World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Alfredo F. Vorshirm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium...
Prevail
The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean...
The Royal Air Force in Texas
Training British Pilots in Terrell during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
With the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States six civilian flight schools dedicated themselves to instructing RAF pilots; the first, No. 1 British Flying Training School...
Turning the Tide
How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the...
Weapons of Desperation
German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
As the Third Reich headed for destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons – midget submarines, radio-controlled explosive boats, and various forms of underwater sabotage.
This is one of the last un-chronicled areas of World War II naval history and this...
Shipmates
The Men of LCS 52 in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In late 1944, 78 U.S. Navy sailors and officers climbed aboard a ship just 150 feet long and 23 feet wide, and headed toward the sound of gunfire. One of a class of gunboats known as “mighty midgets,” LCS 52 carried an arsenal equal to ships twice its size. Yet its shallow draft enabled it to...
They Also Served
Women's Stories from the World War Ii Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
They Also Served is a collection of memories, bringing to life the experiences of women during World War II. None of the women profiled achieved great renownthese were the neighbors next door, the townspeople encountered at the post office or market, the ladies sharing the pews at worship services.
Unwilling...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Following Churchill's directive to 'set occupied Europe ablaze,' the SOE and later its American sister organization, the OSS, were deployed across the continent. Outnumbered, surrounded and in great peril, these brave agents were armed with a wide variety of devices to help them achieve their objectives,...
by Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Soviet armed forces during the final days of the war, covering the soldiers that successfully turned the tide against the Nazi onslaught and pushed it back into Germany itself. This final part of the series documents the Red Army's push through Germany...
by J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day. Sidebars on glider operations, rear-area activities, hedgerow country, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans.
The Last Battle
When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
The incredible story of the unlikeliest battle of World War II, when a small group of American soldiers joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troops
May, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble,...
Endkampf
Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned U.S. forces toward the heart of Franconia, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units...
by Alejandro de Quesada
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons. Portable and with folding stocks, both were widely issued to airborne troops and became the hallmark of Germany's infantry section and platoon leaders. A million were produced during the conflict –...
Free France's Lion
The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle’s Greatest General
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
But for his early death, many Frenchmen believe Leclerc would have been their greatest figure to emerge from World War II. De Gaulle himself admitted to his son-in-law that he gave up smoking when Leclerc died, in order to retain his health in case France needed him, because Leclerc was no longer...