World War Ii category: 7796 books
Heroes in the Skies
American Aviators in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, these gripping true stories capture the astonishing bravery of the fliers who helped win World War II. American pilots fought fierce and often deadly battles in every theater of war, and many overcame incredible obstacles...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication provides a history of the USAF enlisted force. Histories of the United States Air Force and its predecessor organizations have focused on pilots, planes, and the use of air power. While certainly...
From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
The American Armed Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Before this book, general readers who wanted a compact but comprehensive history of American military action in World War II had nowhere to turn. Now, in this concise, lucid, and balanced account, D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provide the first one volume history of the U.S. armed forces in...
SIGINT
The Secret History of Signals Intelligence in the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
From MORSE to ENIGMA, ULTRA to PURPLE, Room 40 to Bletchley—the story of secret signals in both of the World WarsCommunicating in the chaos of war is complicated, but vital. Signals intelligence makes it possible. In World War I, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning...
Burdened but Unruffled
The Story of a World War II Submarine and its Crew
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Launched in 1942 as World War II was raging, HMS Unruffled patrolled the oceans for the remainder of the hostilities, destroying nearly 40,000 tons of enemy shipping - and one train - before retiring, battered and bruised but glorious, and without losing a man. James Gregan's home town of Colchester...
Sparrow - A Chronicle of Defiance
An epic account of The Sparrows - Battle of Britain gunners who defended Timor as part of Sparrow Force in 1942.
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
(www.sparrowbook.net) Sparrow is a seldom-heard but uplifting story of The Sparrows - Battle of Britain gunners who defended Timor as part of Sparrow Force.
It is the story of Charlie McLachlan's war: a triumph of stubborn Scottish defiance and laconic Aussie genius over the relentless violence...
A Tragedy of Democracy
Japanese Confinement in North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies them...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. While the US Army has ostensibly embraced mission command doctrine, it has failed to live up to many of its central tenets. It unevenly practices mission command and has been unable to fully...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. As the US Army transitions into a period of transformation, it is focusing its attention on becoming a more adaptable organization that can meet the challenges of an uncertain future. Faced...
G.I.
The American Soldier in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Lee Kennett provides a vivid portrait of the American soldier, or G.I., in World War II, from his registration in the draft, training in boot camp, combat in Europe and the Pacific, and to his final role as conqueror and occupier. It is all here: the "greetings" from Uncle Sam; endless lines in induction...
by David Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and a limited amount of armour plate, used by the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. By 1915, nearly 100 had been built and turned over to the Army. From then on, as Sir Albert Stern said 'They searched...
by Jay Wertz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
*The World Turns to War weaves stories of combat veterans into an event-by-event history of the war. Includes the words of veterans of all forces — in all theaters of operation. Illustrated by high-quality photographs, full-color images and detailed maps,
War Stories: World War II Firsthand™...
Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun
The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Throughout World War II, when Saturday nights came around, servicemen and hostesses happily forgot the war for a little while as they danced together in USO clubs, which served as havens of stability in a time of social, moral, and geographic upheaval. Meghan Winchell demonstrates that in addition...
Air Apaches
The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Historian and aviator Jay Stout follows up his spellbinding account of the U.S. 303rd Bomb Group—Hell’s Angels—with the equally remarkable story of the Air Apaches in the Pacific. Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in impressively painstaking detail, capturing what it was...