World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was one of the truly world class piston-engined fighters of World War II. This reputation rests largely with the E and F variants, which bore the brunt of the Luftwaffe's most important operations in World War II and shot down tens of thousands of Allied aircraft in the Battle...
Panzer I & II
Blueprint for Blitzkrieg 1933–1941
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Panzer I and II played a significant part in the blitzkrieg campaigns that brought Germany such extraordinary success in the early years of the Second World War, and this highly illustrated volume in the TankCraft series is the ideal introduction to them.
The Treaty of Versailles forbade...
by Meg Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Long before Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, Milwaukee was the "Machine Shop to the World." Thanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Harley-Davidson produced thousands of military motorbikes, and Falk Corporation churned...
Playing with the Enemy
A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
A memoir of fathers and sons, baseball, a world at war, and second chances. “I loved [it]. You will, too” (Jim Morris, author of The Oldest Rookie).
Gene Moore was a small-town Illinois farm boy whose passion for “America’s Pastime” made him a local legend. It wasn’t long before...
Italy's Sorrow
A Year of War, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
During the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe - a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country's mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino and along the notorious Gothic Line were as high as they had been...
Si Lewen's Parade
An Artist's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Si Lewen’s Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country—a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957, The Parade is a lost classic, newly discovered, remastered, and presented by Art Spiegelman,...
Storm on the Horizon
The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.S. history. In Storm on the Horizon, prominent historian Justus D. Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional...
My Boyhood War
Warsaw 1944
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
My Boyhood War, Warsaw 1944 is an intensely personal account of Hryniewicz' life in Poland during the Second World War, centered primarily on the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944. Despite being the longest urban battle between lightly armed irregular forces and the most professional Army of its day...
Life and Death in the Garden
Sex, Drugs, Cops, and Robbers in Wartime China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This compelling book provides a rare glimpse into the heart of wartime China. Kathryn Meyer draws us into the perilous world of the Garden of Grand Vision, a ramshackle structure where a floating population of thousands found shelter from the freezing Siberian winter. They had come to the northern...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
**20th Century War and Misery.
The suicide of Hitler’s niece, the assassinations of Malcolm X and Franz Ferdinand, the Battle of the Somme and Stalingrad, and the betrayal of Anne Frank – these are some of the stories you’ll find in Rupert Colley’s new collection of articles, The Savage...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Europe in the twentieth century witnessed the large-scale displacement and mass murder of civilian populations because of their ethnic or national identity. Genocide is the ultimate expression...
by Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book gives a counterpoint history – wry, keen-eyed, sometimes disgruntled – of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. It draws on the diary of an officer who knew its airfields and scarred beachheads, and its narrative is wrapped around a scandal...
Armored Thunderbolt
The U.S. Army Sherman in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II. Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger. Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor.
World War I: The Essential Reference Guide
The Essential Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
With its authoritative reference entries, multiple introductory and perspective essays, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and bibliography, this single-volume reference provides all the key information readers need to understand this monumental conflict.
• Includes perspective...