World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Bruce M. Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
With the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Louisville mobilized to fight Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Citizens of all races and economic classes united in the effort, both abroad and at home. Louisville�s many industries banded together as well: the Mengel Company made wood products used...
The Anvil of War
German Generalship in Defense of the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
An unprecedented look at German operations on the Russian Front during World War II.
The Anvil of War collects US Army–commissioned reports by two highly ranked German officers who served on the disastrous Russian Front: Military Improvisations During the Russian Campaign, German Defense Tactics...
by Edward N. Bedessem
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Central Europe (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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To the south, the discovery of a defensive gap in front of the 30th Infantry Division fostered the hope that a full-scale breakout would be possible...
by Elmer Olson, Peter Trunce
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This book was written basically to demonstrate the procedures that Sgt Peter Trunce used in trying to get refugees safely out of Burma and away from the Japanese during World War II. Some of these refugees were their own worst enemies. They died because of their own foolish mistakes, lack of reason...
In the Ruins of Empire
The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing....
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A fascinating and long overdue study of the troops that made up Germany's elite special forces of World War II. Such forces included the legenday Skorzeny Commandos who carried out audacious tasks such as the glider-borne rescue of Mussolini, and the kidnapping of the son of the Hungarian regent,...
We Died With Our Boots Clean
A Royal Marine Commando in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
At the age of seventeen, Kenneth McAlpine ran away from school to join the Royal Marine Commandos. As the youngest member of the youngest commando force, after three months he found himself fighting on the beaches of Normandy. In We Died With Our Boots Clean, McAlpine tells his own unique story of...
It's All Pensionable Time
25 Years in the Royal Canadian Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
George Sweanor was sent, along with fellow Allied Air Forces prisoners of war, to what he considers his Alma Mater, Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Silesia, Germany, after his Halifax bomber was shot down on the return leg from Berlin in March of 1943. The prisoner-of-war camp, famous for The Great Escape,...
Bomber Aircrew of World War II
True Stories of Frontline Air Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Aircrew on a bomber in World War II experienced a cold, tiring and perilous existence. The RAF flew at night, when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb and for many it did not seem prudent to think further ahead than the target, and then hope for a safe return. Daytime raids brought the fear of defending...
The Desert Air Force in World War II
Air Power in the Western Desert, 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became known. It was formed in North Africa to support the 8th Army and included squadrons from the RAF, SAAF, RAAF and eventually the USAAF. The book includes descriptions...
Battle Yet Unsung: The Fighting Men of the 14th Armored Division in World War II
The Fighting Men of the 14th Armored Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
While headline writers in the ETO were naturally focused on events in Normandy and the Bulge in the north equally ferocious combats were taking place in southern France and Germany during 194445 which are now finally getting their due. The US 14th Armored Divisiona late arrival to the theaterwas thrust...
by Mark Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II. Australian divisions made a large and distinctive contribution to victory both in the deserts of the Middle East and the jungles of the South-West Pacific,earning for the second time a...
Death on the Black Sea
The Untold Story of the 'Struma' and World War II's Holocaust at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck, fighting to survive. Nearly eight hundred others -- among them, more than one hundred children --...
Endgame, 1945
The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story.
ENDGAME 1945 highlights the gripping...