World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Antony Beevor
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The...
Marcel's Letters
A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book Award
A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II.
Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn...
You'll Be Sor-ree!
A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
**Sid Phillips, a World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific, offers up an invaluable firsthand account of the war against Japan. **
A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he entered combat with the Japanese....
The True Story of Catch 22
The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller’s 340th Bomb Group in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
After the publication of his bestselling novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group the novels characters were indeed recognizablethe hard-drinking,...
And There Was Light
The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran...
The Freedom Line
The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The romance of Casablanca ... the gripping narrative of Eye of the Needle ... both come together in this enthralling true story of World War II resistance fighters and the airmen they saved.
As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down onmissions...
Okinawa
The Last Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing...
As Good As Dead
The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
**“[A] truly uplifting tale of deliverance from certain death… a deeply personal read, in which the reader is drawn into the highs and lows of the action, the tragedy and the salvation, because Moore has so successfully drawn out the characters…. Compelling reading and hard to put down.”—Naval...
Finish Forty and Home
The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from target,...
Citizen Soldiers
The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.
In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues...
Rather Die Fighting
A Memoir of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped....
The Last Battle
The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich -- newly in print for the 50th anniversary of VE Day.
The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of...
On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation.
The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles...
The Brigade
The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Battalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War II
Based on war diaries, casualty reports, and after-action interviews
The author is one of Canada's preeminent military historians
Consisting of the Calgary...