World War Ii category: 7796 books
The Desert Rats
The 7th Armoured Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
• The exploits of the Desert Rats
• Based on official records and personal accounts
• Traces the division's progress in North Africa, Italy, Normandy and Germany
This classic and inspiring account of the progress of the 7th Armoured Division from the sands of North Africa to the cold...
Hitler's Gauls
The History of the 33rd Waffen Division Charlemagne
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
The divisions of the Waffen-SS were among the elite of Hitler’s armies in World War II, alongside the Germans in the Waffen-SS fought an astonishingly high number of volunteers from other countries. By the end of World War II, these foreign volunteers comprised half of all Hitler’s Waffen-SS,...
The OSS in Burma
Jungle War against the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese," said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it "the most forbidding fighting country imaginable." But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most successful combat operations of...
No Ordinary Pilot
One young man’s extraordinary exploits in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
After a lifetime in the RAF, Group Captain Bob Allen, finally allowed his children and grandchildren to see his official flying log. It contained the line: 'KILLED WHILST ON OPERATIONS'. He refused to answer any further questions, leaving instead a memoir of his life during World War II.
Joining...
French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948)
Critical Moments in a Complex History
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
French Anti-Americanism offers a historical exploration of the central role of anti-Americanism in French thought, and the often compromised position of France's intelligentsia during World War II. It was in the years preceding World War II, with its complex fears and uncertainties, that America first...
by George Forty
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
This is an insight into the most feared army of World War II. The Japanese Imperial Army grew from 1.5 million men in 1939 to 5.5 million men by the end of the war. Their highly successful campaigns in the Far East and the Pacific at the beginning of World War II were every bit as spectacular as those...
Silent Strategists
Harding, Denby, and the U.S. Navy's Trans-Pacific Offensive, World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Few historians have looked beyond the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby. Both sponsored policies that nourished the nation’s industrial infrastructure. Their legacy would yield a dividend of growth, production,...
by Charley Roberts, Charles P. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Charles Sweeny (1882–1963) was the heir to a fortune. Renouncing a life of comfort, he became a warrior for causes he believed in. Twice kicked out of West Point, he fought in revolts against three Latin American dictators. He was a decorated officer in the French Foreign Legion and in the U.S....
Hitler's Europe Ablaze
Occupation, Resistance, and Rebellion during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
While WWII raged across Europe, they fought not for fame or glory, but for their families, their friends, their neighbors, and their countries . . .
As the Allies fought the Axis powers inch by bloody inch over Fortress Europa—from Scandinavia down to Greece, and from France all the way to...
by Michael Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Within weeks of Pearl Harbor, German U-boats arrived off the Delaware coast and attacked numerous ships along the vital shipping lanes to Philadelphia and Wilmington. On February 28, 1942, two German torpedoes hit the destroyer Jacob Jones, which was carrying more than one hundred American sailors. It...
by Markus Lenz
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This electronic book tells the story of a sightseeing tour of Germany at the end of the European War. In May 1945, thousands of men who had, in countless ways, played a part in the aerial attack on Germany received their first opportunity to see the fruits of their labors. The Royal Air Force (RAF),...
by Ian Howie-Willis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Australian soldiers and their American Allies won the land war against Japan in the Pacific slands because they were healthier than their enemies. The troops fighting spirit, their armaments, their naval and air support and their generals were certainly key ingredients in the Allied victory. Without...
British Battle Tanks
British-made tanks of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Plagued by unreliable vehicles and poorly thought-out doctrine, the early years of World War II were years of struggle for Britain's tank corps. Relying on tanks built in the late 1930s, and those designed and built with limited resources in the opening years of the war, they battled valiantly against...
by Thomas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The German Panther is one of the most famous, and greatest, tanks of World War II. Often considered the most elegant tank design of the war, it embodied a balance of firepower, armour protection, and mobility unmatched by any other tank of the period. This new study by German armour expert Thomas...