out in 1939, but even he jknew his destiny lay in the skies. 'Boys from these parts don't join the RAF', he was told on more than one occasion. But they were wrong.After many months undergoing selection and training he eventually made it into the...