World War Ii category: 7796 books
Hell's Battlefield
The Australians in New Guinea in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea during World War II, from invasion in 1942 to the brutal end game in 1945. Besides giving new perspectives on the Kokoda campaign, the book covers the battles that preceded and those...
The Missing Pages
From the History Book of World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book contains fascinating behind-the-scenes stories that were left off the history pages of World War IIpersonal experiences and episodes that were never completely revealed before, sometimes on purpose, covered up or just plain fabricated. You will find this rare collection of war stories quite...
Hidden Warbirds
The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering, and Rebuilding WWII's Lost Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
"If you only have room in your collection for one book on WWII-era warbird wreck histories and recoveries, then it should be this one. Nicholas Veronico’s thorough research and clear, concise writing style makeHidden Warbirdsa fascinating joy to read." -Alan Griffith, author ofConsolidated...
The American Axis
Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh have long been exalted as two of the greatest American icons of the twentieth century. From award-winning journalist Max Wallace comes groundbreaking and astonishing revelations about the poisonous effect these two so-called American heroes had on Western democracy....
by Tom Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was chief prosecutor for what the Associated Press said was the largest murder trial in history. This biography of the last living Nuremberg...
by Al Cimino
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A huge column of blood red smoke rose a thousand feet as the battleship USS Arizona blew up. The USS Oklahoma capsized. The California, Nevada and West Virginia were all sunk at their moorings. 181 Japanese warplanes had attacked the US Pacific Fleet as it lay at anchor in Pearl Harbor. There had...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
For two weeks in the summer of 1945, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Josef Stalin gathered to reconstruct the world out of the ruins of World War II. They met "only a few miles," as President Truman noted, "from the war-shattered seat of Nazi power" - around a baize-covered...
by Randolph L. Braham
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The capture of Adolf Eichmann and the subsequent dispute between Israel and Argentina before the Security Council of the United Nations have aroused new interest in the history of Nazi Germany in general and of its anti-Jewish policies in particular. This interest gained momentum as the preparations...
Why Britain is at War
With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world"
First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with Germany. In simple terms it...
Foot Soldier For Patton The Story Of A "Red Diamond" Infantryman With The U.S. Third Army
The Story of a "Red Diamond" Infantryman with the U.S. Third Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II . . .A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A Foot Soldier for Patton takes the reader from the beaches of Normandy through the giddy drive across France, to the brutal battles on the Westwall, in...
One Square Mile of Hell
The Battle for Tarawa
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
The riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Marines fought the Japanese nearly to the last man.
In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio, a speck at...
Clash of The Carriers
The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
The incredible true story of the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history—World War II’s Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.
“Superb... the greatest naval air battle of all time finally receives the meticulous and comprehensive treatment it deserves.”—Richard Frank, author of...
The Deadly Brotherhood
The American Combat Soldier in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his book Men Against Fire, [historian S. L. A.] Marshall asserted that only 15 to 25 percent of American soldiers ever fired their weapons in combat in World War II. . . .
Shooting at the enemy made a man part of the “team,” or “brotherhood.” There were, of course, many times when soldiers...
All This Hell
U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it happened to us. People should know what we endured. People should know what we can endure."" -- Lt. Col. Madeline Ullom More than one...