World War Ii category: 7796 books
Panzer II vs 7TP
Poland 1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Hitler's lightning invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. This was the period when armoured warfare inscribed itself into global consciousness as the Poles desperately sought to stave off the Blitzkrieg. At the heart of the fighting on the ground, large numbers...
Fighting The Bombers
The Luftwaffe's Struggle Against the Allied Bomber Offensive (World War II German Debriefs)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Fighting the Bombers is an unrivaled look at the Allied bombing campaign from the point of view of the Luftwaffe establishment and command. The contributing authors were involved in all aspects of German attempts to stem the unrelenting bombardment from the RAF and USAAF; from tactics in the sky and...
Tobruk 1942
Rommel and the Defeat of the Allies
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
For a period during World War II, the isolated Libyan fortress of Tobruk captured the world's attention. Why did the Allied defenders of Tobruk successfully hold out against Rommel for 9 months in 1941, when they fell to Axis forces in just 24 hours the following year? Tobruk was one of the greatest...
The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe
The U.S. Army Air Forces Against Germany in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Dramatic story of World War II in the air. How the U.S. built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force. Vivid accounts of aerial combat.
by Evan Mawdsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these dramatic events marked a turning point not only in the...
Behind the Lines
The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This is the story of special operations in the second world war as it has never been told before--directly by those who took part.
Compiled by Russell Miller from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts--many unpublished until now--the oral history in Behind the...
Which People's War?
National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public documents, it explores such questions as: who...
by David Ford
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
On January 14, 1942, Col. Andrew D. Bruce announced that the location of the new Tank Destroyer Tactical Training and Firing Center was to be near Killeen, Texas. This announcement put into motion a whirlwind of activity and construction that resulted in the creation of one of the largest military...
by Donald Niewyk, Francis Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today.
Each...
Talabarske
The True Story of two brothers with one extraordinary bond finding life after ruin in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
May 1931. Their world spun into chaos. In a small Ukrainian village, two brothers, Iwan and Petro, lived a simple existence under the watchful eye of their parents. Until that day...that day the dark cloud of the Communist regime executed its stranglehold on the village, forcing a deliberate act of defiance...
Very Special Ships
Abdiel Class Fast Minelayers of World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. They operated not only as offensive minelayers – dashing into enemy waters under cover of darkness – but in many...
Kesselring's Last Battle
War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. He was held responsible for his troops having executed nearly 9,000 Italian citizens—women, children, elderly men—in retaliation for partisan attacks. His conviction, however, created...
The Original Tomcat
A Fletcher Destroyer Goes to War
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
At long last The Original Tomcat has found an everlasting home. Never again will the book be out of print and unavailable to those seeking it. In this respect, Xlibris is superior to traditional publishers. At Xlibris, a book with small or modest sales is not allowed to languish and die. From now...
German Heavy Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War
From Tiger to E-100
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
The German army faced tanks of superior size, armor and firepower from the outset of World War II. Although their Panzerwaffen handled the Polish campaign, war with France meant confronting superior heavy and medium tanks like the Char B and Somua, with 47 mm high velocity cannon that penetrated German...