World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Gavin Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Formed in June 1940 for the purpose of gathering intelligence behind
enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) played a secretive but vital role in North Africa during World War II. Highly trained in mechanized reconnaissance and specializing in desert operations, the unit provided support to...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. When Generals George C. Kenney and Ennis C. Whitehead became the two senior commanders of the US Fifth Air Force in July 1942 their work was cut out for them. The previous January, the Japanese...
SS-Leibstandarte
The History of the First SS Division, 193345
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
‘I swear to thee, Adolf Hitler, as Führer and Chancellor of the German Reich, loyalty and bravery. I vow to thee, and to the superiors whom thou shalt appoint, obedience unto death, so help me God.’ SS Oath of Loyalty The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in World...
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand
The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino,...
Panzer I and II
The Birth of Hitler's Panzerwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic...
The Brandenburger Commandos
Germany's Elite Warrior Spies in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Rare look into the secret military operations of Hitler's Germany
Page-turning narrative detailing the unit's exploits
Very few books have been written about this clandestine operations unit, which was run by the German Army's intelligence service. Trained to be quick, mobile, and self-reliant and...
The Dakota Hunter
In Search of the Legendary DC-3 on the Last Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in post-war Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, aka the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In early April 1943, the United States military targeted and killed Imperial Japanese Marshal Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto. It marked the first time...
Typhoon Attack
The Legendary British Fighter in Combat in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Lively tales of aerial combat in the legendary Typhoon fighter
History of the plane and the men who flew it in World War II
Based on interviews with the pilots themselves
The Typhoon fighter played a pivotal role in the Allies' success in the air and on the ground in World War...
by Henry Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Purge of the Thirtieth Division by Major General Henry Dozier Russell is the only known written work by any of the eighteen National Guard division commanders mobilized in1940 and 1941. It chronicles from a National Guard perspective many of the challenges and growing pains experienced by the Army...
Veterans
Faces of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Ichiro Sudan trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Charin Singh, a farmer from Delhi, spent seven years as a Japanese prisoner of war and was not sent home until four years after the war ended. Uli John lost an...
Hitler's Last Plot
The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II
In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine...
by R.G. Waldeck
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
As European capitals fell during 1940 and 1941, there swarmed to the Athene Palace, Bucharest's Grand Hotel, diplomats, generals, Gestapo spies, and demi-mondaines from all over Europe. Arriving at the crowded Athene Palace on the day Paris fell in 1940, the American female journalist Rosa Goldschmidt...
by Charles R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Algeria–French Morocco (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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After studying maps and intelligence reports, General Patton and TORCH planners formulated a concept of operations for Western Task Force....