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Our Mothers' War

American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II

by Emily Yellin
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

**"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944** Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed...
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Myth and the Greatest Generation

A Social History of Americans in World War II

by Kenneth Rose
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more...
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The World War II Chronicles

The Fall of Japan and Enemy at the Gates

by William Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

A “virtually faultless” account of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific and the definitive history of the battle for Stalingrad together in one volume (The New York Times Book Review). Author William Craig traveled to three different continents, reviewed thousands of documents,...
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The Wolves of World War II: An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front

An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front

by Hans Thiel, Ivan Fehrenbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007

On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating the Volkssturm or People's Army. His new draft called into service all remaining able-bodied men, including those whose civilian labor had previously been deemed indispensable. Among the latter was an East Prussian...
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Third Reich Victorious

Alternate Histories of World War II

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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

This book is a stimulating and entirely plausible insight into how Hitler and his generals might have defeated the Allies, and a convincing sideways look at the Third Reich's bid at world domination in World War II. What would have happened if, for example, the Germans captured the whole of the BEF...
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by Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide is a history of the critical campaigns of World War II that highlights the ôvisibleö turning point battles of the war in 1942 and 1943. By focusing not only on what happened but also on why, Alan LevineÆs in-depth approach to the subject questions whether...
Cover of Reflections on Air Force Independence - Transition from the Army Air Forces (AAF), Creation of USAF, Strategic Air Command (SAC), World War II, Atomic Bomb
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013

The United States Army's air arm waged a frustrating and uncertain battle during the interwar years to gain greater autonomy from the War Department. For the air arm, the key transition was the establishment in 1935 of the General Headquarters (GHQ) Air Force under Brig. Gen. Frank M. Andrews. The...
Cover of American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries - Volume 2 - England, Normandy, Italy, Iwo Jima, Paris and Germany
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012

Gen Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. While volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and...
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by Rodolfo Balao
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012

Thirteen-year-old Rodolfo Balao was in church listening to a solemn Mass when Japanese planes flew over his town in the Philippines and bombed the airfield. Just days after Rodolfo and his family evacuated to a farm high above Tuguegarao, the Japanese took over their town, razing and killing until...
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The Pentagon

A History

by Steve Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008

The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell conceived and built...
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THE LAST VOICES

World War II Veterans Of The Air War Speak More Than Half A Century Later

by Elizabeth D Cassen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

Mindful of the fact that over six hundred World War II veterans are passing away each day, according to recent figures from the Veterans Administration, I set out on a series of road trips across the United States and Canada to photograph, and hear the stories of some of the survivors.This...
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Tattooed on My Soul

Texas Veterans Remember World War II

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War II generation in the state of Texas. Tattooed on My Soul brings together seventeen of the most compelling narratives from Baylor’s extensive collection...
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by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014

The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and many times more destruction as had been caused...
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by TIME-LIFE Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015

World War II, fought from 1939 to 1945, engulfed the globe in a shattering struggle over national sovereignty and individual rights. It was also the costliest battle in history in terms of human life, with millions perishing in combat, in concentration camps, and under the rubble of crushed cities....
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