World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
During the last century the British aircraft industry created and produced many outstanding aeroplanes. These aircraft were world leaders in advanced technology, utilizing inventions by British engineers and scientists such as radar, the jet engine, the ejector seat and vertical take-off and landing....
by Robert A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Few Florida communities felt the impact of World War II as much as the Atlantic-coast town of Fort Pierce. With a population that soared along with its economy, the small city made an important contribution to Allied victory by hosting a major military training base. Prior to that, the war had come...
Fatal Dive
Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers—whose father commanded the submarine and met his...
by Eugene Liptak
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
With the need for large-scale amphibious landings to decide the outcome of World War II the US Navy developed several types of specialized unit to reconnoitre potential landing areas, degrade the enemy's ability to resist, and assist the landing forces on to the beaches. The Scouts and Raiders were...
Silent Service
Submarine Warfare from World War II to the Present?An Illustrated and Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
See the secret and dangerous world of submarine life and warfare like never before.
From the ingenious but impractical designs of seventeenth-century inventors through the nuclear-powered submarines of today, this heavily illustrated volume traces the history of the silent force and the elite...
German Light Cruisers of World War II
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
On May 27, 2016, American President Barack Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan. He made a historic speech discussing the bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. He noted: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed....
In Hostile Skies
An American B-24 Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
James Jim Davis lived what he considered an impossible dream as he piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. In this memoir, Davis offers heart-wrenching detail concerning the difficulties of qualifying for the U.S. Army Air Forces...
by Susan Gillis, Richard A. Marconi, Debi Murray
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
During World War II, Palm Beach County was a beehive of activity. Beachgoers witnessed the destruction left in the wake of U-boat attacks and then helped rescue survivors and retrieve the dead. One of the first Civil Air Patrol units to hunt German U-boats operated from Palm Beach County. Morrison Field...
Flying Warbirds
An Illustrated Profile of the Flying Heritage Collection's Rare WWII-Era Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Get a comprehensive look at how World War II was fought from the air. Do you want to get an up-close look at some of the rarest airplanes in the world? Are you curious about combat aircraft from World War II? In deluxe hard-back volumes, Flying Warbirds brings U.S., British, German, Russian and Japanese...
by Lachlan Grant
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Half a million Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different peoples, cultures, languages, and religions chafing under the grip of colonial rule. This book paints a picture not only of individual lives transformed, but of dramatically shifting national perceptions, as the gaze of Australia turned from Britain to Asia.
Wings of Gold
An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II, The Correspondence of Aviation Cadet/Ensign Robert R. Rea
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Wings of Gold makes a unique contribution to the history of naval aviation. The book sets out the day-to-day experiences and reactions of a cadet who went through the aviation training program at its peak during World War II. An emphasis on training is missing in almost all books dealing with that...
Projecting Britain at War
The National Character in British World War II Films
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the times in which a film was made shaped its perspectives. Several chapters look at films made during and immediately...
Memory, Identity, and Commemorations of World War II
Anniversary Politics in Asia Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Why do some governments and societies attach great significance to a particular anniversary year whereas others seem less inclined to do so? What motivates the orchestration of elaborate commemorative activities in some countries? What are they supposed to accomplish, for both domestic and international...