World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Robert Forczyk
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army during World War II even though his actual job title varied from day to day. Serving as a senior General Staff representative from the Stavka, Zhukov moved from one critical sector to the next, serving as advisor, coordinator and de facto front commander...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This unique volume represents an attempt "to clarify the relationship between air power and maneuver warfare since 1939, a subject that derives its importance from the fact that maneuver warfare has been the Army's official doctrine since the early eighties...[it will help the reader learn] about...
When Tigers Ruled the Sky
The Flying Tigers: American Outlaw Pilots over China in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
From the acclaimed author of Hit the Target and Big Week, an in-depth account of the legendary World War II combat group, the Flying Tigers.
In 1940, Pearl Harbor had not yet happened, and America was not yet at war with Japan. But China had been trying to stave off Japanese aggression for...
by Dr Stephen Bull
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This book describes and illustrates, in fascinating detail, the slow and painful learning curve followed by the Allies in the mid-war years as they attempted to end the Japanese stranglehold on Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Based on the actual wartime training documents and front-line memoirs, it...
The Cooler King
The True Story of William Ash, the Greatest Escaper of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
When American fighter pilot William Ash’s plane was shot down over France in 1942, he was captured by German forces and placed in a Nazi prison camp. Ash, bolstered by the grit and ingenuity he developed during his upbringing in Texas during the Great Depression, would spend the rest of the war...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Red Army suffered such catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The first batches arrived in late 1941, just in time to take part in the defence of Moscow. The supplies of British tanks encompassed a very wide range of types...
by Frank J. Irgang
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
First published in 1949, Frank J. Irgangs personal record of his unforgettable experiences as a combat infantryman during World War II has its beginning on the dawn of that famous longest day when Allied troops set foot on Normandy beaches. We know the surface facts of that invasionwhat was planned,...
Man Who Didn't Shoot Hitler
The Story of Henry Tandey VC and Adolf Hitler, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The true story behind the "man who spared Hitler's life" during World War IThis is a book about two men. The first is Henry Tandey: an ordinary man, born and brought up in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, who displayed extraordinary courage to emerge from World War I as the most decorated...
Fighter Group
The 352nd "Blue-Nosed Bastards" in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Jay Stout breaks new ground in World War II aviation history with this gripping account of one of the war's most highly decorated American fighter groups.
Flying Flak Alley
Personal Accounts of World War II Bomber Crew Combat
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country’s largest cities. The guts and glory of the bomber crews came, however, with a high casualty rate which had only improved marginally by the war’s end....
The Heroes of Rimau
Unravelling the Mystery of One of World War II's Most Daring Raids
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
On September 11, 1944, the British submarine "Porpoise" slipped quietly from Fremantle Harbour, bound for Indonesia. It was carrying the 23 Australian and British members of Operation Rimau who, under the leadership of the remarkable Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders,...
The Battle for Rome
The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until Allied forces liberated the ancient city. During those 270 days, clashing factions -- the occupying Germans, the Allies, the growing resistance movement, and the Pope -- contended for control...
Fog of War
The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home. It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping stone to the modern civil...
Ministers at War
Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great...