World War Ii category: 7796 books
Pogue's War
Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
" With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume biography of General George C. Marshall....
by Ceil Stetson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Review by Claudia Pemberton for the Military Writers Society of AmericaIt's not often that a reader is privy to the intimate writings of an individual's diary and/or personal letters, but on the rare occasion that they are, it can make for a reading experience like none other. Such...
by Richard Alexander Hough, Denis Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2005
A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.
The victory of the Battle of Britain ranks with Marathon and the Marne as a decisive point in history. At the end of June 1940, having overrun much of Western Europe, the Nazi war leaders...
George S. Patton
On Guts, Glory, and Winning
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
George S. Patton: On Guts, Glory, and Winning relies on the writings, speeches, and poems of George Patton, and includes his prayer to stop the rain during the battle of northern Europe. What separates this book from all of the many about World War II’s most famous battle commander is the extensive...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Although women have served in defense of our country since the American Revolutionary War, women were not given full military status until World War II. Providing full military status to women had repercussions for the built environment of the country's military installations, especially as the government...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is the complete official version of the Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Personal Justice Denied, issued in December 1982, along with the Commission's recommendations,...
Collateral Damage
Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
"Collateral damage" is a military term for the inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations. In Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II, Sahr Conway-Lanz chronicles the history of America's...
Trio
Three War Correspondents of World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The first book to focus on the men behind the headlines of the famous "Trio" of World War II reportingTrio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their thirties, whose friendship was forged during World War II. They became so close that their...
G Company's War
Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1998
**This unique account of combat in World War II provides parallel day-to-day records of the same events as seen by two men in the same company, one an enlisted man, one an officer. **
G Company's War is the story of a World War II rifle company in Patton's Third Army as detailed in the journals...
by Jim Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2005
Imagine what it would be like to talk and fly with the men who flew the airplanes of World War II. What was in their minds as they made their first solos? And what was air combat like? Flying Through Time is the closest many of us will come to understanding what it was like to be a WWII aviator.Tens...
by W. Stanley Moss
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Afterword by Alan Ogden
"One of the finest memoirs of behind-the-lines work during the Second World War. Honest, powerful, and authentic."—Dr. Roderick Bailey, SOE author and historian
A War of Shadows is W. Stanley Moss’s sequel to his classic Ill Met by Moonlight....
The Tango War
The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" • A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September • One of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2018"
"Masterful...not only filled with engrossing history but includes a cast of characters who could be the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This collection of historical vignettes seeks to sharpen our understanding of Mission Command philosophy and practice by providing examples from the past in which Mission Command principles...
Double Crossed
The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II
What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services....