World War Ii category: 7796 books
Secret Wings of World War II
Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
There are many myths and legends surrounding the advanced German aeronautical technology of the Second World War. There are also facts and proven events. Yet within these stories and behind these facts lie conspiracy theories, mistaken assumptions and denials that seem to contradict the evidence....
by Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Vergeltungswaffen, retaliatory weapon, was a term coined during the Second World War to represent some Wunderwaffe, miraculous weapons, that Germany was developing. The "miracle" weapons, according to the propaganda, would have given a clear technological superiority of the German army and...
by Paolo Varriale
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Austro-Hungarian industry produced a series of poor fighter types such as the Phönix D I and Hansa-Brandenburg D I during the early stages of the war, and it was not until licence-built examples of the battle-proven Albatros and D II and D III began to reach Fliegerkompagnien, or Fliks, in May 1917...
Fear Drive My Feet
Text Classics
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan’s enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II.
Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships of the jungle, overcoming loneliness,...
Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman
European Theater of Operations 1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
During World War II, the two pre-eminent mechanized infantry forces of the conflict, the German Panzergrenadier arm and the US Army's armoured infantrymen, clashed in France and Belgium after the Normandy landings. These engagements went on to profoundly influence the use of mechanized infantry in...
by W. Stanley Moss, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read." —San Francisco Chronicle
Ill Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German...
US Heavy Cruisers 1943–75
Wartime and Post-war Classes
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
This title follows on from a companion book covering the US heavy cruisers that were built prior to the war, together forming the definitive guide to the US's heavy cruiser classes. Versatile warships, the heavy cruisers of the Baltimore class, and their successors in the Oregon City and Des Moines...
We Will Not Go to War
Conscientious Objection during the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women followed the promptings of their conscience and refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved, and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience. They came from all classes and backgrounds. During World War I, 73 conscientious objectors died...
To Hell and Back
Europe 1914-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
**"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every ‘ism’ of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."—The...
An Iron Wind
Europe Under Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to understand the terrifying chaos of war
In An Iron Wind, prize-winning historian Peter Fritzsche draws diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe...
Becoming the Arsenal
The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy. The first was the Great Depression and the government's New Deal recovery program. The second was the gradual abandonment of the monetary...
Destination Casablanca
Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.
In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch,...
Spinning History
Politics and Propaganda in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
An “original and insightful” look at World War II through the lens of theater, propaganda, and the most important performances in human history (Richard Cole, PhD).
In this fascinating book, more relevant than ever in today’s political climate of “fake news” and “alternative facts,”...
Subhas Chandra Bose
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Subhas Chandra Bose continues to be a well-known figure in India more than fifty years after his death, but in the West remains a shadowy figure unknown to many. He made headlines worldwide as the extremist leader of the Provisional Government of Free India after its establishment by the Axis powers...