World War Ii category: 7796 books
War! What Is It Good For?
Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars...
Fallen Soldiers
Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1991
At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from 1790 to 1914....
German Secret Weapons of World War II
The Missiles, Rockets, Weapons, and New Technology of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A comprehensive, highly detailed study of the V-weapons, as well as the rest of Nazi Germany’s secret weapon program” (Michael D. Hull, HistoryNet**).**
The general public may be familiar with the V-1 and V-2 missiles that played a part in bombing London in 1944, but, truth be told,...
by Hal Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Maine-born Dr. Sumner ôJackö Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American Hospital in Paris, where he quickly became a favorite...
Montgomery in the Good War
Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II.
Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital...
When War Played Through
Golf During Wolrd War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
World War II transformed the American home front, and golf was no exception. The world-famous Masters course at Augusta National became a farm to ease food shortages. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead were drafted, and Bobby Jones enlisted. Rubber rationing forced pros and amateurs alike to play with well-worn...
by Bill Harriman
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Mosin-Nagant is the world's longest-surviving and most widely distributed military rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and many other countries for more than five decades. It has seen action from World War I to the present day, but is most famous for its role during World War II when it proved...
by U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 411, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister...
by Ben Shephard
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory was assured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler would come into focus or even assume the name of the Holocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath. Taking cues from the end of the First World War,...
Home Front to Battlefront
An Ohio Teenager in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he enlisted, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of...
by Sheldon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Two parts of this three part book are based upon fact: anti-Semitism and World War 2.One part of this book represents a fiction tale involving World War 2 Jewish refugees and Russian army soldiers teamed up for behind the lines partisan warfare against the invading Nazi army.
Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
A Boyhood Year During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
From beloved broadcaster Charles Osgood, a poignant memoir about one unforgettable childhood year during World War II.
Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack is a gloriously funny and nostalgic slice of American life and a moving look at World War II from the perspective of a child far away...
Mac, Brandy and Me World War Ii
Memories of a Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This is the story of my life from ages eighteen to twenty-one, serving as an infantry soldier and radio operator in the European Theater during those years of combat against Germany during World War II. I am now eighty-six, looking back to those eventful years and remembering history. I grew up in...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II. The first 'Blitzkrieg' campaigns saw the tank achieve a new dominance. New infantry tactics and weapons – some of them desperately dangerous – had to be adopted, while the armies raced...