World War Ii category: 7796 books
Secret Messages
Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In wartime, however, enemy codemakers make that task much more difficult. If you cannot break their codes and read their messages, you may discover too late the enemy's intentions. That's why codebreakers were considered such a crucial weapon during...
'For Their Own Good'
Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The historic battles of the Marines in the Pacific War are recounted in this U.S. Marines history book. Some of the subjects covered include: Mount Suribachi, Kamikaze Pilots, Marine Zippo Tanks, MacArthur and Roosevelt, V Amphibious Corps.
Here are excerpts:
Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked...
Captured on Corregidor
Diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
On graduating from West Point in 1940, Lieutenant John Wright was assigned to Corregidor, Philippine Islands. Captured there by the Japanese, he endured three and a half years of POW conditions described in subsequent war crimes trials as the worst of World War II. This book is built around a diary...
by Dan McMartin
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
John Powell is the heroic lone survivor when his squad is overrun by Germans in Sicily. That all too familiar tragedy catches the attention of the top secret Office of Strategic Service, the OSS. John is recruited and sent to a hidden facility in Scotland for training as a secret agent. Once he’s paid...
Lingering Fever
A World War II Nurse's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war. Nothing in her training had prepared her for the tropical diseases or the thatched-roof hospital where men spat on the floor, rats were pervasive, and patients...
The D-Day Visitor's Handbook
Your Guide to the Normandy Battlefields and WWII Paris
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The complete guide to visiting one of the most famous sites in the history of warfare, just in time for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
The D-Day Visitor’s Handbook includes everything you need to know to plan and make your visit to the site of the biggest seaborne invasion in history. Newly...
America's First Frogman
The Draper Kauffman Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and went on to a distinguished naval career. Today Admiral Kauffman is remembered as the nation's first...
German U-Boat Losses During World War II
Details of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
No other publication on this subject comes even close to including the amount of detail provided in this book. An introduction both summarizes previous works on the subject and describes the difficulties of obtaining and verifying information from either the Germans or the Allies on U-boat losses.
The...
by Vic Hillery, emerson Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Paths of Armor is the account of the historic 5th Armored Division from the time of its formation in October 1941, to the end of the war in May 1945. Because of the secrecy of its missions and the speed at which the men and equipment moved, the Division was also known as "Patton's Ghosts",...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines...
The Eastern Front
The Germans and Soviets at War in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Stackpole’s Battle Briefings series offers accessible and insightful summaries of battles, commanders, and other military history topics. This volume covers the epic clash between the Germans and Soviets on the Eastern Front during World War II. Highlights include Operation Barbarossa, the massive...
Economic War Circle Ii
Satellite Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Four-star general James Westovers personal account of his military mission to the EU testimony and transcript was about to be read to Congress. The story commences with James, whose commission included being sworn in as honorary judiciary of Economic War Circle or Court. James iterated to Congress...
The War in Their Minds
German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers’ experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part...