World War Ii category: 7796 books
Tarawa
The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
As WWII raged, US Marines engaged with Japanese soldiers on the islands of the Tarawa Atoll—deep in the central Pacific—in a truly hellish battle.
In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific Theater. But none were as deadly, as...
The War Below
The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
“Beautifully researched and masterfully told” (Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from the Deep), this is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific.
Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s...
Unsung Eagles
True Stories of America’s Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
The nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories.
Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed...
Behind Japanese Lines
With the OSS in Burma
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the Father of Central Intelligence,” with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road...
The Enemy I Knew
German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Even Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, struggles with the question: Why didn’t the Jews fight back? And finally, in view of the circumstances--even now, who would believe what was happening?--he concludes that the question is “not why all the Jews did NOT...
by Rick Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy is now together in one boxed set
From the War in North Africa to the Invasion of Normandy, the Liberation Trilogy recounts the hard fought battles that led to Allied victory in World...
No Greater Ally
The Untold Story of Poland’s Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire nation have been forgotten, and even intentionally obscured. Giving a full overview of Poland's participation in World War II. Following their valiant but doomed defence of Poland in 1939,...
Winston Churchill
War Leader
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Winston Churchill was a soldier, writer, and politician and, after World War II, he became one of the world's greatest statesmen. But his reputation rests on his role as a war leader and, in particular, on the period between May 1940 and July 1941, when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany. Since...
The Longest Winter
The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions
On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached...
Eyewitness to World War II
Guadalcanal Diary, Invasion Diary, and John F. Kennedy and PT-109
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Three classic accounts of WWII from a reporter who “shaped America’s understanding of the war, and influenced every account that came after” (Mark Bowden).
Volunteer combat correspondent Richard Tregaskis risked life and limb to give American readers a soldier’s–eye view of the Second...
Refighting the Pacific War
An Alternative History of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Refighting the Pacific War presents the viewpoints of more than thirty historians, authors, and veterans regarding what happened and what might have happened if events in the Pacific had unfolded differently during World War II. Contributors to this alternative history include the noted military historians...
by Duncan Anderson, Lloyd Clark, Stephen Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The conflict on the Eastern Front in World War II was colossal in both scale and intensity, as the two infamous dictators of the twentieth century Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin vied for supremacy in Eastern Europe. On 22 June 1941 it was Hitler's fateful decision to launch the largest invasion ever...
From Texas to Rome with General Fred L. Walker
Fighting World War II and the Italian Campaign with the 36th Infantry Division, as seen through the Eyes of its Commanding General
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This remarkable and very rare memoir discusses the bloody combat history of the Texas National Guard 36th Infantry Division in World War II, from pre-embarkation training through the capture of Rome. The perspective, as seen through the eyes of its author, General Fred Walker, is refreshing for its...
Smoky the Brave
How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest--and arguably bravest--dog of World War II
In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to overwhelm New Guinea, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire Terrier was discovered hiding in the island's thick jungles. A total mystery...