World War Ii category: 7796 books
The Jungle War
Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Praise for Gerald Astor
"No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor. . . . Great reading."
-Stephen Ambrose on The Mighty Eighth
"Gerald Astor has proven himself a master. Here, World War II is brought to life through the hammer blows of their airborne triumphs...
The Airborne in World War II
An Illustrated History of America's Paratroopers in Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge—the US Airborne divisions were integral at all these major points in World War II. But they also played a significant role in North Africa, where they first saw action, and in Italy in 1943. Right on the tail of these planes, this expert history...
Paratroopers
Ready for Anything – From WWII to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
PARATROOPERS Ready for Anything – From WWII to Afghanistan
Contents Introduction: The Formation of the British Parachute Regiment Section 1: World War II : Operation Colossus; Operation Biting; Operation Torch; Operation Husky; Operation Tonga; Operation Hasty; Operation Dragoon; Operation...
The Polish Experience through World War II
A Better Day Has Not Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and refugee...
Roosevelt and Stalin
Portrait of a Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A hugely important book that solely and fully explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, by the editor of My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin (“History owes a debt to Susan Butler for the...
Wartime America
The World War II Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Designed to give students a concise compass to probe the history of World War II America and to assess the war’s impact on American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition but adds new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of...
Battlefield Surgeon
Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912--1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months working in...
by Chris Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Second World War, from the highest-rated fighter aces to the most inventive escape equipment used to break out of Colditz; from army pay by rank to the largest battleships; from the most stirring speeches to the biggest tactical errors; from the strangest...
War at the End of the World
Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea.
**“A meaty, engrossing narrative history… This will likely stand...
Big Week
Six Days that Changed the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
In just six days, the United States Strategic Air Forces changed the course of military offense in World War II. During those six days, they launched the largest bombing campaign of the war, dropping roughly ten thousand tons of bombs in a rain of destruction that would take the skies back from the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Four important U.S. Marines history books are compiled in this fascinating ebook about operations in the Pacific during World War II, including the Philippines, Japan, and the Solomons. Topics covered include Corregidor, the Bataan Death March, the Occupation of Japan, the Northern Solomons, Treasury...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book provides a comprehensive history of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) of the U.S. Army medical department, with a record of the first 40 years of this important institution. The little-known manuscript,...
Why We Fought
Forging American Obligations in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Why We Fought is a timely and provocative analysis that examines why Americans really chose to sacrifice and commit themselves to World War II. Unlike other depictions of the patriotic “greatest generation,” Westbrook argues that, strictly speaking, Americans in World War II were not instructed...
by Alessio Cavatore, Rick Priestley, Warlord Games
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Written by veteran game designers Alessio Cavatore and Rick Priestley, Bolt Action provides all the rules needed to bring the great battles of World War II to your tabletop. Using miniature soldiers, tanks and terrain, you can fight battles in the shattered towns of occupied France, the barren deserts...