World War Ii category: 7796 books
by U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Even before the British and Americans were able to make major strategic decisions in 1943, a massive German surrender at Stalingrad in February marked the beginning of the end for Hitlers armies in Russia. From that point forward, the Red Army started to steadily push the Nazis backward toward Germany,...
by William B. Breuer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer
"A first-class historian."
--Wall Street Journal
For Top Tales of World War II
"As evidenced time and again by the prolific Breuer, WWII continues to be a source of absorbing espionage tales. . . . This is a book for rainy...
The Japanese and the War
Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. In The Japanese and the War, Michael Lucken details how World War II manifested in the literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform of the time. Concentrating on the years immediately before and...
Five Days in August
How World War II Became a Nuclear War
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication presents a classic account of a combat commander in action. General George Churchill Kenney arrived in the Southwest Pacific theater in August 1942 to find that his command, if not in a shambles,...
by Scott S. F. Meaker
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
***This is a short book on the aftermath of the Extraordinary Second World War *** War has a tradition of changing the social and economic map of a country. The concept of family was completely torn apart with the widespread devastation of the Second World War. This book looks at the...
by Francis Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
World War Two Luftwaffe aircraft and their pilots have been a source of fascination and respect to aviation buffs since 1945.
This book looks at all aspects of its operation in many World War II theaters.
A great majority of photographs are unlikely to have been seen by the general public...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book describes air supply operations in the India-Burma Theater during the Second World War. Included in the discussion are brief accounts of the ground campaigns that the air supply effort supported as well...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Current events provide almost daily twists in the nature of the Trans-Atlantic relationship. As a result, European militaries are an attractive subject for analysis of the multiple factors...
Defining the Peace
World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia's veterans--black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union--all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In Defining the Peace, Jennifer E. Brooks shows how...
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
The entry of the US into World War II provided the Allies with the industrial might to finally take the war to German and Japanese forces across the world. Central to this was the focus of the American military industrial complex on the manufacture of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles. Between...
Long Journeys Home
American Veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In the modern history of American veterans, it is sometimes difficult to separate myth from fact. The men and women who served in World War II are routinely praised as heroes; the “Greatest Generation,” after all, triumphed over fascism and successfully reentered postwar society. Veterans of the...
Experiences of Japanese American Women during and after World War II
Living in Internment Camps and Rebuilding Life Afterwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Experiences of Japanese American Women during and after World War II: Living in Internment Camps and Rebuilding Life Afterwards examines the experiences of Japanese American women who were in internment camps during World War II and after. Precious Yamaguchi follows these women after they were released...
Sent by the Iron Sky
The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2019
Following on from the success of Ian Gardner's critically acclaimed trilogy on the exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in World War II, Sent by the Iron Sky tells their exhilarating story for a new readership. From the moment they entered the war...