World War Ii category: 7796 books
Sowing the Seeds of Victory
American Gardening Programs of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back. Gardening activity during American involvement in World War I (1917–1919) is vital to understanding current work in agriculture and food systems. The origins of the American Victory Gardens of World War II lie in the Liberty Garden program during World...
by Briton C Busch
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
AmericaÆs curiosity about elite military units is greater than ever in todayÆs crisis-ridden world. And while numerous books have examined the various elite forces, Bunker Hill to Bastogne goes much further to show the relationship between these special units and the societies that gave birth to them....
Allies and Adversaries
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military...
Nazi Germany
History Examined
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Understand the rise of a dangerous ideology.
There is renewed interest in the Nazi Party that ruled Germany as a fascist state from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. However, the events that led to the rise of Nazism-and the near victory of the Axis Powers in World War II-date...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This paper analyzes the operational environment to argue that competent stability operations are the most effective means to influence the population-centric vulnerabilities of prevalent adversaries....
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The German Army used tanks to devastating effect in their Blitzkrieg campaigns during the early years of the Second World War and in the intense defensive battles leading up to final defeat in 1945. It may be a surprise to many that the Japanese Army had more tanks than Nazi Germany in 1938; these...
Up Close And Personal
The Reality of Close-Quarter Fighting in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This gripping book is about what it was really like to fight at the sharp end in World War II. In 1947, US General S. L. A Marshall controversially wrote that out of every one hundred combat soldiers only fifteen to twenty-five actually fired their weapons at the enemy, because of the innate human...
The Daring Dozen
12 Special Forces Legends of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In this new book, Gavin Mortimer reveals the 12 legendary Special Forces commanders of World War II. Prior to the war, the concept of 'special forces' simply didn't exist, but thanks to visionary leaders like David Stirling and Charles Hunter, our very concept of how wars can be fought and won has...
by Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC
THE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War.
Lord...
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race
The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.
--Gladys Carter,...
Darkest Before Dawn
U-482 and the Sinking of Empire Heritage 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The full story of one of the greatest Allied shipping losses of World War II For the first time, this book describes how U-482 managed to slip undetected into the busy shipping lanes of the North Channel and carry out the last great U-boat patrol of the war. In the autumn of 1944 World War II was...
Kangaroo Squadron
American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single U.S. Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy.
Based in Australia with inadequate supplies and no ground support,...
British Battleship vs Italian Battleship
The Mediterranean 1940–41
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2020
During World War II's battle for control of the Mediterranean, both the British and Italian navies planned to bring their battle fleets into play. At the centre of both of these fleets was a core of battleships which both sides expected to play a decisive role in the conflict.
On 9 July 1940,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military publication explores in depth America's military involvement in East and Southeast Asia.The choice of topic for the Ninth Military History Symposium was based on the observation that comparatively...