World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The first aircraft carriers made their appearance in the early years of World War I. These first flattops were improvised affairs built on hulls that had been laid down with other purposes in mind, and it was not until the 1920s that the first purpose-built carriers were launched, but no-one was as...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This monograph examines whether current Marine Corps cold weather doctrine and related training are adequate to prepare Individuals and units for employment in that environment. Relatively...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book presents a review, analysis and comparison of the World War Two military strategies of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance at the Battle of Midway, and Admiral William P. Halsey at the Battle Of Leyte Gulf. This...
Men Behind the Medals
A New Selection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Of the many characteristics that emerge in warfare, none generates more admiration than gallantry. Using medal groups chosen for their unique combinations of gallantry and campaign awards, Graham Pitchfork pays tribute to the bravery of 20 Allied airmen who flew combat operations during World War...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Marine Corps book is first and foremost a study on the "intra-alliance" dynamics in which one country, the United States, continued to occupy and administer islands that were recognized as Japanese territory but, for...
Polish Hero Roman Rodziewicz
Fate of a Hubal Soldier in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Postwar England
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In Polish Hero Roman Rodziewicz: Fate of a Hubal Soldier in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Postwar England, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm traces the remarkable and tragic tale of Roman Rodziewicz, a true Polish hero of the Second World War. Roman’s childhood was spent in Manchuria where his father, first...
War Pictures
Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain’s filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented...
The Flamboya Tree
Memories of a Mother's Wartime Courage
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
“The Flamboya Tree is a fascinating story that will leave the reader informed about a missing piece of the World War II experience, and in awe of one family’s survival.”
—Elizabeth M. Norman, author of We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
“It...
The Last Government Girl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
In the summer of 1944, Edwina, known as Eddie, a young high school teacher of English and German travels to Washington to work for the war effort unaware a killer is there, targeting government girls. And he's closer than she could ever imagine. Eddie finds Washington crowded and exciting, a city at...
Over There
War Scenes on the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front."’
This book contains an account written by Arnold Bennett detailing the time he spent moving from town to town in France and Belgium during the early stages...
The Bedford Triangle
Undercover Operations from England in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Follow secret operations behind enemy lines in WWII.
The Bedford Triangle portrays the crucial part played by the British Special Operations Executive, the US Army Air Force and the American Office of Strategic Services in operations behind enemy lines in occupied Europe during the Second World...
BattleFire!
Combat Stories from World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
" Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: High on the bridge of the USS West Virginia Sfc. Lee Ebner was looking forward to the end of his watch and a relaxed Sunday morning breakfast. But the two low-flying planes painted with rising sun insignia and bearing down on the ship had other plans for him...
by Gary Edmundson
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
The 'Bison' and Grille' are today's commonly used names for the German self-propelled 15cm schwere Infanteriegeschütz 33 (sIG33) vehicles of World War II. The sIG33 was the most powerful support weapon for the German infantry at the beginning of the war, and from 1940 it was mounted on a range of...
Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947
The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Product Description: Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945–1947, by Professor Hal M. Friedman, studies the contribution of the Naval War College, especially in the presidency of Admiral Raymond Spruance, to strategic thought during...