World War Ii category: 7796 books
Über Alles
A Novel of Love, Loyalty, and Political Intrigue In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In less-conflicted times they might never have met, but as Germany lurched toward World War II many lives were forced to change direction. Dieter is the orphaned son of a music professor and one of that teacher’s pupils. His father had been killed in World War I and his mother died in the influenza...
Cheerio and Best Wishes
Letters from a World War II Hoosier Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This is the true story of a young boy from Posey County, Indiana, who had a dream to fly. The outbreak of World War II enabled him to fulfill that dream. Cheerio and Best Wishes is told entirely through the letters he wrote to his family and friends. Detailed narrative and commentary provide explanation...
Intrepid
The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a major air and space museum in New York City
The USS Intrepid is a warship unlike any other. Since her launching in 1943, the 27,000-ton, Essex-class aircraft carrier...
Churchill The Young Warrior
How He Helped Win the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill’s early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars—on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally in the...
by C. D. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
In You Can’t Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe says, “Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.” C. D. Peterson’s Homefront: A Memoir from WWII permits all of us to lean down and listen as daily life unfolds for ordinary people...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. What were the key innovations of the Pacific logistics infrastructure in World War II that made the long-range ocean war a success? This paper will review the Navy/Marine use of mobile bases,...
The Mathews Men
Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
**“Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."
—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat
From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the...
Choices Under Fire
Moral Dimensions of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
World War II was the quintessential “good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What...
Fighting Patton
George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
He is remembered as an officer with few equals. A leader who attained legendary status while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness. But no matter the opinion or label attached to his name, few can argue...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The field equipment of the German Army in World War II was closely related to that used throughout World War I and earlier, yet it was of relatively light weight, ruggedly constructed, well designed, functional, and generally of a high quality, though this deteriorated in the later war years. A high...
by William L. Shirer
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The famous war correspondent delivers an edge-of-your seat account of the naval chase and battle to take out one of Hitler’s most powerful warships.
The Bismarck wasn’t just any warship. Its guns were much stronger and more accurate than any others in its day—meaning it could easily sink...
To Bataan and Back
The World War II Diary of Major Thomas Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Aggie tradition of Muster stretches back to the earliest days of the college. But an extraordinary Muster took place during World War II that would change and further hallow the service thereafter. In the spring of 1942, with Japanese forces poised to overrun the Allies on the Philippine island...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since Thucydides chronicled land and naval warfare in 420 B.C., volumes have been written on innumerable battles in search of continuities, principles, and the nature of surface warfare. Air...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, examines the underappreciated work of Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner and his contributions to the airlift element of airpower. Throughout the brief history of military aviation and the United States Air...