World War Ii category: 7796 books
Vercors 1944
Resistance in the French Alps
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI (Forces Françaises d'Intérieur), during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of...
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, new cruisers were designed with increasingly heavy antiaircraft weaponry as well as the traditional 6in guns. With the speed and range to keep up with aircraft...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The invasion of Normandy is widely used by military professionals and historians to draw examples of successes or failures from this complex operation. While the Normandy invasion ultimately...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard suffered near collapse in the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest in November 1944 but recovered in time to delay a German force eight...
Between Silk and Cyanide
A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2001
In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive...
Evansville
The World War II Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
World War II changed the face of Evansville, Indiana. In December 1941, the city was still recovering from the Great Depression, yet within three months, a series of blockbusterannouncements transformed the region. Several corporations received major defense contracts to manufacture parts and ammunitions,...
by Graeme Boocock
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, and a young Canadian working at the experimental gardens in Craibstone, Scotland, voluntarily enlisted in the Royal Air Force. These are the memoirs of my late grandfather, Don Cameron, Lancaster bomber pilot with RAF Squadron 115 based at Witchford, Cambridgeshire,...
America's Commandos
U.S. Special Operations Forces of World War II and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2001
America deployed a diverse group of special operations forces (SOF) throught World War II and in Korea. These elite units quickly earned a redoubtable reputation and proved themselves adept at hit-and-run raids, gathering intelligence in long range patrols, rescuing PoWs and living and fighting in...
The Dresden Firebombing
Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre. Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and...
Detours
A Memoir of a Railroad Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Learn about Gail F. Meintzer's philosophies from lessons learned the hard way, as he took the long road less traveled on the iron highway.
Travel with Gail F. Meintzer as he journeys with the railroad system from Deerfield, Illinois to Milwaukee, Wisconsin across the plains to Seattle, Washington...
Turning Point
The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, Japan's soldiers had seemed unstoppable. However, the tide was about to turn.
On Sunday, 6 September 1942, Japanese land forces suffered their first conclusive defeat at the hands of the Allies. At Milne...
by Pier Paolo Battistelli
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
What happened and why at one of the most decisive World War II victories The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. El Alamein saw two of the greatest generals of the war pitted against each other: Rommel and Montgomery. Through key...
Hitler's Wave-Breaker Concept
An Analysis of the German End Game in the Baltic
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany’s strategy in the north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war turned, and gigantic Russian armies began to close in on Berlin. In this long-awaited work, Henrik Lunde—former U.S. Special Forces officer and author...
Southwest Passage
The Yanks in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur’s arrival...