World War Ii category: 7796 books
Surviving the Reich
The World War II Saga of a Jewish-American GI
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Ivan Goldstein is a 19-year-old green-as-grass soldier heading into his first battle: the Battle of the Bulge, World War II's fiercest engagement between the American army and Hitler's army. A bow gunner on a Sherman tank, Private Goldstein is only hours into his first battle when his tank is hit...
The 250Th Field Artillery Men Remember World War Ii
The 250Th Adapted to the Artillery Trademark: Shoot-Move-And-Communicate
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
The war memories for each were not easy to tell or write, for some had repressed them long ago. We have been able to live the American Dream through dedicated soldiers as the 250th Field Artillerymen. They spent many nights together away from home with ties that would bind them together that has never...
Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw?s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world?s six major powers made a series of...
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan
Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called "a first-class historian," here is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular rescue operations in history. On January 30, 1945, American troops staged a successful raid on Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW...
Bombs Away!
The World War II Bombing Campaigns over Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Bombs Away! covers strategic bombing in Europe during World War II, that is, all aerial bombardment of a strategic nature which took place between 1939 and 1945. In addition to American (U.S. Army Air Forces) and British (RAF Bomber Command) strategic aerial campaigns against Germany, this book covers...
Commando
Special Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Commando', the history Commandos and small-scale raids during World War II, is a gripping narrative, tracing the actions of the fearless men who served as Allied commandos for the Combined Operations department during the war. Kenneth Macksey offers the details of St Nazaire, Bruneval, Dieppe as well...
The Bloody Forest
Battle for the Hurtgen: September 1944-January 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The definitive account of one of World War II’s bloodiest campaigns—the five-month battle between American and German forces in the Huertgen Forest—told through the words of the men who were there.
From the preface:
“In the course of research and interviews while writing a series...
by Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
June 6, 1944, D-Day: Allied forces took the beaches at Normandy—and the naval engineering genius of Edward Ellsberg would play a crucial part.
Before World War II, Edward Ellsberg had already established himself as a true innovator and master naval engineer, revolutionizing the salvage and...
Patton's Panthers
The African-American 761st Tank Battalion In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African-American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations set upon them by others -- proving themselves as tough, reliable, and determined to fight...
Knight's Cross Panzers
The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
• First time in English
• Unit history of a tank regiment on the Eastern Front
• Relies on firsthand accounts, after-action reports, letters, diaries, and newspapers
Join the German soldiers of the 35th Tank Regiment as they drive their tanks into battle from the beginning of World War II to...
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold story of a teenager whose act of defiance would have dire international consequences.
On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and...
Code Name: Lise
The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
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by Steve Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and Alive
For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail. Author Steve Snyder’s story of his father, Lieutenant Howard Snyder, and the Susan Ruth crew, provides in-depth details...
Onward We Charge
The Heroic Story of Darby's Rangers in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
**“A terrific read.”—Larry Alexander, New York Times Bestselling Coauthor of A Higher Call
Colonel William Darby was a hero by anyone's standards. His elite battalion of Army Rangers paved the way for Ranger success in subsequent wars—and left an unforgettable legacy in its wake.**
On...