World War Ii category: 7796 books
Shadow Warriors
The Untold Stories of American Special Operations During WWII
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
In the nearly seven decades following World War II, the heroes of the Allied Forces have been rendered ageless through portrayals transforming their overseas triumphs into household tales. Books, films, and video games have reiterated the stories of such famed American units as Merrill’s Marauders...
by T. Dennis Reece
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Bomb disposal was the most technically demanding and dangerous job outside of combat during World War II. Fewer than five thousand men did it in the American armed forces. During the war their activities were shrouded in secrecy, so that the Axis would not know what techniques the Allies were using....
Bracketing the Enemy
Forward Observers in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines who directed the artillery fire. Until now, the vital role...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is a unique federal report providing information on the facilities used in the World War II internment of Japanese Americans as part of the National Historic Landmarks Program of the National Park Service. "Commemorating...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this handbook is intended as a reference to air defense organizations of the USAF, principally of the Air Defense Command and later the Aerospace Defense Command, from 1946 to 1980. Section I is a brief summary of the evolution...
Three Days at the Brink
FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II—the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill,...
War, Nation, Memory
International Perspectives on World War II in School History Textbooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world’s population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode...
by U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Every year, the West celebrates Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day), commemorated on May 8, 1945 as the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. The formal surrender of the occupying...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Japan, its military leaders confident they could stagger the United States and gain time to seize the oil and other natural resources necessary to dominate the western Pacific, attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, sinking or badly damaging 18 ships, destroying some 200 aircraft, and killing more...
War Bonds
Love Stories from the Greatest Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
A look at love during World War II that “celebrates not only the personal sacrifices these couples made to serve their country, but also their devotion to one another” (San Francisco Book Review).
America’s World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when...
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume III: 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the third of three volumes describing U-boat operations in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939...
Alliance of Enemies
The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Alliance of Enemies tells the thrilling history of the secret World War II relationship between Nazi Germany's espionage service, the Abwehr, and the American OSS, predecessor of the CIA. The actors in this great as-yet-untold story were often at odds with their respective governments. Working in...
by Roger Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Well established on college reading lists, Prisoners Without Trial presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. With a new preface, a new epilogue, and expanded recommended readings, Roger Daniels’s...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
The people of the United States, having rejected the Versailles Treaty and the Covenant of the League of Nations after World War I, remained largely indifferent to most international concerns. They firmly discounted the likelihood of American involvement in another major war, except perhaps with Japan....