World War Ii category: 7796 books
Codebreakers' Victory
How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
With exclusive interviews, a Signal Corps veteran tells the full story of how cryptography helped defeat the Axis powers, at Bletchley Park and beyond.
For years, the story of the World War II codebreakers was kept a crucial state secret. Even Winston Churchill, himself a great advocate of...
All Ahead Full
World War II Memoirs of an Lsm 215 Veteran
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
LSM 215 Veteran William M. Craighead recounts his memoirs of LSM 215 life during World War II. *Read about the USS LSM 215 with its crew of young men, two-thirds of whom were younger than 20; and their 22 months together aboard ship. Coming from all parts of America, most had never been to sea before....
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
*Includes MacArthur's most colorful and inspiring quotes, including his Victory Broadcast after Japan's surrender and his Farewell Address to Congress *Includes pictures of MacArthur and other important people. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. “There is no...
Shanghai 1937
Stalingrad on the Yangtze
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television.
At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often...
A Higher Call
An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News
A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New...
Donovan
America?s Master Spy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America’s Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure. Donovan, originally published in 1982, penetrates the...
by Jemma Helene
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Tania Laveder was completing her first year of medical school in the spring of 1942, when she received a fateful letter drafting her into World War II to assist Russia’s Red Army. Two-and-a-half generations later, at the age of 93, Tania shares the rollercoaster of her young life during those tumultuous...
The World War II Collection
The Miracle of Dunkirk, Day of Infamy, and Incredible Victory
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Full-length accounts of three decisive WWII events—Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the evacuation of Dunkirk—from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to the beach at Dunkirk. Prime Minister...
The Emmons Saga
A History of the <Br>Uss Emmons (Dd457-Dms22)
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Rear Admiral Edward Baxter Billingsley's book, The Emmons Saga, captures the deck plate routine of the Sailors aboard Emmons as she intersected with the great events of World War II and influenced the course of history. Any reader who has ever served afloat will recognize the authenticity of every...
Merrill's Marauders
The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In August of 1943, a call went out for American soldiers willing to embark on a “hazardous and dangerous mission” behind enemy lines in Burma. The war department wanted 3,000 volunteers, and it didn’t care who they were; they would be expendable, with an expected casualty rate of 85 percent....
Spearhead
An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
**NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • “A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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Normandy Crucible
The Decisive Battle that Shaped World War II in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II.
The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This is an extraordinary history of the Supreme Headquarters of World War II, telling the important stories of the commanders and decisions responsible for defeating Nazi Germany. This volume tells the story of the Supreme Headquarters of that Allied Expeditionary Force which seized a foothold on...
by Clayton R. Newel
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Central pacific (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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One of the first American reactions to the Pearl Harbor debacle was a major shakeup in the Pacific command structure. In a belated effort to achieve...