World War Ii category: 7796 books
LIFE Heroes of World War II
Men and Women Who Put Their Lives on the Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
A moneygrubbing Nazi who spent his fortune saving Jews, a Bon Marche perfume seller who became a British spy, a Polish priest who gave his life so that another man could live. These are just a few of the ordinary people who became extraordinary heroes - on and off the battlefields of World War II.
World War II in the Pacific
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Stanley Sandler, one of America's most respected and best-known military historians, has brought together over 300 entries by some 200 specialists in the field to create the first encyclopedia specifically devoted to the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Extending far beyond battles and hardware, the...
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary German fighter aces of World War II. It explains why only a small minority of pilots - those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything - accounted for so large a proportion of the victories. It surveys the skills that a successful...
by William B. Breuer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
"As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime." --William B. Breuer, in
The annals of World War II are mined with captivating cases of strange coincidences, ominous premonitions, and baffling mysteries. Now, William Breuer's painstaking research...
by Michael Olive, Robert J. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A visual history of the German soldier on the Eastern Front of World War II.
Nazis after Hitler
How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This deeply researched and informative book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust—some well known, some obscure—who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were only rarely, if ever, tried or punished...
Shrapnel in the Piano
A Family in Germany Before, During, and After World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“Here is a rare glimpse into the dislocations, deprivations, and suffering of a professional German family. It is a moving story about how one family, especially one young girl, drew on resourcefulness and imagination to survive and thrive.”
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Hitler's Shadow War
The Holocaust and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
In Hitler's Shadow War, World War II scholar Donald M. McKale contends that the persecution and murder of the Jews, Slavs, and other groups was Hitler's primary effort during the war, not the conquest of Europe. According to McKale, Hitler and the Nazi leadership used the military campaigns of the...
Forgotten Ally
China's World War II, 1937–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: “Superb” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War...
The Dragon's War
Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Making full use of significant new sources in Chinese-language materials, U.S. Naval Academy professor Maochun Yu provides Western readers with the first detailed account of military and intelligence operations conducted inside China by foreign powers between 1937 and 1945. He also addresses the profound...
by Mark D. Sherry
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
China defensive (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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Still, China had a lower priority for supplies than the United States and its European Allies. Even the relatively meager amount of materiel required...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of the Second World War. This little book, which first appeared in Air &...
by Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This book is a detailed analysis of the Soviet Army at the outbreak of World War II, including the Red Army's campaigns against Japan on the Manchurian plains as well as in Finland. It covers the Red Army's first operations during Operation Barbarossa when the Red Army was forced to defend Mother...
Churchill and Tito
SOE, Bletchley Park and Supporting the Yugoslav Communists in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The true story of Winston Churchill’s fateful decision to side with the Communist Partisans of Yugoslavia in World War II—and seal that nation’s fate.
One of Winston Churchill’s most controversial decisions during the Second World War concerned the United Kingdom’s role in Yugoslavia....