World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Reg Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Written in British English, World War II: Europe describes the European and North African theatres of the horrific conflict that was loosed upon the world as a result of the actions and alliances of an aggressive Germany under the Nazi leadership of the charismatic but evil Adolf Hitler.
Farm Hall and the German Atomic Project of World War II
A Dramatic History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II. It is also an "eye-witness" account of the dawning of the nuclear age, with the dialogue and narrative spanning the period before, during and after...
Hell from the Heavens
The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This is "naval history at its best" (Bruce Henderson)--the story of the greatest kamikaze attack of World War II
Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest...
SNAFU Situation Normal All F***ed Up
Sailor, Airman, and Soldier Slang of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
Military life has always been ruled by its own language, specific sets of terms and phrases that separate the serving man or woman from their civilian counterpart. There is the official version of ranks and acronyms, and the more unofficial, colloquial language of the barrack room and battlefield....
Potsdam
The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-World War II Europe
After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food...
Das Reich
The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
World-renowned British historian Sir Max Hastings recounts one of the most horrific months of World War II.
June 1944, the month of the D-Day landings carried out by Allied forces in Normandy, France.Germany’s 2nd SS Panzer Division, one of Adolf Hitler’s most elite armor units, had recently...
by Don Keith, David Rocco
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Dixie Kiefer was a true World War II hero. He was the first man to fly an airplane off a ship at night, Executive Officer on the carrier USS Yorktown at the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, and skipper of USS Ticonderoga when she came under brutal attack by Japanese kamikaze planes. Through it...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication presents a vivid description of the Berlin Airlift and new interpretations of an event often described as the greatest humanitarian airlift in history. In 1948 the Soviet blockade cut the city...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. During the Second World War, the Allied Forces were victorious in the Western Desert Campaign not because of heroic individual leadership, but because improvements in command relationships,...
In Defense of Internment
The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Everything you've been taught about the World War II "internment camps" in America is wrong:
They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteria
They did not target only those of Japanese descent
They were not Nazi-style death camps
In her latest investigative tour-de-force,...
by Michael J. Tougias, Alison O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A true story of men and women pitted against the sea during World War II—and an unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit.
On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and...
by Max Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Bomber Command’s air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF’s attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle in the air began meekly in...
Beware Raiders!
German Surface Raiders in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
A British naval historian recounts the victories and defeats of two of the most infamous German Navy vessels during World War II.
Bernard Edwards’s Beware Raiders! tells the fascinating story of two German ships and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the...
Secrets of Victory
The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
During World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful program of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press. In January 1942, censorship codebooks were distributed to all American newspapers, magazines, and radio stations with...