World War Ii category: 7796 books
Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
Bomber Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the...
by V. E. Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
A fascinating account of one of the most successful spying operations of World War II
Long recognized as one of the most successful (and ruthless) spy networks in history, the Red Orchestra was a group of Soviet cells that operated throughout Germany and occupied Europe until late 1943. The...
Infamy
The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II
Less than three months after Japan bombed...
Reporting War
How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II’s daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number...
Fighting With The Screaming Eagles With The 101st Airborne From Normandy To Bastogne
With the 101st Airborne from Normandy to Bastogne
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Robert Bowen was drafted into Company C 401st Glider Infantry 101st Airborne Division as World War II broke out and soon afterwards found himself storming ashore amid the chaos on Utah Beach through unfamiliar terrain littered with minefields and hidden snipers. He was wounded during the Normandy...
Visions From a Foxhole
A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division’s bold campaign to break through Hitler’s “impregnable” Siegfried line at the end of World War II
Eighteen-year-old William Foley was afraid the war would be over before he got there, but the rifleman was sent...
The Do-Or-Die Men
The 1st Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
The gripping true account of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion -- from its formation and training to its heroic baptism under fire in the battles of Tulagi and Guadalcanal.
No campaign in World War II was undertaken with as many shortcomings as Operation Watchtower -- the invasion of Guadalcanal in...
Midnight in the Pacific
Guadalcanal--The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A sweeping narrative history--the first in over twenty years--of America's first major offensive of World War II, the brutal, no-quarter-given campaign to take Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal
From early August until mid-November of 1942, US Marines, sailors, and pilots struggled for dominance...
In Deadly Combat
A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2000
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures the sights, sounds, and smells of the war as it vividly portrays an army marching on the road to ruin.
A...
Where the Iron Crosses Grow
The Crimea 1941–44
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
The Crimea has been the scene of conflict throughout its history. First occupied by the Russians in the 18th century it was the scene of the Crimean War, and was drawn into the Russian Civil War, as well as World War II. Today it remains a much disputed region with the Crimea at the center of ongoing...
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
At dusk on December 8, 1941, the carrier Enterprise and her escort of cruisers and destroyers entered Pearl Harbor. Officers and men lined the rails, watching in stunned silence. The twisted, smoldering superstructure of the Arizona was still aflame, and there was a stench of charred wood and fuel...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Under cover of the bombardment, the Germans blew gaps in the wire and cleared paths through the minefield. By the following morning, they had established a hole through the outer defences a mile and a half wide and taken more than 100 prisoners. Their charismatic leader, the dynamic Erwin Rommel,...
On American Soil
How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
On a hot August night in 1944, a soldier’s body was discovered hanging by a rope from a cable spanning an obstacle course at Seattle’s Fort Lawton. The body was identified as Private Guglielmo Olivotto, one of the thousands of Italian prisoners of war captured and brought to America.
The...
Leader Born
The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
John S. ‘Slew’ McCain was an old–school sailor. Wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of ‘Popeye.’ He was also a pioneer in the hard–hitting naval tactics that brought Imperial Japan to its knees.
McCain graduated from Annapolis in 1906 and served...