World War Ii category: 7796 books
by George L. MacGarrigle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
CENTRAL BURMA (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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During the second half of 1944, the Japanese retreat in Burma continued unabated, with only rearguard actions punctuating an otherwise steady withdrawal....
Freedom in the Air
A Czech Flyer and his Aircrew Dog
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
This biography tells of the life of a Czech airman who escapes from the Nazi invasion, fights with the French and finally arrives in Britain to fly as an air-gunner with the RAF during World War II. He returns to his homeland after World War II but escapes back to the UK again when the communists...
by Mark Felton
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed.
On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance...
by C Shore
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Captain C Shore's enthusiasm for firearms led him to take every possible opportunity to try out different weapons, ammunition and methods of shooting. The result of all his investigations is this practical guide to the sniper&supl;s art in World War II.
His interest was combined with sound...
by Neil Grant, Nikolai Bogdanovic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armoured warfare with the 'Experimental Mechanised Force' during the late 1920s, watched with interest by German advocates of Blitzkrieg. Despite these successes, the Experimental Mechanised Force was...
Inside the Wire
Gloucestershire's POW Camps in the Second World War 1939-48
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Stalag VIII-B, Colditz, these names are synonymous with prisoners of war in World War II. But what of those caught on British soil? Where did they go? Gloucestershire was home to a wealth of POW camps and hostels, and many Italian and German prisoners spent the war years here. This book explores the...
Fighter Pilots in World War II
True Stories of Frontline Air Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
This is the story of Allied fighter pilots and the part they played in all the principal operational theatres of World War II. It also tells of life on the wartime airfield and how ground crew kept the aircraft ready for action either in the bitter cold of a Scottish winter or the sweltering heat...
World War II at Camp Hale
Blazing a New Trail in the Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In April 1942, a little over two years before the Tenth Mountain Division officially obtained its name, the U.S. Army began the unprecedented construction of a training facility for its newly acquired ski and mountain troops. Located near Pando in Colorado's Sawatch Range, the site eventually known...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique publication analyzes the US Army Air Force's Ploesti and Balikpapan oil refinery bombing operations in WW II. The author determines that these operations highlight organizational and leadership differences...
Bands of Sisters
U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had never heard before: Women singing the "Marines' Hymn" instead of the traditional all-male United States Marine Band. The singers were actually members of its sister organization,...
War and Diplomacy in East and West
A Biography of Józef Retinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The New York Times said of Józef Hieronim Retinger that he was on intimate terms with most leading statesmen of the Western World, including presidents of the United States. He has been repeatedly acknowledged as one of the principle architects of the movement for European unity after the World War...
Of War and Men
World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real story of fatherhood during this transformative...
Larrikins in Khaki
Tales of irreverence and courage from World War II Diggers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
With a reputation for being hard to discipline, generosity to their comrades, frankness and sticking it up any sign of pomposity, Australian soldiers were a wild and irreverent lot, even in the worst of circumstances during World War II.
In Larrikins in Khaki, Tim Bowden has collected compelling...
by Theresa L. Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
China Offensive (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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Japanese supply difficulties and the Fourteenth Air Force’s raids had bought part of the time needed for the ALPHA divisions to be turned into an...