World War Ii category: 7796 books
Marching Orders
The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The “extraordinarily informed” account of how US cryptographers broke Japan’s Purple cipher to change the course of World War II (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Marching Orders tells the story of how the American military’s breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes during World...
World War II Letters
A Glimpse into the Heart of the Second World War Through the Eyes of Those Who Were Fighting It
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2003
Writers from twenty Allied and Axis countries are gathered in this unique collection of letters from servicemen and -women to their friends, families, and sweethearts. World War II Letters gives an unbiased look into the lives of those who served throughout the world-in Europe, the Pacific, Northern...
The German Aces Speak II
World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWII’s most noteworthy German pilots.
When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine welcomed Colin Heaton’s and Anne-Marie Lewis’s masterful command of interview-based...
by Leonard James
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
An ebook containing eyewitness accounts of the RAF’s first big night raid on Germany. Complete with explanatory text and background on the men and machines involved.By March 1940 World War II was six months old and yet the RAF had still not launched a major night raid on Germany. They had been...
by Martin Folly, Niall Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice it was drawn into 'foreign entanglements'_wars it initially thought were no concern of its own and of which it tried to steer clear_only to realize that it...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Truman, FDR, and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes Truman's most colorful quotes about politics, the Republican Party, and Richard Nixon*Includes a Table of Contents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt might be Americas greatest 20th century president, but theres...
Scientific Research In World War II
What scientists did in the war
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II.
No scientist remained unaffected by the outbreak of WWII. As the book shows, there were basically two opposite ways in which the war encroached...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. As early as World War I, the United States possessed a vision for how to eliminate the propensity of interstate warfare. Actually achieving this vision proved difficult until after World War...
Wings of War
Great Combat Tales of Allied and Axis Pilots During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Experience the exciting combat tales of both Allied and Axis pilots around the world during World War II! Wings of War encompasses the World War II air war from late 1939 through 1945 and provides a chronological snapshot not only of famous and significant events from the global air war, but also...
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume II: 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the second of three volumes covering the U-boat campaign in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939...
The Best War Ever
America and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In September 1918, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) concluded its campaign in Palestine by routing the Turkish forces at the battle of Megiddo. Under command of British general Allenby,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Throughout history, opposed river crossing operations have proven to be some of the bloodiest and most complex endeavors for any military force. However, due to a sixty-year lull in having...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a military and political struggle between Left and Right-wing factions in Spain. Despite the likelihood the Spanish Civil War would lead to a larger war in Europe, pro-democracy countries chartered a course of nonintervention and isolationism. It remains one of...