World War Ii category: 7796 books
by J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.S. war effort before D-Day. Sidebars on patrols, service troops, the replacement system, Rangers, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans.
Atlantic Escorts
Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to north America had been cut, Britain would never have survived; there could have been no build-up of US and Commonwealth forces, no...
The Origins of World War Two
The Debate Continues
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
No issue in modern history has been more intensively studied, or subject to wider interpretation, than the origins of the Second World War. A conflict involving three - arguably four - major aggressor Powers, operating simultaneously but largely separately on two continents, inevitably raises complex...
The Trial of Pierre Laval
Defining Treason, Collaboration and Patriotism in World War II France
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in World War II that continues to haunt the present. Architect in 1940 of Marshal Petain's Vichy French regime and its prime minister from April 1942 to August...
Long Ago and Far Away
Hollywood and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The Second World War was the greatest social, political, and economic upheaval of the 20th century. As a popular Hollywood subject, WWII still enthralls viewers six decades after Allied commanders affixed their signatures on the victory document in Tokyo Bay. Recreating flag-waving charges, frontal...
by John A. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By any measure, the battles of Bataan and Corregidor were among the most intensely fought and devastating episodes in the World War II Pacific theater. Beginning in early 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines in an attempt to control the Pacific region and expand its sphere of influence....
Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis
Combat Missions over Europe during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, historian Kevin A. Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of the crucial role played by this air force from November 1943 through May 1945. Presented by month in chronological order, Mahoney describes all...
Monte Cassino
Ten Armies in Hell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino should stand among them. Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a medieval monastery, it was an astonishingly brutal...
Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
The Myths of Churchill's War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame
Gordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant, caustic narrative that exposes just...
by James Beardon
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
During the lead up to and over the course of World War II, London was a city transformed as it simultaneously became the front line and the command center of Allied operations. The scale and speed of the city’s transformation has been unparalleled in London’s history as the government requisitioned...
The General Who Wore Six Stars
The Inside Story of John C. H. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee wore six stars on his helmet, three in front and three in back—an unusual affectation. He was a stickler for discipline and a legendary military figure whom servicemen and historians loved to hate. Yet Lee was an intensely religious person and an advocate of opportunity for...
Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp
Life and Liberation at Santo Tomas, Manila, in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila’s Santo Tomás prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities. Placing the camp’s story in the wider history of the Pacific war, this book tells how the camp went through a drastic change,...
Air Combat 1945
The Aircraft of World War II's Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The final year of World War II witnessed the decline of the piston-engine fighter and the beginning of the jet age. Taking to the skies were tried-and-true fighters, improved versions of old aircraft, and newly developed jets, including prototypes that flew for the first time just before the war ended.
Glider Infantryman
Behind Enemy Lines in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in a flimsy plywood-and-canvas glider on the battlefields of Holland, and survived the grim siege with the "Battling...