Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 264 p. The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a new offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.S. Marines. The sudden American proclivity for bold amphibious assaults into the teeth of prepared defenses astonished Japanese commanders. This is the story of...
Washington: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1996. — 52 p. Daybreak on 29 May 1945 found the 1st Marine Division beginning its fifth consecutive week of frontal assault as part of the U.S. Tenth Army's grinding offensive against the Japanese defenses centered on Shun Castle in southern Okinawa. Operation Iceberg, the campaign to seize Okinawa, was now two months old — and badly...
Simon and Schuster, 1997. — 512 p. From the bestselling author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day, the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, comes the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitter rest days of the war. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the...
Greenheel Books; Stackpole Books, 2000. — 72 p. — (The G.I. Series). — ISBN: 1-85367-426-5. In this brilliantly illustrated book, Christopher Anderson examines the uniforms and insignia worn by the United States Marine Corps in World War II. Marines were particularly distinguished, earning a superb reputation for daring amphibious assaults, and at Guadalcanal, Bougainville,...
Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 1995. — 31 p. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans,...
U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1995. — 36 p. — ISBN10: 0160451124 ISBN13: 9780160451126. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and...
How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery. — Princeton, 2015. — 256 p. In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs — including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey — landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with...
Cassell, 2007. - 229 p. The battle of Midway ranks not just as one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, but also as one of the most important naval battles in history. Over a three-day period in June 1942, a force of three American carriers changed the course of the war in the Pacific theater by sinking the core of the Japanese strike fleet. The decisive nature of...
Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1945. - 8 pgs. From a copy now in the Cornelius Ryan Collection, Ohio University, this is an official report by two officers of the U.S. 5th Armored Division who were ordered to make contact with the opposite Russian forces at the Elbe in 1945. After completion of their mission they, with their Chinese-American driver, made a sidetrack to...
Brigadier General, USA - 24 p. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has...
Center of Military History of the United States Army, 1993. — 630 p. The Debate over the Southern France The Protagonists Trident, May 1943 Another Look at Southern France The Quadrant Conference The Cairo and Tehran Conferences Anvil Canceled Anvil Restored Churchill ’s Last Stand Command and Organization The High-Level Command Structure The 6th Army Group and the First French...
Washington, Office of Air Force History, 1983. — 912 p. Volume Six. Serial: Men And Planes. In March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the I Director of the Bureau of the Budget ordering each war agency to prepare “an accurate and objective account” of that agency’s war experience. Soon after, the Army Air Forces began hiring professional historians so that its...
Chelsea House, 2009. — 128 p. When December 7, 1941, dawned in Hawaii, no one expected that by the end of the day, the U.S. Pacific Fleet would lie in ruins and the United States would be at war. That morning, in just over an hour and a half, the planes of the Japanese First Carrier Striking Force sank or severely damaged 18 American warships lying at anchor at the Pearl Harbor...
US Army in World War II. In English. Special operations in the mediterranean. Special operations in the european theater. Special operations in the pacific. Special operations in the china-burma-india theater.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 256 p. ISBN10: 1849087164 ISBN13: 9781849087162 (eng) On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was...
Center of Military History United States Army, 1990. — 145 p. ASIN: B000B55AD6 Guam: Operations of the 77th Division (21 July-10 August 1944) is one of a series of fourteen studies of World War II operations originally published by the War Department’s Historical Division and now returned to print as part of the Army’s commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous...
A National Historic Landmarks Theme Study, 2007. — 198 p. Historic Contexts Mobilization and its Impact The American Family on the Home Front Labor and the Working Class in World War II African Americans and Other Minorities on the Home Front Associated Property Types Types of Historic Home Front Properties Registration Requirements for National Historic Landmark Designation...
Berkeley, California: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1985. — 109 p. — (China Research Monograph 27). China Research Monographs have been published since 1967 and now include well over sixty titles. Since 1978, the series has come out under co-sponsorship with the Institute of East Asian Studies. David Dean Barrett (1892–1977) was an American soldier,...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 294 p. The literature on American entry into World War II is rich and abundant but mostly segmented, concerned with particular topics, regions, or relationships. Histories of the Pearl Harbor attack, for example, form a world in themselves. Yet world politics was not compartmentalized. The cataclysmic changes in the configuration of world power...
Dutton Caliber, 2016. — 676 p. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States was wakened from its slumber of isolationism. To help him steer the nation through the coming war, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the greatest “team of rivals” since the days of Lincoln: Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Admiral Ernest J. King, and General George C. Marshall. Together,...
New York: Routledge/Taylor&Francis, 2018. — 295 p. Crucible of a Generation tells the story of the fifteen days surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the pages of eight leading American newspapers. Focusing on publications such as The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, J. Kenneth Brody paints a vivid picture of U.S. political culture and society at a...
U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1991. — 26 p. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a...
U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1996. — 28 p. ISBN10: 0160481341 ISBN13: 9780160481345 (eng) World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and...
Wilderness Press, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0899974750. In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra find the mummified remains of a man in a WW II uniform, entombed in the ice. The "Frozen Airman" discovery creates a media storm which draws author Peter Stekel to investigate and stumble upon the case of a navigation training flight crew...
Twelve, 2018. — 496 p. — ISBN: 978-1455567485. From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and saboteurs; of Nazi, Fascist, and Communist...
Iowa City, Iowa Wednesday, January 27. President Inspects American Contingent in French Morocco Chief Executive, Churchill Agree on '43 War Plans 12 000 Hazis Trapped at SIalingrad Killed-Captured Washington in' Wartime
Casemate Publishing, 2011. - 480 p. ISBN: 161200010X The December 7th, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has been portrayed by historians as a dazzling success, brilliantly conceived and meticulously planned. With most American historians concentrating on command errors and the story of participants’ experiences, the Japanese attack operation has never been subjected to a...
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