World War Ii category: 7796 books
A Wasp Among Eagles
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of them,...
by Samuel Goudsmit, David C. Cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Near the end of World War II, as Allied armies swept across battle-torn Germany and leading scientists at Los Alamos were racing to assemble the atomic bombs America would drop over Japan later that summer, General Leslie Groves, the military head of the Manhattan Project, established Alsos, a unit...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II
In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.
He takes photographs from...
Climb to Conquer
The Untold Story of WWII's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Few stories from the "greatest generation" are as unforgettable -- or as little known -- as that of the 10th Mountain Division. Today a versatile light infantry unit deployed around the world, the 10th began in 1941 as a crew of civilian athletes with a passion for mountains and snow. In this vivid...
by Victoria Washuk
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Do you find yourself watching reality tv? Well, if you do, click off that set and head for the real thing. These diary entries, written 70 years ago by Ruby Thompson, who had to simultaneously put up with the Blitz bombing of London and a marriage that was as damaging to a woman's psyche as those...
Burma Warrior
Pete Avrea's World War II Story in China-Burma-India 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
"Look out! That zero's coming right over, Pete, shoot him! Shoot him! Oh my God, we're on fire! On fire! We're burning! Going down! Going down!" Eighteen year old Pete Avrea was like millions of other young men who enlisted in the military following the attack on Pearl Harbor during World...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
AIR WAR EUROPA: Chronology by Eric Hammel -- Follow the great Amerian aerial crusade of World War II over North Africa and Europe. This exhaustive chronology sheds a fascinating light on the course of Americas air war against Germany and her Axis partners. * The Air War Europa Chronology is a day-by-day...
Aces High
The Heroic Saga of the Two Top-Scoring American Aces of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Capturing the hearts of a beleaguered nation, the fighter pilots of World War II engaged in a kind of battle that became the stuff of legend. They cut through the sky in their P-38s to go one-on-one against the enemy—and those who survived the deadly showdowns with enough courage and skill earned...
Marines on New Britain
Cape Gloucester and Rabaul. A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The Guadalcanal-blooded 1st Marine Division’s assault on Cape Gloucester in western New Britain on December 26, 1943, was unconnected to the preceding seventeen-month slog along the nearby Solomon Islands chain. Nor did it have anything to do with the neutralization of the Japanese naval and air...
American Amphibious Gunboats in World War II
A History of LCI and LCS(L) Ships in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore...
NINE YANKS AND A JERK
The incredible saga of one of the most legendary planes in the U.S. 8th Air Force flown by Major James M. Stewart and the aircrews under his command in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
NEWLY UPDATED. WORLD WAR II 70TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE EDITION. Foreward written by Eric Shawn, Fox News Anchor and Senior Correspondent. Newly added photos, graphics, and expanded pages included. 'Can an airplane embody the American spirit of freedom? The lumbering B-24, "Nine Yanks and...
US Patrol Torpedo Boats
World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK. Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s, and the vessels first saw service during World War I. However, it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy commenced the development of the Patrol Torpedo or PT boat. The PT boat was designed for attacking larger...
The Ship That Wouldn't Die
The Saga of the USS Neosho- A World War II Story of Courage and Survival at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
An acclaimed naval historian tells one of the most inspiring sea stories of World War II: the Japanese attack on the American oiler USS Neosho and the gutsy crew’s struggle for survival as their slowly sinking ship drifted—lost, defenseless, and alone—on the treacherous Coral Sea.
In...
Undersea Warrior
The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
No man above or below the waves was as admired--or feared--as this determined naval commander...
Among submariners in World War II, Dudley "Mush" Morton stood out as a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completely changed the way the sea war was fought in the Pacific. He...