World War Ii category: 7796 books
Between Giants
The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
During World War II, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia found themselves trapped between the giants of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Over the course of the war these states were repeatedly occupied by different forces, and local government organizations and individuals were forced to choose between...
Pacific Blitzkrieg
World War II in the Central Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, and Okinawa). The commanders on the ground had to integrate the U.S. Army and Marine Corps into a single striking...
Unsung Heroes of the Royal Canadian Navy
Incredible Tales of Courage and Daring During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
At the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy consisted of just 13 warships and about 3000 permanent and reserve members. By the war's end, however, it had grown into the third largest navy in the world, with 365 warships and more than 100,000 personnel. The men and women of the Royal Canadian...
Commandos
Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Amazing revelations and extraordinary exploits of Australia's elite secret warriors.
There was something unique about Australians and New Zealanders in war that prompted World War II Allied commanders to turn to ANZAC soldiers, sailors and airmen to carry out the most dangerous and virtually...
by Jim Pipe
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
World War Two, A Very Peculiar History' explores the most destructive event of the twentieth century, a war that defined and shaped the world we live in today. Jim Pipe introduces the nations, as well as individuals, that participated and the politics that drove them, alongside the Peculiar History-style...
Poland Betrayed
The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
An in-depth history of the attack that began World War II, and one country’s courageous fight against two unstoppable forces.
Hitler’s military offensive against Poland on September 1, 1939 was the brutal act that triggered the start of World War II, wreaking six years of death and bloodshed...
The Secret War for the Middle East
The Influence of Axis and Allied Intelligence Operations During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
It can be argued that the Middle East during the World War II has been regarded as that conflict’s most overlooked theater of operations. Though the threat of direct Axis invasion never materialized beyond the Egyptian Western Desert with Rommel’s Afrika Korps, this did not limit the Axis from probing...
A Crime in the Family
A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War II
One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders...
by Jeffrey Mehlman
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism — Maurice Maeterlinck — came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism — André Breton — came to survive; and where French structuralism — Claude Lévi-Strauss — came to be born. From the largely forgotten prewar...
Going for Broke
Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers—including Japanese Americans—rushed to military recruitment centers. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who...
The Last Escaper
The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
“A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeatedly escaping their prison camps” (Kirkus Reviews).
The product of a lifetime’s reflection, The Last Escaper is Peter Tunstall’s unforgettable memoir of his days in the British Royal Air...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945
North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
This first volume in the seminal series on World War II aerial combat, pilots, and tactics that “reads like an encyclopedia on the subject” (Portland Book Review).
In the early days of World War II, both Allied and Axis powers extended the theater of war to North Africa, where hard-fought...
Quartered Safe Out Here
A Harrowing Tale of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions...
Voices of the Codebreakers
Personal accounts of the secret heroes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of concealed and closely guarded information.
Smuggled written messages, secretly transmitted wireless signals, or months of eavesdropping on radio traffic...