World War Ii category: 7796 books
Dutch Girl
Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences...
To Hell and Back
The Classic Memoir of World War II by America's Most Decorated Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II
Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic...
Gertruda's Oath
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war...
by Richard Tregaskis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
#1 New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of World War II (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down).
On August 7, 1942, eleven thousand US Marines landed on Tulagi and Guadalcanal Islands in the South Pacific. It was the...
Naples '44
A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The basis for the powerful documentary narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Lewis’s memoir of the Italian city after Nazi occupation is a “masterpiece” (Will Self).
“Vivid, lucid, elegant, often funny,” Naples ’44 is the starkly human account of the true cost of war as seen through...
Combat Officer
A Memoir of War in the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
TO HELL AND BACK
For the U.S., Guadalcanal was a bloody seven-month struggle under brutal conditions against crack Japanese troops deeply entrenched and determined to fight to the death. For Charles Walker, this horrific jungle battle–one that claimed the lives of 1,600 Americans and more...
First Kills
The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Władysław Gnyś
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Polish pilot Władysław (Władek) Gnyś was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On this day, as Gnyś' squadron took off near Kraków to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neubert attacked, killing the captain. Władek,...
Erich Von Manstein
Hitler's Master Strategist
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
A selection of the Military Book Club
To many close students of World War II, von Manstein is already considered to be the greatest commander of the war, if not the entire 20th century. He devised the plan that conquered France in 1940, thence led an infantry corps in that campaign; at the head of...
by Guy Sajer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
This book recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy SajerÆs war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against...
by Albert Kesselring
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
From one of Nazi Germany’s most skillful commanders comes one of the great military autobiographies of World War II.
Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring was one of Germany’s most capable military strategists. Originally a Bavarian army officer, he transferred to the Luftwaffe in 1935 and became...
The Boys' Crusade
The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the...
The Mighty Eighth
The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the skies of World War II Europe, the Eighth Air Force was a defining factor in turning the tide against the Nazis. In these gripping oral histories, the sacrifice, savagery, and supremacy of the “Mighty Eighth” is described by those who experienced it...and survived it.
At the outbreak...
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?
In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen–Winston Churchill first among them–the...
Rising Sun Victorious
Alternate Histories of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The editor of Third Reich Victorious shares plausible alternate scenarios and outcomes of Pacific Theater battles during World War II.
In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents—chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside—that can derail the most brilliant...