World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
With Airpower Leadership on the Front Line: Lt Gen George H. Brett and Combat Command, Douglas Cox makes a singular contribution to American airpower biography. Books abound on personalities that reach high rank and whose careers culminate in great success. These studies often glean keen insight about...
Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy
A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
“Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,” David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country. It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds this memoir of his childhood in a Japanese...
by Tommye Hamilton Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Its 1942 and the United States is deep into World War II. At home, amid adjustments to the hardships and heartaches of war, Kay Ann Franklin is losing a lonely battle caring for her terminally ill mother and her five-year-old twins, one stricken with polio and the other with chicken pox. Worried and...
by Roger Cirillo
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
ARDENNES-ALSACE (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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Commanders and intelligence officers (G–2) at every level— from the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), to the divisions...
The Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict
Comparing the Archaeology of German Submarine Wrecks to the Historical Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
These reports have been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Contents include: World War II: Eisenhower and Clausewitz on the Western Front * The Relationship Between Fox Conner and Dwight Eisenhower * Grant and Eisenhower: A Comparative Study of the Soldier...
Flattop Fighting in World War II
The Battles Between American and Japanese Aircraft Carriers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
World War II’s naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the very important story of the fighting between United States and Japanese aircraft carriers is often lost in broader discussions of the Pacific naval war....
by Gregory D. Sumner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
During World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the Thumb, cut pulpwood in the Upper Peninsula and maintained parks and other public spaces in Detroit....
World War II Croatian Legionaries
Croatian Troops under Axis Command 1941–45
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
As Europe descended into war the newly formed state of Croatia found itself an ally in Nazi Germany. Tens of thousands of Croatians volunteered for the German Wehrmacht, with Croatian-badged units created within the Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS and Police force. When Hitler turned his attention...
Project Eagle
The American Christians of North Korea in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and the creation of Project Eagle, the forgotten alliance between that movement and the Office of Strategic...
World War II
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Highly regarded for its concise clarification of the complexities of World War II, this book illuminates the origins, course, and long-range effects of the war. It provides a balanced account that analyzes both the European and Pacific theaters of operations and the connections between them. The Fifth...
The Final Race
The Incredible World War II Story of the Olympian Who Inspired Chariots of Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An award-winning biography of a man whose faith and resilience continues to inspire.
On July 19, 1924, Eric Liddell was on top of the world. He was the most famous Briton at the time, having just won the gold in the Olympic 400-meter race. The story of that race―and the one he didn’t run―was...
by Mike Befeler
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
For Liberty is a biography of a World War Two veteran. Ed was a Jewish American soldier who fought to expel Germans from France. He recalls battles in the foxholes, blasting tanks with crude bombs made from soda bottles, and how it felt fighting the enemy in the winter.
He vividly describes...
by Arthur Holly Compton
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
As director of the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Arthur Holly Compton was a major participant in the research, production and testing of the first atomic bombs. In this memoir, he tells the story of the bomb’s development from the presentation of...