World War Ii category: 7796 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This is a comprehensive and massive compilation of reports, documents, and academic research papers about the life and career of Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States and commanding general of the Allied forces in World War II.These documents are professionally converted...
by The United States Military Academy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An outstanding new military history of the first half of World War II, featuring a rich array of images, exclusive graphics, superb new maps, and expert analysis commissioned by the United States Military Academy to teach the art of war to West Point cadets.
Since 1836, United States Military...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication presents a collection of the first thirty Harmon lectures given at the U.S. Air Force Academy with fascinating insights into various aspects of airpower and military history.In 1959 the...
The African American Press in World War II
Toward Victory at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Black journalists have vigorously exercised their First Amendment right since the founding of Freedom's Journal in 1827. World War II was no different in this regard, and Paul Alkebulan argues that it was the most important moment in the long history of that important institution. American historians...
by Brett Keith Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Laura Hillenbrand's second full-length focuses on the life of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic miler who became a war hero. His story has the ring of an Errol Flynn adventure flick (although Basil Rathbone would have made a bad Mutsuhiro Watanabe), and ever since his return...
World War II at Sea
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians...
Great Escapes of World War II
Tom Dick and Harry to Stalag to Colditz
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Great Escapes of World War II Tom Dick and Harry to Stalag to Colditz
Contents Introduction; The Laufen Six; Slawomir Rawicz: Hero or Hoaxer?; Airey Neave and Norman Forbes Escape from Thorn; Dulag Luft Tunnel; The Colditz Canteen Tunnel; The Theatre Bust: Airey Neave and Anthony Luteyn;...
Engineers of Victory
The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won.Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors...
How Hitler Could Have Won World War II
The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's influential personality...
A Curious Madness
An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
From an “illuminating and entertaining” (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men at the Tokyo war crimes trial that followed World War II: a Japanese nationalist charged with war crimes and the American doctor assigned to determine his sanity—and...
by Scott S. F. Meaker
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This is a short and Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission.
As a guide to understanding the enormity of the impact of the war, there were more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II. There were 60 other countries also...
The History Buff's Guide to World War II
Top Ten Rankings of the Best, Worst, Largest, and Most Lethal People and Events of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Did you know that neither Hitler nor Stalin graduated from high school? Or that the Allies often employed teenage girls as spies? In The History Buff's Guide to World War II, Thomas R. Flagel leaves no stone unturned as he presents dozens of top ten lists that examine the politics, leaders, and battles...
A People's History of World War II
The Worlds Most Destructive Conflict, As Told By the People Who Lived Through It
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The most destructive war in human history, World War II continues to generate an astonishingly rich trove of historical material, writings, and first-person recollections, which are essential to any appreciation of this most pivotal of historical events.
A People's History of World War II brings...
by James L Stokesbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War.
A...