World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since WWII, historians have lionized General Patton for his bold and daring leadership during Allied campaigns. His many biographers have highlighted his ability to instill discipline, remove...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Following the end of the World War I, the major combatants engaged in varying degrees of reorganization and reformation to incorporate the lessons learned from the conflict. Germany faced...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Change and innovation are issues that constantly confront an organization like the Army. During certain periods, the currents of change seem stronger than others. Today the Army confronts the Information Age revolution and a transition into a new century, while simultaneously executing more missions...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
This text provides an innovative global military history that joins three periods—World War I, the interwar years, and World War II. Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive survey of both wars, comparing continuities and differences. He traces the causes of each war and assesses land, sea, and air warfare...
The Aleut Internments of World War II
Islanders Removed from Their Homes by Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to...
Shepherds of the Sea
Destroyer Escorts in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information...
The Star in the Window
Select Stories of World War Ii Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
When a service banner adorned with stars was displayed in a homes window during World War II, it meant a family member was involved in the war. Some of the soldiers never returned, but those who did come home carried memories and war stories. In The Star in the Window, author Louis C. Langone tells...
Rosie the Rubber Worker
Women Workers in Akron's Rubber Factories during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
In this richly illustrated book Kathleen L. Endres examines the lives of women working in the rubber industry in World War II.Endres points out that women were not new to the factories of Akron. Years before the war, many women had been balancing their home lives with working in these factories. And...
World War Noir
Sydney's unpatriotic war
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
It seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and crime – in the form of sex, drugs, alcohol, racketeering and other illicit activities – go hand in hand. A companion book to the later glory days of the Sydney underworld from Sydney Noir,...
Summary & Analysis of Killing the SS
The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History | A Guide to the Book by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
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In their seventh installment of the bestselling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard weave...
The Thompson Submachine Gun
From Prohibition Chicago to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun developed an almost iconic status during the 20th century. It had an unusual beginning, for it was developed during the dying days of World War I as a 'one-man, hand-held machine gun.' The war ended before these first prototypes could be shipped to Europe...
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, this book covers airfields in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire and Northamptonshire.
12 Group was formed in 1937 within Fighter Command to become responsible for aerial defense of the industrial Midlands. During World War Two this group was the...
by Charles K. Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
While researching his previous study, Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II (Wayne State University Press, 2013), award-winning automotive historian Charles K. Hyde discovered the many remarkable photos that were part of the era’s historical documentation. In Images...
A Call to Arms
The Personal History of a World War Ii Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In A Call to Arms a highly-decorated World War II U.S. Navy pilot recounts his experiences searching for Nazi submarines in the North Atlantic and providing air support during the Allied invasion of Southern France. Written in 1988 while the author was dying of lung cancer, the book provides a personal...