Washington: War Department, Public Relations Bureau, 1942. — 72 p. Prepared for use with the War Department Orientation Course "These maps and graphs were prepared from civilian sources of information".
Washington: National Defense Research Committee, 1946. — 193 p. This first phase of U-boat warfare was greatly influenced by the rapidly changing overall military situation. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and England and France declared war on Germany on September 3. Some U-boats had left Germany early in August and when the war began there were about six at sea,...
McFarland, 2011 - 288 p. ISBN10: 0786460539 ISBN13: 9780786460533 (eng) Looting has long been recognized as one of the crimes committed by the Third Reich during World War II, a crime which stripped economic wealth and artistic treasures from the populations the Nazis terrorized. This historical text reveals the shocking extent of looting by Allied forces, exploring their...
Castle Books, 2002 - 226 p. ISBN10: 0785814205 ISBN13: 9780785814207 "The Forgotten Battle" has remained alive and vivid in the mind of its thousands of participants. This necessary and brilliantly crafted work examines the battles of Overloon and Maas Salient, the "other" side of WWII in Europe-a bloody slugging match between equally skilled opponents that comprised the...
Simon and Schuster, 1995. — 656 p. Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion were abandoned, and how ordinary soldiers and officers acted on their own...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. — 768 p. In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II. Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general’s skill as a diplomat and a military strategist...
Simon and Schuster, 1998. — 396 p. From historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive D-Day and...
Brill, 2010. — 496 p. Drawing on new research, this book provides the first comprehensive English-language account of the German assault on the Netherlands in May 1940. It presents fresh and incisive analyses of German and Dutch actions at tactical, operational and strategic levels.
Antony Beevor- Berlin The Downfall, 1945. Berlin in the New Year. The `House of Cards' on the Vistula. Fire and Sword and `Noble Fury. The Great Winter Offensive. The Charge to the Oder. East and West. Clearing the Rear Areas. Pomerania and the Oder Bridgeheads. Objective Berlin. o The Kamarilla and the General Staff. Preparing the Coup de Grice. Waiting for the Onslaught....
Volumen número 3 de la traduccion de la obra del italiano Arrigo Petacco editada en español por SARPE durante los años 1978_1980, que comprende 9 volúmenes.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 392 p. ISBN: 0-471-27393-7 Gerald Astor has rightfully acquired a reputation as one of today’s best oral history writers. Those knowledgeable of the fighting, events, and personalities of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater understand there is too much to discuss in a single volume. With that in mind, Astor focuses his book on a few key...
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 392 p. ISBN: 0-471-27393-7 Gerald Astor has rightfully acquired a reputation as one of today’s best oral history writers. Those knowledgeable of the fighting, events, and personalities of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater understand there is too much to discuss in a single volume. With that in mind, Astor focuses his book on a few key...
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 392 p. ISBN: 0-471-27393-7 Gerald Astor has rightfully acquired a reputation as one of today’s best oral history writers. Those knowledgeable of the fighting, events, and personalities of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater understand there is too much to discuss in a single volume. With that in mind, Astor focuses his book on a few key...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. - 681 pgs. An Army at Dawn is the first book in Atkinson’s trilogy about the liberation of western Europe during WWII. This book covers North Africa while forthcoming books will cover Italy and France. An Army at Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. This history book that flows extremely. It is an skillful marriage of storytelling and...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. - 681 pgs. An Army at Dawn is the first book in Atkinson’s trilogy about the liberation of western Europe during WWII. This book covers North Africa while forthcoming books will cover Italy and France. An Army at Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. This history book that flows extremely. It is an skillful marriage of storytelling and...
Holt Paperbacks, 2007. — 768 p. — (Liberation Trilogy). In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North AfricaThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this...
Holt Paperbacks, 2008. — 848 p. — (Liberation Trilogy). “A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”—The New York TimesIn An Army at Dawn — winner of the Pulitzer Prize — Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of...
Holt Paperbacks, 2013. — 896 p. — (Liberation Trilogy). — ISBN: 978-0-8050-6290-8. The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes...
Chicago Review Press, 2011. 272 p. Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent into occupied France and transferred crucial messages. Johtje Vos, a Dutch housewife, hid Jews in her home and repeatedly outsmarted the Gestapo. Law student Hannie Schaft became involved in the most dangerous resistance work-sabotage, weapons transference, and assassinations. In these...
Selected and prepared by The United Nations War crimes commission. — London: HM Stationary Office, 1947. — 172 p. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Wright of Durley Heading notes and summary Outline of the proceedings The Court The Charge Application By The Defence For The Severing Of The Two Charges Application By The Defence For Individual Trials Against Individual Accused...
Sterling, 2008. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1402740909. In a refreshingly fearless, colloquial voice, Axelrod recounts the key events of World War II with humanity and drama. The Real History of World War II remains authoritative, non-academic, and appealingly designed with illustrations and maps. Axelrod looks to the conflict’s ramifications, concisely exploring the war’s...
Arms and Armour, 1995. — 368 p. Describes Romania's role in World War II, first allied with the Nazis, and then fighting on the side of the Allies from mid-1944 onwards
London: Pluto Press, 2014. — 305 p. The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill by standing up to dictators. In The Second World War Chris...
Praeger Security International, 2007. — 269 p. Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de...
Skyhorse, 2014. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1629143941. World War II marked not only the end of a terrifying time in Europe, but also the dawning of many technological breakthroughs. In Weapons of World War II, written by the chief of the Research and Engineering Office of Ordnance, G. M. Barnes discusses the various weapons used during the war. Such topics include: Small arms and...
Cassell & Company Ltd., 2007. — 364 p. A collection of intimate portraits of the five men who lead the British Army through the battles of the African's Desert Campaign in 1940-1943: Richard O'Connor, Alan Cunningham, Neil Ritchie, Claude Auchinleck, and Field Marshall Montgomery. A comprehensive account of the Desert Campaign is provided. An outstanding contribution to the...
An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited Yorkshire – Philadelphia ISBN: 978 1 39907 036 2. The third is a three-part in-depth study and deals with Hitler’s influence on the Wehrmacht and how his decisions influenced the advancement of weapons technology in this pivotal era of the Second World War.
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 94 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-47385-687-5. Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of buildings were...
Pen & Sword, 2009. — 130 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-84884-072-0. The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation. 'Auschwitz Death Camp' is a chilling pictorial...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 218 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-78159-331-8. Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi’s most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS’s murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another disturbing side to them relaxing in their barracks or...
Pen & Sword, 2011. — 167 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-84884-381-3. The Final Days of the Reich is the latest in the popular Images of War series by Ian Baxter. Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions and text, this book is a compelling account of the final weeks of the Nazis' struggle for survival against overwhelming odds....
Pen & Sword, 2015. — 218 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-78159-388-2. Using many rare and unpublished images this book identifies and delves into the characters of the notorious men who were instrumental in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in World history. Through words and pictures the chilling truth emerges. In many respects these monsters were all too normal....
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1977. — 160 pgs. Winifred Beaumont volunteered on impulse for the army nursing service, and reluctantly went abroad. She was already an experienced field theatre nurse, and thus in the Far East in 1944 a valuable piece of woman-power. In army parlance she was a Detail, a nursing sister who could be sent wherever she was most needed. For...
London: Penguin Books, 2004. One. The Fall of Greece. Military Missions. Diplomatic Missions. Secret Missions. The Double Invasion. Across the Aegean. Two. The Battle of Crete. 'A Second Scapa'. 'The Spear-point of the German Lance'. 'Most Secret Sources'. 'A Fine Opportunity for Killing'. Maleme and Prison Valley. Close Quarters at Rethymno and Heraklion. First Night and...
The Research Department Air Command and Staff College, 1997. — 34 p. The United States war production capacity played a significant role in the Allied victory in World War II. The aircraft industry in particular rallied to mass produce thousands of aircraft to support the war efforts in both theaters. Mass production led to the dilemma of sacrificing quantity for quality. This...
Pen & Sword, 2003. — 303 p. — ISBN: 0850529891. Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progress between 1939 and 1945. He then deals with the war in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Battle of the River Plate, the struggle...
MacLehose Press, 2017. — 320 p. In the shadow of Mount Kenya, surrounded by the forests and creatures of the savannah, life drags interminably for the inmates of POW Camp 354, captured in Africa during World War II. Confined to an endless cycle of boredom and frustration, one prisoner realizes he can bear it no longer. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to...
New York: Viking Penguin, 2002. — 476 pgs. Bierman and Smith are, respectively, ex-BBC and ex-Observer correspondents currently based in Cyprus. Despite its U.S. title (the book goes by Alamein: War Without Hate in the U.K.), their popular account covers the entire three-year North African campaign. The descriptions of the battles are well-crafted and easily accessible to the...
Boston: Woodbridge, 1999. — 926 p. The "World War II: Almanac" provides students with the information they need to write reports and complete class assignments. "World War II: Biographies" profiles more than 30 men and women involved in the war and features 65 photographs and illustrations. "World War II: Primary Sources" allows students to study 16 speeches, diary entries,...
Dept. of the Army, 1994 - 28 p. Center of Military History Publication. Covers the Allied invasion of Sicily from July9 to August 17, 1943. Sicily was the first piece of the Axis homeland to fall to the Allies during World War 2. Includes a color map, black and white photographs, and suggestions for further reading.
Crown Books, 2001. — 536 p. Numbered people The IBM-Hitler intersection Identifying the Jews The IBM-Nazi alliance A nazi medal for Watson War cards Dedly count With Blitzkrieg efficiency The Gehomag revolt The struggle to stay in the Axis France and Holland IBM and the War Extermination The spoils of genocide Revelation and resposibility Major Sources
London; N. Y.: Routledge, 2003. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0-415-30534-9. World War Two was the sum of numerous related conflicts with their own causes, patterns and outcomes. This new and convincing survey takes a global perspective to explain the complicated course of the war in military terms. Jeremy Black provides fresh insights into the operations at the Eastern Front and the war...
Pen & Sword Military, 2006. — 192 p. — (Battleground Europe). In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944. Achieving complete surprise, the Allies made a successful landing at Anzio, but paused rather than pushing quickly inland, a delay which gave the Germans time to seal off the area and to...
Ian Allan, 2002. — 96 p. The theory of Blitzkrieg - lightning war - developed during the interwar years, but its true potential was only to be revealed in the autumn of 1939 when the German forces swept into Poland. For the next three years, in all theatres of the war, the German forces proved supreme, as their superiority of equipment, training and strategy resulted in a rapid...
Ian Allen, 2003. — 96 p. In the third of the series the author examines Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of Russia in 1942 and the campaign during the following year when the Axis forces renewed their offensive after the winter. The invasion of June 1941 was the largest operation undertaken by German forces during the war, comprising more than 100 army divisions and...
Ian Allen, 2003. — 96 p. This is part four of a series looking at the Second World War campaigns of the German Army. In this volume Fowler looks at the campaigns in the Balkans - the invasions of Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete and the first year of the German intervention in North Africa, from the arrival of the first German troops in February 1941 up to late October 1942 and the...
Ian Allen, 2003. — 96 p. If World War 1 was characterized, certainly on the Western Front, by the endless miles of trenches and the remarkable lack of mobility in the front line during more than four years of war, those military strategists who expected a similar war of attrition in any second conflict were to be confounded. World War 2 was to witness the triumph of offense...
New York: Franc Cass Press, 2004. — 176 p. Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational....
Amber Books, 2014. — 256 p. The military engagements and campaigns of World War II are emblazoned on mankind’s memory: from the Blitzkrieg attacks that smashed the Polish army in 27 days, and conquered Norway in a day, through the savage and sustained fighting of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front, to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. — IX, 270 p. — ISBN: 0-19-280224-0. The Second World War surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, most of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a scale never experienced till then, and from the psychological traumas of loss, of imprisonment and genocide, and permanent exile from...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 336 p. Did a German invasion or invasions take place along the shores of East Anglia in 1940? Though Operation ‘Sealion’, the intended invasion of southern England, never materialized, Hitler openly confided that 'even a small invasion might go a long way’, and asked that his forces might mount one, two or even three ‘small invasions’ in 1940. So...
MetroBooks, 2000. — 610 p. This new edition of a photographic history of World War II features 900 captioned images. It covers every major theatre of conflict and the people involved, capturing scenes of mass suffering and individual heroism, military conflict, portraits of leaders, and more. The text provides historical grounding by summarizing the many complex events of the...
Published by the National Archives and Records Administration, 2006. — 1717 p. This finding aid will help researchers interested in Japanese war crimes, war criminals, and war crimes trials to navigate the vast holdings of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park (NARA). It will also be useful to anyone interested in military, intelligence,...
John Wiley 8k Sons, 2000. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-0-471372-87-0. In this ingenious volume, victory or defeat in the twentieth century's climactic conflict depended on the secret war of wits that occurred between the scientists, mathematicians, and codebreakers on each side. This is a fascinating look at the behind the scenes duel to develop the winning weapons of World War II....
Penguin, 2009. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0141029856. They should put Montgomery and Patton and Rommel in the same ring and take off the gloves and let 'em go at it' Bill Mauldin, American GI In the Second World War, Great Britain, the United States and Germany each had one commander who stood out from the rest: Bernard Montgomery, George Patton and Erwin Rommel. In Masters of...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1986. — 33 p. This is a survival story of one family’s flight during World War II. In 1942, as war spread in the Far East and the British, Japanese, and Chinese fought ferocious battles on Burmese soil, an eleven– year:old boy and his family found themselves trapped in the path of advancing armies. Told through the eyes of that Anglo–Burmese...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-02522-7. This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish the war's...
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2004. — 216 p. On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1,300 French sailors lost their lives. The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an objective understanding of the course of...
New York: The Bookmailer, 1965. — 262 p. Early battles of the Pacific-First peace feelers How Communist propaganda affects our foreign policy Yalta and the advisers Okinawa-Suzuki-Eugene Dooman testifies The "resignation" of Mr. Grew Potsdam and the advisers The atomic bomb and surrender The MacArthur hearings
New York: The Bookmailer, 1965. — 262 p. Early battles of the Pacific-First peace feelers How Communist propaganda affects our foreign policy Yalta and the advisers Okinawa-Suzuki-Eugene Dooman testifies The "resignation" of Mr. Grew Potsdam and the advisers The atomic bomb and surrender The MacArthur hearings
London: Frank Cass, 2004. — 279 p. The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended in a disappointing stalemate. Explanation of these and other humiliating failures has...
New York: Routledge, 2006. — 228 p. This is a collection of essays produced by 16 leading American, British, Canadian, German and New Zealand historians, the product of two international conferences held in the United Kingdom in 2004. The essays re-examine key aspects of the Normandy campaign from the events of D-Day to points towards the close of the campaign discussing the...
William Morrow, 1998. — 132 p. In the desperate battle for Guadalcanal, every American soldier had to walk a thin red line between life and death. On August 7, 1942, American Marines waded into the Pacific island called Gaudalcanal. They encountered jungles, alligators, insidious malaris, and a particularly deadly adversary in the Japanese soldier. Only weeks after their defeat...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978 1 84908 190 0 The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions...
Fort Leavenworth: Us Army Command and General Staff College, 1986. — 51 p. This study examines the nature of the defense at the operational level of war by analyzing the Battle of the Bulge in Dec. 1944 using the concepts of blitzkrieg and "web" defense. The monograph begins by discussing the influence of defensive theory on the operational concepts of blitzkrieg and "web"...
New York: Ballantine, 1973. - 158 pgs. The Chindits were the largest of the allied special forces of the 2nd World War. They were formed and lead by Major General Orde Wingate. The Chindits operated deep behind enemy lines in North Burma in the war against Japan. For months they lived in and fought the enemy in the jungles of Japanese occupied Burma, totally relying on airdrops...
Other Press, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-590510-52-0. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined material, this staggering account sheds new light on the Allies’ responsibility for a landmark agreement that had dire consequences. On returning from Germany on September 30, 1938, after signing an agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain...
Osprey Publishing, 1980 Men at Arms Series/100 Though for centuries fighting was considered primarily a man's job, the world wars of the 20th century demanded women's involvement in the war effort. By World War II women were playing a major auxiliary role in all branches of the armed forces. From the daring female fighter pilots of besieged Russia to the heroic American nurses...
Arcturus, 2017. — 306 p. — ISBN: 1788280237. After D-Day, 6 June 1944, Hitler found his worst nightmare coming true. He was fighting on two fronts, with the Russians advancing from one side and the western powers from the other. This book shows how the Allies built on their successes after the titanic struggle in the east, culminating in the brutal battle of Stalingrad, and...
Arcturus, 2017. — 306 p. — ISBN: 1788280237. After D-Day, 6 June 1944, Hitler found his worst nightmare coming true. He was fighting on two fronts, with the Russians advancing from one side and the western powers from the other. This book shows how the Allies built on their successes after the titanic struggle in the east, culminating in the brutal battle of Stalingrad, and...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2013 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 1137297689; ISBN13: 978-1137297686. The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 376 p. The period between the two world wars of the twentieth century was one of the most exciting in the history of war. In anticipation of another conflict, military planners and civilian thinkers struggled after 1918 with the painful implications of World War I. Given its scope, the wholesale mobilization of civilian populations, and the...
Brill, 2013. — 536 p. Northern European Overture to War offers an international perspective on the diplomatic and military factors that shaped the course of events in Northern Europe as the region became increasingly drawn into the wider great power war.
Simon and Schuster, 2013. — 248 p. In Between the Alps and a Hard Place, Professor Angelo M. Codevilla reveals how the true history of the Swiss in World War II has been buried beneath a modern campaign of moral blackmail that has accused Switzerland of secretly supporting Nazi Germany and sharing culpability for the Holocaust.
Brandford Press, 1982. — 146 p. The Underwater War takes a fresh and authoritative look at submarines during World War Two. No other book has dealt as internationally and intimately with the way submarines lived and fought during the years 1939-45. Practically all the material is drawn from original sources and life on operational duty is described in detail, closely involving...
Cartoons and posters by Lord Beaverbrook. — London: HM Ministry of Information, 1942. — 24 p. Great history is made: An Anglo-American mission goes to Stalin. Extract from Lord Beaverbrook’s broadcast to the people upon his return from Moscow. Britain’s tank factories are working day and night. «Hurricanes» are in Russia! Britain’s tank factories work day and night. «Tanks,...
Cartoons and posters by Lord Beaverbrook. — London: HM Ministry of Information, 1942. — 24 p. Great history is made: An Anglo-American mission goes to Stalin. Extract from Lord Beaverbrook’s broadcast to the people upon his return from Moscow. Britain’s tank factories are working day and night. «Hurricanes» are in Russia! Britain’s tank factories work day and night. «Tanks,...
Exisle Publishing, 2015. — 240 p. The WWII Battle of Sidi Rezegh was fought in November-December 1941, part of a campaign to retake eastern Libya and drive the enemy out of North Africa. It was partially successful and achieved the badly needed relief of Tobruk. The New Zealand Division played a major role in this complex campaign. Peter Cox sets the scene for the fighting in...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. — 286 p. Britain and the Red Cross, 1864–1929 Grandeur, Tribulation, Apocalypse, 1919–40 Prisoners and Parcels, 1940–1 Dependence and Divergence, 1941–2 Civilians and Ships, 1940–3 Prestige and Credibility, 1942–3 Humanity and Götterdämmerung, 1944–5 Relief and Redundancy, 1945–6
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2009. — 336 p. After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey’s Second Army moved two entire corps from the Caen sector to the relatively quiet countryside around Caumont. Here, the British XXX Corps prepared to give battle, with VII Corps...
Barnes & Noble, 2007. — 584 p. — ISBN: 0-7607-9475-8. When the German Blitzkrieg smashed into Poland on September 1, 1939, the world was plunged into mankind’s most destructive war. World War II: A Day-by-Day History is a chronological history of the conflict from the start of the Polish campaign in September 1939 to the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. All...
Editorial Planeta, 2008. — 500 p. ¿Cuál era el campo de concentración más grande que estuvo en funcionamiento en Europa entre 1939 y 1945? No era Auschwitz. ¿Qué país perdió la mayor cantidad de civiles entre 1939 y 1945? No fueron Francia ni Alemania. Con una mirada totalmente diferente sobre una parte de la historia de Europa que todos creemos conocer, Norman Davies contesta...
Pan MacMillan, 2003. — 784 p. One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomed Warsaw Uprising of 1944 — an uprising that failed because the Allies betrayed it. Now that story comes to its full terrible life in this gripping account by the bestselling historian Norman Davies. In August 1944, encouraged by the advance of the Red Army, the Polish...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 64 p. — ISBN: 978-1-846039-19-3. Alex de Quesada reveals the full history of the US Coast Guard throughout World War II in this Elite title. In particular, the book draws attention to the little-known story of how the US Coast Guard ran a number of the landing craft throughout D-Day in 1944 as well as providing crucial anti-U-boat patrols throughout...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 379 p. This book is the first complete study in English of Antonescu's part in the Second World War. Antonescu was a major ally of Hitler and Romania fielded the third largest Axis army, joined the Tripartite Pact in November 1940 as a sovereign state and participated in the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941 as an equal partner of Germany.
Greenhill Books, 2007. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85367-705-2. In 1945, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany’s most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital, Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitler’s ill-fated decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941. The horrors of Leningrad and Stalingrad were to be avenged by an army...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017. — 248 p. This book examines the experience of two British Infantry Divisions, the 43rd (Wessex) and 53rd (Welsh), during the Overlord campaign in Northwest Europe. To understand the way the British fought during Operation Overlord, the book considers the political and military factors between 1918 and 1943 before addressing the major battles and...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 126 p. This latest book in the highly successful Images of War series covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border. The plan involved two separate but concurrent operations. US Army General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to train up two Chinese divisions and together with a US...
Pen & Sword Books, 2015. — 208 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-473845-58-0. IN JUST TEN WEEKS from 8 December 1941 to mid-February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita. Many British and Imperial units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and...
Bennington, Vermont: Merriam Press, 1989. - 46 pgs. Merriam Press Monograph No. M-36. The author states that the relationship of events in time is the true essence of history, so this is basically a daily journal that records the general events on a day-to-day basis. It is hoped this will add to the reader's understanding of the gallant but futile defense of the Philippine...
University Press of Kansas, 1994. — 354 p. This study picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the breakout in France to the German Army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Doubler deals with the deadly business of war - closing with the enemy, fighting and winning battles, taking and holding territory. His study provides a reassessment of how American...
Archon Books, 1985. — 232 p. An examination of the military doctrine that animated the French defense against the German invasion in 1940. The fall of France in 1940 stunned leaders across the world. France boasted one of the most modern militaries of the time but collapsedswiftly in the face of German aggression - because, historian Robert A. Doughty argues, its military...
Pantheon Books, 1986. — 1032 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-81614-6. Part One: Enemies. Patterns of Race War. " Know You Enemy ". War Hates and War Crimes. Part Two: War in Western Eyes. Apes and Others. Lesser Man and Supermen. Primitives, Children, Madman. Yellow, Red, and Black Men. Illustrations. Part Three: War in Japanese Eyes. The Pure Self. The Demonic Other. " Global Policy with...
Da Capo Press, 1993. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0306805057 ISBN13: 9780306805059. On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the thousands along the east bank — the Russian side —...
New Jersey: Castle Books, 2002. — 403 p. — ISBN: 0-7858-1624-0 On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the thousands along the east bank — the Russian side — of the...
2005. — 28 p. Alphabetically considered the most important battles of the Second World war, which took place in the African, Pacific, Western and Eastern theaters of War. World War II events from A to Z.
New York: Quill William Morrow 1994. — 414 p. — ISBN: 0-688-12288-4. This is not a history of World War II , but revelations about many of the lesser-known details. Because it is a book of facts, you don't read it from beginning to end, but rather you jump in wherever it strikes your fancy. There are over three hundred separate items, each a complete story in itself. As a rule,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 240 p. "Stalin's Defectors" is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among its prisoners of war. Based on a broad range of sources, this volume...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 308 p. Amidst the ruins of postwar Europe, and just as the Cold War dawned, many new memorials were dedicated to those Americans who had fought and fallen for freedom. Some of these monuments, plaques, stained-glass windows and other commemorative signposts were established by agents of the US government, partly in the service of...
Time-Life (Creator), 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 160320993X. — ISBN13: 978-1603209939. World War II, fought from 1939 to 1945, engulfed the globe in a shattering struggle over national sovereignty and individual rights. It was also the costliest battle in history in terms of human life, with millions perishing in combat, in concentration camps, and under the rubble of crushed...
Brill, 2014. — 300 p. Jonathan Andrew Epstein's Belgium's Dilemma: The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy, 1932-1940 is a study of the policy makers, debates, and decisions that impacted the Belgian army in the years before World War II.
Teach Yourself, 2011. — 292 p. Charting the main military campaigns, this book examines the path to Allied victory and its impact on the countries involved. It explores such questions as Why did Hitler declare war on the U.S.? Why did the Allied powers out-produce the Axis powers? Who was the most effective leader? Should American and British strategy have been different? and...
Abbeydale Press, 2003. — 240 p. World War II Ground, Sea & Air Battles is the harrowing yet often uplifting story of World War II, told through narrative spiced with first-hand accounts by those who fought and lived through those 'dark hours' of the 2,000-day conflict.
Colorado-Springs: Ereads, 2000. — 144 p. The Battle of Anzio was among of the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T.R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the Allied forces' fight for survival on an Italian beach as they stormed what Winston Churchill called the soft underbelly of the Axispowers. In one of the turning points of the war, the...
Field manual. — War Department, United States Government Printing Washington , November 1944. — 172 p. This manual covers the tactical employment of the armored infantry battalion, both as part of a larger force, and when acting independently. It is designed as a guide and does not prescribe a set of inflexible rules. Each tactical situation must be solved on its own merits and...
Field manual. — Washington: US Goverment Printing Office, 1942. — 144 p. This manual, containing illustrations with explanatory data relative to foreign armored vehicles, German, Japanese, Russian, and Italian, is published for limited distribution. When illustrations are not given, blank spaces have been left so that they may be added when provided. The manual will be used for...
Basic Field Manual. — Washington: US Goverment Printing Office of War Departament, 1941. — 171 p. The purpose of this manual is to serve as a guide in the identification and classification of foreign armored vehicles. Armies include those from Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy, and France.
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 65 p. — (Leadership-Strategy-Conflict). Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful German commanders of World War II. His military mind proved outstanding in many a conflict but perhaps his greatest triumph was his ingenious operational plan that led to the rapid defeat of France in May 1940. Manstein also showed great skill under adversity by...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 400 p. — (General Military). — ISBN 978-1-4728-1486-9. In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the...
Cassell, Arms and Armour, 1997. — 254 p. Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox", employed German "blitzkrieg" techniques to great effect during the rush through the Low Countries and France, then excelled himself in the Desert Campaign until being swamped by Allied numbers, and returned to France to work with forces attempting to prevent an Allied invasion. This text shows the forces,...
Ian Allan Publishing, 2003. — 97 p. — (Blitzkrieg). World War 2 was to witness the triumph of offence over defence, with the awesome power of tank armies and air forces deployed to devastating effect. The French may have thought their Maginot Line impregnable, but its rapid breeching in the spring of 1940 emphasised how far German military thinking had developed as opposed to...
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 318 p. This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler’s assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central,...
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1983. - 429 pgs. Written by an officer and historian of the British Army, this is a campaign history of the British Army in the Second World War: its battles, defeats and victories, across all theaters of operations from the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939 to the final defeat of Japan in 1945. Here the reader will find grand strategy at...
Booket, 2016. — (Divulgación. Historia). — ISBN10: 8408150219; ISBN13: 978-8408150213. En el año 2015 se conmemora el 70.º aniversario del final de la segunda guerra mundial, la guerra total de la que todos conocemos los grandes hitos: los turbios inicios del nazismo, la invasión de Polonia, la derrota de Francia, el bombardeo de Pearl Harbor, el Afrika Korps, el holocausto...
Stackpole Books, 2012. — 592 p. Series: Stackpole Military History Series. ISBN10: 0811711625 ISBN13: 978-0811711623. Myth-busting account of the summer of 1943 on the Eastern Front, one of World War II's turning points. Includes the Battle of Kursk. Special focus on the notorious 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf". George M. Nipe Jr. is an internationally recognized expert on...
Casmbridge, UK: Cambridge University Press — 1994 — 1198 p. — ISBN10: 0340398027; ISBN13: 978-0521443173. 1st edition. This is the first general history of World War II to be based both on the existing literature and on extensive work in British, American and German archives. It covers all the theaters of war, the weaponry used, and developments on the home front. Taking a...
RosettaBooks LLC, 2014. — 950 p. — ISBN Acrobat e-Book edition: 9780795337314 In the hands of master historian Martin Gilbert, the complex and compelling story of the Second World War comes to life. This narrative captures the perspectives of leading politicians and war commanders, journalists, civilians, and ordinary soldiers, offering gripping eyewitness accounts of heroism,...
Revised Edition. — New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. — 846 p. — ISBN: 0-8050-0534-X, ISBN: 0-8050-1788-7 (An Owl Book: pbk.). In the hands of master historian Martin Gilbert, the complex and compelling story of the Second World War comes to life. This narrative captures the perspectives of leading politicians and war commanders, journalists, civilians, and ordinary...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 336 p. This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the Second World War by covering the range of challenges, threats, issues, dilemmas, and changes faced and dealt with by Sweden during the conflict. Interest in Sweden's wartime experiences has increased due to its post-war profile as a neutral that both allowed German troops to...
Fort Leaveworth: Soviet Army Studies Office US Army Combined Arms Center, 1987. — 36 p. One's view of historical reality is inevitably flawed,. While most historians strive to preserve or recreate an objective picture of historical forces and events, a variety of factors affect their work all of which tend to warp objective reality and produce a subjective view of history. This...
Fort Leavenworth: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1983. — 215 p. Shortly after midnight on 9 August 1945, assault parties of Soviet troops crossed the Soviet-Manchurian border and attacked Japanese positions in Manchuria.
Fort Leavenworth: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1983. — 237 p. Shortly after midnight on 9 August 1945, assault parties of Soviet troops crossed the Soviet-Manchurian border and attacked Japanese positions in Manchuria. This was the vanguard of a force of more than 1.5 million men that was to advance along multiple axes on a frontage of more than 4,400 kilometers,...
London, Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. — 402 p. The Soviet Far East Command’s strategic offensive of August 1945 against the Kwantung Army shattered Japanese defenses around the periphery of Manchuria in seven days and achieved total victory in less than two weeks, ending Japanese domination of northeastern Asia (see Map 1). The command commenced its strategic...
Pantheon, 2012. — 120 S. Daniel Goldhagen hat mit seiner Studie über die Vollstrecker des Holocaust heftige Debatten ausgelöst. Seine These: Schon lange vor Hitler war der Antisemitismus tief verwurzelt in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Es waren nicht nur einige SS-Leute, sondern ganz gewöhnliche Deutsche, die millionenfach Juden erniedrigten und ermordeten.
Potomac Books Inc., 2004. — 336 p. The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invaluable resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the eminent scholar of Pearl Harbor, who...
The Palm Press, Siesta Key, Florida, 2018. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9796-3256-0. "We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world. What kind of...
The Palm Press, Siesta Key, Florida, 2018. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9796-3256-0. "We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world. What kind of...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 209 p. Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb’s revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the...
Barnsley, S. Yorks.: Leo Cooper, 2003. - 255 pgs. The turning point of the war in Burma was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For four months there was intense and savage fighting. The Japanese plan was to encircle and destroy the British and Indian positions before bursting into the plain and seizing Imphal. They failed in their first aim but the Japanese 15th Army prepared...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1848326831. Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign. This book depicts the experience of that army in Normandy through its own records and documentation. The Wehrmacht Archive is an informative and colourful collection...
The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010. — 937 p. — ISBN: 978-1-933550-33-6 The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World...
Osceola: Motorbooks International, 1999. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0760306524, ISBN13: 978-0760306529. Follow every detail of Patton's actions during Germany's famous WWII counteroffensive. From the attacks of the 5th and 6th Panzer Armies at Schnee Eifel and St. Vith to the 3rd Army offensive that forced the Rhine River, the authors capture all of the critical actions of both Allied...
Osceola: Motorbooks International, 1998. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 076030498X, ISBN13: 978-0760304983. Patton: Operation Cobra and Beyond tells the story of this bold - and sometimes controversial - general, his men, and their machines in the drive across France towards the Rhine. More than 200 original photographs and text filled with first-hand accounts put you in the middle of one...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 209 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-47386-676-8. Expert author Michael Green has compiled a full inventory of the tanks developed and deployed by the Allied armies during the six year war against Nazi Germany and her Axis partners. There were four categories of tank: Light, Medium, Heavy and Super Heavy. Combat experience proved Light tanks (such as the...
Pen & Sword, 2013. — 253 p. — (Images of war). — ISBN: 978-1-78159-183-3. It was the Stalin's tanks and armored fighting vehicles and their crews that finally pushed the German Army back from the outskirts of Moscow in late 1941 and early 1942. Proof of the Red Army tanks' and AFVs' effectiveness came at the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 when they defeated the cream of...
Bantam Books, 1980. — 178 p. Masterful pacing, vivid character sketches, and gripping action blend with rigorous historical detail in Samuel B. Griffith's The Battle for Guadalcanal. Launched on August 7, 1942, to protect Allied control of the strategic South Pacific islands, the Guadalcanal operation was the most costly American offensive of World War II in the history of the...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. — 217 p. Throughout World War II, the United States played a pivotal role in the development of British maritime aviation. Even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm pilots were being trained in the United States under a scheme set up by the United States Navy as part of the Lend-Lease agreement. For many...
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 2010. — 93 p. The U.S. Navy is building Virginia class submarines, and recently completed the conversion of four Ohio class submarines from Trident Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN’s) to Guided Missile Submarines (SSGN’s). The Virginia class is the first...
Basic Books, 2017. — 720 p. A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The Second World Wars examines...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 262 p. — (History of Warfare, 99). Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 offers a collection of scholarly papers focusing on heretofore understudied aspects of the Second World War. Encompassing the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe, this volume...
UK: Sutton Publishing, 2003. — 137 pgs. World War II witnessed the greatest mobilization of women in British history for service in the armed forces. For many women, who were often still in their teens, this was their first time away from home. The issue of a uniform and their first night in a barrack hut were experiences that would stay with them for ever, together with the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — ISBN10: 0521785030, ISBN13: 9780521785037. This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers: the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USSR. What contribution did economics make to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war? What was the effect of wartime experiences on...
Gold Medal Books, 1962. — 228 p. You will note that many of the photographs inside this book are grainy and a little blurred. They were taken in the heat and dust and smoke of battle by men who were there. The soldiers in these pictures do not look very glamorous. They do not stand upright; they crouch-and frequently lie flat on their bellies. They are tough, dirty, scared, and...
Osprey, 2002. - 96 p. ISBN: 1841763845. This book examines the seminal Northwest Europe campaign of the Second World War. This hard-fought campaign conducted by the Western Allies against the Germans during 1944-45 represented, for the former, the decisive theatre of the entire Second World War. From the desperate and risk-laden D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 to the rapid charge...
The belknap press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England.2005. 382 p. Introduction: Race to the Finish. Triangular Relations and the Pacific War. Stalin, Truman, and Hirohito Face New Challenges. Decisions for War and Peace. Potsdam: The Turning Point. The Atomic Bombs and Soviet Entry into the War. Japan Accepts Unconditional Surrender. August...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. — eISBN: 978-1-4000-4372-9 This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain’s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy “to stand with that of the best journalists and writers” ( New York Times Book Review ). In September 1944, the Allies believed...
London: Pan Publishing, 1981 Das Reich is Sir Max Hastings’s narrative of the atrocities committed by the 2nd SS Panzer Division during June of 1944: first, the execution of 99 French civilians in the village of Tulle on June 9; and second, the massacre of 642 more in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10. Throughout the book, Hastings expertly shifts perspective between...
2013. — 49 p. At their height, the battles for Normandy and Brittany included 14 American infantry divisions. These arrived between D-Day on 6 June 1944 through the end of August, just as the battles for northern France were coming to a close. Obviously there are too many divisions for each to be featured in Overlord, however as luck and American efficiency would have it, you...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 256 p. Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy's dream of access to the Atlantic was realised, and Brest, Lorient, St Nazaire, La Pallice...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2005. — 100 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). ISBN: 0-203-33227-X Master e-book ISBN. ISBN: 0-415-33261-3 (hbk). ISBN: 0-415-33262-1 (pbk). Updated and expanded throughout to take into consideration the most up-to-date historical research, this new edition of "The Origins of the Second World War" analyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World...
Whitchurch, Hants.: Portia Press, 1986. — 261 p. John Henslow joined the army in 1941 and passed out from OCTU in 1942 at the age of 19. By April 1943 he was an officer in Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners at Bangalore, and posted to the "fogotten army" in Burma. With 421 Indian Field Company as part of the 7th Indian Division he was at the Battle of Kohima and...
Accrington: The Nayler Group, 2004. — 240 pgs. This is the microhistory of Brian Kay Heyworth and 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1939 and 1940. Major Heyworth was a lawyer when called up with his territorial battalion, and was commanding when killed in the defense of Hazebrouck in Belgium, a delaying action that held up the...
London: Blandford , 1991. — 192 p. The author commanded a company of the Royal Berkshire Regiment from training in India through combat in Burma against the Japanese, when the battalion was part of the 19th Indian Division. He won the Military Cross for bravery under fire. Of the 196 members of the company during the campaign, 112 were killed or wounded.
Omnigraphics Inc., 2009. — 237 p. The events of December 7, 1941 — the day the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor military base, prompting the United States to declare war on Japan and to enter World War II — are provided in this account. The strike, the events that led up to it, and its consequences up to the present day are explored in detail....
Free Press, 2008. — 885 p. American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest generation," Americans often overlook the...
New York. Ballantine, 1971. - 158 pgs. This is the history of De Gaulle's struggle to make the Free French a factor in the war against Germany, from the dark days of 1940 to the first vindication of France's resolve in a bitter struggle for a desert outpost in North Africa - Bir Hakim. Here Foreign Legionnaires and colonial troops made the military reputation of Free France as...
DK Publishing, 2009. - 363 p. ISBN10: 0756642787 World War II is divided into nine chronological chapters, each introduced by a general overview of the military and political situation. This is followed by a comprehensive timeline, covering events in all theaters of the war. The opening chapter analyzes the build-up of hostility in the years leading up the war, both in Europe...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 95 p. — (Essential Histories). The war in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the atomic bombs on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to the surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. It was a war of great naval battles, such as those in the Coral Sea, at Midway, and at Leyte and...
Bantam Books, 2004. — 552 p. “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest...
London, New York, Canberra: Rosen Education Service, 2010 - 261 p. World War II is just one title in this five book series that gives readers a detailed look into America's military history. Military legacies are not just about dates and timelines; they're about our strengths and weaknesses, ignorance and brilliance, and desire for peace or dominance. Students will discover the...
UXL Imprint of the Gale Group, 1999. — 288 p. Introduce your students to 31 noteworthy people who were involved in or affected by World War II. They cover political and military leaders, such as Stalin and Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Rommel, as well as people like Ernie Pyle (American journalist) and Franz Jagerstatter (German Catholic conscientious objector). It also includes...
Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1990. — xi+145 p.: ill., maps. — (Leavenworth Papers No. 18) [Enhanced e-Version: scanned pages with OCR-layer] Foreword (Leonard P. Wishart III, Lieutenant General, USA Commandant) In modern military literature, there is no more pernicious theme than that the day of the infantryman has...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 312 p. The decision to fortify northeastern France has usually been considered a tragic mistake, an example of bad planning and missed opportunities. Not so, says Judith M. Hughes, who provides a convincing view of how France’s military and political leaders tried to safeguard their nation and why they failed. As critic Michael Hurst writes in...
Second Edition. — Washington: Center of Military History United States Army, 2006. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-16-076546-3 Before 7 December 1941, while war was actively being waged in Europe and the Far East, the United States, still a neutral, was expanding its manufacturing facilities to meet the demands for additional war materials, both for the growing U.S. forces and those of the...
Second Edition. — Washington: Center of Military History United States Army, 2001. — 473 p. — ISBN: 0-16-076546-3 Before 7 December 1941, while war was actively being waged in Europe and the Far East, the United States, still a neutral, was expanding its manufacturing facilities to meet the demands for additional war materials, both for the growing U.S. forces and those of the...
Winnipeg: Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE, 1993. - 44 pgs. This supplement provides additional records of service men and women of Icelandic descent who served in the Second World War. This is a sequel to Minningarrit Islenzkar Hermanna , published by IODE in 1923, which contained records for the First World War. The present supplement contains records and corrections for World War...
Winnipeg: Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE, 1990. - 579 pgs. This book provides a record of service men and women of Icelandic descent who served in the Second World War. This is a sequel to Minningarrit Islenzkar Hermanna , published by IODE in 1923, which contains records for the First World War. The present book's first two sections contain the records of men and women in the...
Winnipeg: Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE, 1990. - 579 pgs. This book provides a record of service men and women of Icelandic descent who served in the Second World War. This is a sequel to Minningarrit Islenzkar Hermanna , published by IODE in 1923, which contains records for the First World War. The present book's first two sections contain the records of men and women in the...
Indiana University Press, 2007. - 408 p. Midway (04-07 June 1942), the most famous naval battle in American history, has been the subject of many excellent books. However, none satisfactorily explain why the Japanese lost that battle, given their overwhelming advantage in firepower. While no book may ever silence debate on the subject, Midway Inquest answers the central mystery...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 293 p. — ISBN: 0192805509 The Fall of France in 1940 is one of the pivotal moments of the twentieth century. If the German invasion of France had failed, it is arguable that the war might have ended right there. But the French suffered instead a dramatic and humiliating defeat, a loss that ultimately drew the whole world into war. This exciting...
London: Cassell & Co, 1972. - 264 pgs. During the first years of the war, the allied countries were being defeated at every turn. Nothing seemed to work for Poland, France or Britain and, in the Pacific, nothing seemed to work for the U.S. Robert Jackson's book covers these desperate days from the point of view of the RAF Bomber Command. Heading off to fight Nazi Germany in...
Smithmark Publishers, 1991. — 104 p. — ISBN: 978-0-831790-54-7. A study of World War II's great mysteries features tales of Churchill, Hitler, Bormann, Amelia Earhart, Leslie Howard, and Rudolph Hess.
Department of Army, India, 1945. — 85 p. This Section is intended to cover all Japanese Small Arms Ammunition and Aircraft Cannon cartridges up to 25-mm. calibre. Cartridges of calibres above 25-mm. will be dealt with in Section E, under Gun Ammunition.
London: Routledge, 2006. — 414 p. This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese sources, this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific. Detailing the...
CUP, 2013. — 272 p. Anzacs in the Middle East is a compelling exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II. Spurred by a sense of adventure and duty, they set sail to countries of which they knew very little. The book examines the relationships between Australians and their allies, and also how they related to the local people:...
John Murray (Publishers), 2015. — Ebook ISBN: 978-1-84854-497-0. May 2015 will be the seventieth anniversary of VE-Day in Europe. For many, in the Allied armed forces and among the civilians who supported the war effort, it will be a last opportunity to connect with a vitally important achievement – the overthrow of Hitler and the Nazi regime. We remember those who sacrificed...
The Brown Reference Group, 2004. — 225 p. ND Preparations for War The spymasters Easy victories The Island Fortress The neutral background War without mercy Special operations The Worldwide web Other services The secret war within Footnotes End notes and sources
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 192 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1783036387. The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So historically important was this vessel that the arms race between Britain and Germany to build navies with larger, more...
Praeger Security International, 2006. — 200 p. The Maginot Line was the last great gun-bearing line of subterranean forts built before World War II. Although it acquired an unjustified reputation as a white elephant, the Maginot Line fulfilled the role for which it was built, allowing the French High Command the opportunity to mass its forces and counter the German invasion....
New York: Random House, 1995. - 128 pgs. This is a wonderful bibliographic essay in which John Keegan points to what he considers the most important books on the Second World War. Anybody interested in the conflict will want to consult Keegan's list as they add to their personal libraries. Keegan also lays out the war's historiography, pointing out how much still is not known...
Routledge, 2001. — 190 p. Noted historian John Keegan masterfully brings together more than 300 of the most important and key characters (generals, admirals and politicians) from all over the world to provide the most useful one-stop reference on WWII.
Washington: Department of The Army, 1956. — 77 p. The German attack on Poland precipitated World War II, making the Polish campaign one of particular significance to the student of the 1939 s conflict. The lessons learned by the German Army in its operations in Poland were put to use in the later campaigns against the western Allies, the Balkan states, and the Soviet Union....
Marshall Cavendish Promotions Ltd., 1975. — 64 p. This is a special supplement to the Marshall Cavendish series on World War II. It covers the fighting in North Africa between the British on one side and the Italians and Germans on the other. Special attention is paid to the tanks used, the tactics, and the influence of air power.
Nebraska: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 98 pgs. Recollections of one man's experiences in the U.S. Army's horse cavalry at Fort Riley later in the China-Burma-India theater. The author, now 89, learned to ride with the reservist cavalry at Fort Omaha at the age of 12. When WWII broke out he enlisted and was sent to Ft. Riley. Already trained in weapons...
Touchstone, 2013. - 400 p. The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities, it didn’t appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II it...
Aachen: Helios-Verlag, 2015. — 391 s. — ISBN: 978-3-86933-127-0 Vor 70 Jahren kehrte der furchtbarste Krieg der Menschheitsgeschichte auf deutsches Staatsgebiet zurück. Im Westen hatten die alliierten Truppen die Reichsgrenze überschritten und drangen unaufhaltsam vor. Im Osten erreichten die Truppen der Roten Armee während einer mächtigen Angriffsoperation bis zu 500 Kilometer...
New York: The Free Press; Macmillan Inc., 1991. — 344 p. — ISBN 0-02-917425-2. Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Translated by Deborah Burnstone The title "The Good Old Days" ("Schone Zeiten" in German) comes from the cover of a private photo album kept by concentration camp commandant Kurt Franz of Treblinka. This gruesomely sentimental and unmistakably authentic title introduces...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 385 p. This book explores the motives, preparation, objectives, contact and consequences of Italy's war of 1940, which ended the country's role as a great power and reduced it to the status of first among Germany's satellites. What Professor Knox demonstrates more clearly than any previous biographer or historian is the limits of Mussolini's...
Wydawnictwo Militaria (Militaria 03); Year of publication: 1993; Language: Polish; Pages: 76; Images: color and black and white photos, color drawings Politically German's European allies were rather strange of bad-fellows only common bond was their attitude towards the Soviet Union. Finland was a parliamentary democracy, Hungary was democratic too, (only with vacant throne)....
Greenwood Press, 1999. — 449 p. An all-encompassing book with more than a thousand quotations, this work breathes life into an era unprecedented in world history. Covering all aspects of the war, the volume includes more than 300 individuals from the Allies, the Axis, and the neutrals. It quotes the major political leaders, including Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, and Stalin,...
An Archival Survey. — Finnish Literature Society, The National Archives of Finland. Helsinki, 2019. In the spring of 1941, Finland began to recruit volunteers to serve in the German Waffen-SS. After the perils of the Winter War of 1939-40, the Finnish government and the military high command wanted support against the continuing existential threat posed by the Soviet Union,...
Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2004. — 191 p. Following the German counterattack at Mortain on August 7, 1944, Generals Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery decided to engage in a wide encircling movement, to trap the enemy divisions that were trying to advance westward. On August 8, American XV Corps entered Le Mans then advanced rapidly northward. Meanwhile, Montgomery had broken the...
University of Alabama Press, 2007. — 378 p. The 94th U.S. Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings - with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust and respect. Initially used as part of the force blockading...
Stackpole Books, 2011. — 336 p. The unexpected arrival of Soviet troops at the end of January 1945 at the ancient fortress and garrison town of Küstrin came as a tremendous shock to the German High Command-the Soviets were now only 50 miles from Berlin itself. The Red Army needed the vital road and rail bridges passing through Küstrin for their forthcoming assault on the...
Bantam Books, 2010. — 832 p. — ISBN: 978-0-553-90824-4. Maps. Part One: The Challenge. Part Two: Alone. Part Three: At Bay. Part Four: Crisis. Part Fife: Crux.
Penguin Books, 1996. — 459 p.— ISBN: 978-1-101-19629-8. Why Okinawa? Japan at Bay The Divine Wind The Japanese Samurai The First Blood for America Kamikaze Strike /Franklin Ordeal The " Americans " Love Day The Marines Overrun the World " Floating Chrysantemus " Fiere Failure at Kakazu Ridge Back to Banzai! Kikusui 2: Kamikaze Crucible Uncle Sam: Logistic Magician Hodge's...
April 19, 2006. — 110 p. There are many different types of infantry troops. And different types of infantry units. Grenades and Explosives. Explosive charges – generally with melenite. Mine Warfare Equipment. Anti-personnel mines. Flamethrowers. Mortars. Infantry guns. Anti-tank guns. Mountain Artillery. AA Artillery. Field artillery. Characteristics of several guns.
Greenwood Publishing, 1992. — 235 p. This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last twenty years, and is the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity. Much of what Levine writes about British operations will be unfamiliar to American readers. He has stressed the importance of winning air...
Pen and Sword, 2003. — 208 p. Well-adapted to its environment and with its passionate sense of self-identity and inner unity, the Afrika Korps was a smooth-functioning and militarily efficient fighting force. Since it had the social characteristics of a well-ordered family, Ronald Lewin has written this book as a biography. From February 1941 when Rommel arrived in Tunisia, the...
Mondadori, 1997 - 954 pagine, ISBN: 8804421517 Ricostruzione dell'ultimo conflitto mondiale nella complessa contraddittorieta' dei suoi sviluppi militari, in un quadro estremamente accurato e specifico ad opera del sommo storico militare britannico.
US War Department, 1950. Halder F. - Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Army (OKH). This journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. Kept by Halder personally in shorthand it contains notes on conferences, memoranda, staff talks, lectures, reports, etc., as they...
Casemate Pub., 2011. — 432 p. This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. This is a topic often missing in English, though in stark contrast to the numerous books on the shorter and less bloody Winter War. That conflict represented a gallant fight of a democratic "David" against a...
Casemate Pub., 2013. — 289 p. Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany’s strategy in the north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war turned, and gigantic Russian armies began to close in on Berlin. In this long-awaited work, Henrik Lunde — former U.S. Special Forces officer and author of renowned previous works on the campaigns in...
600 p.(420 p. Word), 16 p. b/w photos, 9781935149330, paperback, Casemate, 2009 This book describes the often overlooked World War II campaign for Norway — a complex series of battles in which Hitler out-gambled Churchill in order to secure a vital resource lifeline for the Third Reich. After Hitler conquered Poland and was still fine-tuning his plans against France, the...
Da Capo Press, 2016. — 304 p. Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, an OSS operative who was also a Soviet double agent, and General Joseph "Vinegar...
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2011. — 65 p. — (Leadership-Strategy-Conflict). Field Marshal William (Bill) Joseph Slim (1891-1970) was one of the greatest British generals of World War II. In a career that stretched from 1914 until 1958, Bill Slim's greatest triumphs came in India and Burma in the long war against the Japanese. Thrust into a desperate situation, he orchestrated the...
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1973. - 465 p. Jusqu'en 1943, le dogme quasi-sacré du quartier général du Führer reste que la Waffen SS doit être uniquement recrutée parmi les peuples germaniques. Mais les péripéties et les tempêtes de guerre sur le front de l'Est, où les Russes résistent farouchement et causent des pertes sensibles aux Allemands, font qu'il faut à tout prix...
Center of Military History. — United States Army, 1993. — 572 p. Prelude to Victory Allied Strategy Allied Versus German Strength Weapons and Equipment Organization and Command Terrain and the Front Line Victory in the Ardennes The First Army’s Attack A Grim Struggle Around Bastogne The Drive on St. Vith Northward Across the Sûre Main Effort in the Eiffel General Bradley’s...
Center of Military History, United States Army, 1993. — 706 p. The Road to Germany Allied Strategy The Shadow of Logistics The Germans in the West The First U.S. Army Weapons and Equipment The Terrain and the West Wall A Pause at the Border V Corps Hits the West Wall The Race for the West Wall Into Germany Battle of the Schnee Eifel Bridgehead at Wallendorf Defense of the...
London: Greenhill Books, 1995. — 260 p. A presentation of various alternative strategies that could have been taken by Germany or the Allies during the Second World War, some more convincing than others: Operation SEA LION: Germany Invades Britain 1940 - Macksey Operation SPHINX: Raeder's Mediterranean Strategy - Perrett Operation WOTAN: The Panzer Thrust to Capture Moscow 1941...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1968. - 158 pgs. Campaign Book No. 1 in the series Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. In February 1941 things looked black for the Axis in North Africa, following defeat after defeat inflicted upon the Italian army at the hands of a small British tank force. Two months later all that had changed-the British themselves lay in...
Guilford, CT: Stackpole Books, 2019. — 368 p., b&w photographs, maps. By the summer of 1945, Adm. Bull Halsey’s U.S. Third Fleet had fought its way far enough in the Pacific that its carrier-based fighters could launch attacks on Japan itself in preparation for the invasion of the home islands, planned for the fall of 1945. This mission U.S. Navy fighters, fighter-bombers,...
New Orleans, LA: Welcome One Associates LLC, 2013. — 78 p. Almost no one has heard of The Royce Raid, a little known World War 2 story. On April 11,1942 ten purloined B-25 bombers left Australia on their way to the Philippines for a series of bombing runs from which no one was expected to return. All they had was National Geographic maps to navigate by as they flew low over...
Macmillan International Higher Education, 2003. — 280 p. This new study re-examines the controversial debate on Fascist Italy's road to international conflict that has raged for six decades. The author's privileged access to until now unseen archival materials allows him to assess the ideological, geopolitical, domestic and strategic considerations that shaped Mussolini's...
McFarland & Company, 2018. — 250 p. Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors. Some fought back, first by fighting against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and then by helping the Chinese in their struggle against Japan. There were, however, two rival factions in China. One favored Chiang Kai-shek (the nationalists) and...
I.B.Tauris, 2015. — 336 p. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured to death by Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon", is revered alongside Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin s story is full of unanswered questions, and the truth...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 215 p. S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their weapons while in contact with the enemy. His contention was based on interviews...
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 272 p. Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of V-J Day, 'The Pacific War Companion' brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was characterised by amazing...
Dundurn Press, 2003. — 192 p. A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions (in 1944). Charles Cromwell Martin became at twenty-four one of the youngest company sergeant-majors in the history of the Queen's Own, Canada's historic...
Washington, Center of Military History USA, 1999. — 456 p. It may seem to the reader that controversy and differences of opinion are stressed and that agreement and co-operative endeavor are slighted. Since planners are occupied with unsettled problems, their work necessarily involves differences of opinion. It is only when all sides of an issue are forcefully presented and the...
Matt Walsh. The Battle for Greece and Crete. Published by Matt Walsh 115 Leacocks Lane Casula 2170 Australia This booklet is an initiative of the Defence Reserves Association (NSW) Inc. and the Military Police Association of Australia Inc. as part of their Schools Military History Program.
Washington: Office of Air Force History, 1983. — 506 p. — ISBN: 0-912799-02-1 At the peak of its strength in World War 11, the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) had more than 2,400,000 men and women in uniform. There were pilots, navigators, bombardiers, gunners, and radio operators, clerks and typists, artists and flautists, teachers, mechanics, statisticians, and...
Bison Books, 1985. — 194 p. — ISBN: 0861242084 It has often been stated that World War II was part of a European Civil War that began in 1914 at the start of World War I. This is partly true. In Europe, at least, the two world wars were the two hideous halves of the Anglo-German controversy that was at the heart of both conflicts. The question posed was: would Britain be able,...
Aurum Press, 2012. Quality is inherently electronic This book details the lives of the convert operators that monitored German and Japanese communications, usually coded, and both decoded their transmissions and for the overseas operators, forwarded the information to Bletchley Park. Most operators came under the official secrets act and therefore have been unable to discuss...
Monography. — Fort Leavenworth: General Staf College, 2014. — 39 p. Over the course of thirty-eight days, the Allies successfully took possession of Sicily and claimed a tactical victory. However, the Axis forces won a moral victory by opposing a numerically superior foe while preserving a significant portion of their fighting force. Military historians lament the Axis...
Buffalo, New York: University of Buffalo, 1995. - 30 pgs. This is a complete listing of US Army units worldwide, US Army Air Force units, US Marine Corps units, and US Navy ships in Hawaii. Special sections address US Navy aircraft carrier locations, US Coast Guard ships and aircraft, the USAAF B-17 flight from California to Hawaii, and the USAAF B-24 spy mission from Hickum...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 532 p. A new perspective on the long and bloody Burma campaign, focusing on the four Allied commanders who battled not only the Japanese and their allies but also one another. This book, in essence a quadruple biography, tells the story of the four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most...
Dutton Caliber, 2019. — 640 p. An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die . "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the achievements of the Army ground troops", wrote one officer in the fall of 1943, "whereas the Marines are blown up to the skies." Even today, the Marines are celebrated as the victors...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. — 136 p. "Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings to...
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2010. — 487 p. — ISBN 978–0–571–26590–9. Map: The war on THE Eastern front Introduction: True War Stories Marching with Revolutionary Step A Fire Through All the World Disaster Beats Its Wings Black Ways of War Stone by Stone A Land Laid Waste May Brotherhood Be Blessed Exulting, Grieving and Sweating Blood Despoil the Corpse Sheathe the Old Sword...
Cassell, 1999. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0304352241. Germany's defeat in 1918 left the nation resentful-and paved the way for Nazism's ascent and the fierce determination to reverse that loss. Follow the spread of war throughout the world, and the technological developments and refinements of weaponry, as the Germans undertake the blitzkrieg of Eastern Europe in 1939-41; enlist other...
Shepperton, England: Ian Allan Ltd, 1982. - 128 pgs. This book sets out to describe the general course of the Tunisian Campaign, and to show its significance in the context of World War 2 as a whole. It also attempts to portray what the war in Tunisia was like for the individual fighting man. This campaign saw the new American army being bloodied, the last hurrah of the...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. — 207 p. This exciting series opens with "the Desert Fox", the most famous German field marshal in World War II, Erwin Rommel. A hero of the people of the Third Reich and widely respected by his opponents, Rommel proved himself highly adept at blitzkrieg warfare. He consistently outwitted his adversaries in both France and North Africa through his...
3 vols. — 2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 361 + 281 + 375 p. Volume 1. The First World War Volume 2. The Interwar Period Volume 3. The Second World War
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 300 p. In 1939, the Germans stormed into Poland, shocking the world with the speed, the destructiveness, the seeming invincibility of their blitzkrieg. By 1943, the tide had started to turn. Successes still came, but these were increasingly eclipsed by defeats and retreats, setbacks and surrenders. In Blitzkrieg No Longer, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.,...
Praeger, 2001. — 329 p. The last place a German soldier wanted to be in 1944 was the Russian front. That summer, Stalin hurled into battle more than six million men and 9,000 tanks, supported by 16,000 fighters and bombers and more than 12,800 guns and rocket launchers. Despite this massive effort and the resulting decimation of German forces, events on the Eastern Front are...
Praeger Trade, 2000. — 302 p. The Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in France. Mitcham recaptures the taste and feel of the Wehrmacht in 1944 as the thin gray line in Normandy finally snapped, the 5th Panzer and 7th Armies collapsed, and the survivors fled the Allied steamroller in a mad dash back to the Reich. From the...
Greenwood Publishing, 2008. — 768 p. The Rise of the Wehrmacht is the first comprehensive work to deal with the German war effort in World War II from this point of view. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it covers the entire war effort from the point of view of the German military that actually conducted and fought the war, something that has never been done before on this...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 368 p. In July 1943 the Allies launched a massive amphibious assault on Sicily. The invasion proved successful, bringing fame to American Gen. George S. Patton and British Gen. Bernard Montgomery, whose "race" to Messina was immortalized in the movie Patton. But according to Mitcham and Stauffenberg, the Allies lost a significant opportunity for total...
Westport, CT: Praeger Security Internation, 2007. — 215 + x p. — ISBN: 0-275-99436-8. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. , is an internationally recognized authority on Nazi Germany and the Second World War. He is the author of twenty-one books, including Rommel’s Lieutenants (Praeger Security International, 2007), Panzers in Winter (Praeger Security International, 2006), and Crumbling...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN: 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN: 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN: 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN: 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN: 116300647. Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 65 p. — (Leadership-Strategy-Conflict). This Osprey Command title looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), perhaps the best-known, most highly respected and most controversial British general of World War II. "Monty's"...
Osprey Publishing, 2011 - 256 p. Product Description: In his new book, WWII historian Gavin Mortimer, examines the pivotal events of one of the most famous military units of all time. Starting with the unit's formation in July 1941, Mortimer recreates the heady days when a young Scots' Guard officer called David Stirling persuaded MEHQ to give its backing to a small band of 60...
New York: Harper Collins, 2003. - 330 pgs. Mosier argues that the supposedly revolutionary concept of blitzkrieg has been overrated and that most of the victories on both sides were the result of conventional military tactics. He argues that the armored breakthrough in World War II always failed because defending armies could either shift to react or retreat out of the way....
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 390 p. In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops, fighting in regions as far apart as the Sahara and the Caucasus, confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. Islam and...
Washington D.C.: Center of Military History of United States Army, 2000. — 568 p. This volume relates the problems faced by Allies who met in strange lands without the benefit of tested and well co-ordinated policies to govern their diplomatic and military relations. The jealousies and conflicting interests of nations and of government agencies, together with the overlapping of...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 287 p. When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German....
Friedberg: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1977. - 160 s. Viele Fotos und Karten, Diagramme usw. Übersetzungen auf englisch ein wenig lückenhaft oder grundlose, aber wenn Ihr gefallt diese Art von Material, dann haben Sie wahrscheinlich bereits einige deutsche Sprachkenntnisse. Farbkunstwerk Platten für Modellbauer enthalten. Neben der deutschen Rüstung, gibt es zahlreiche Fotos von...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 656 p. In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. "A War...
Alabama, Air University-Air University Press- Maxwell Air Force Base, 1983. — 392 p. — ISBN: 1-58566-010-8 As with all military thought, a wide variety of political, historical, and economic factors guided the development of air doctrines in the period between the First and Second World Wars. Yet standing above all other influences was a revulsion against the mud and despair of...
Salamander Books Ltd., 1999. — 272 p. There has never been a war like the one in the Pacific (1941-1945) between the American Allies and the Empire of Japan. Unrivalled in its scope, it was a clash of cultures that turned tropical islands into killing grounds and laid waste cities with weapons of mass destruction. It turned World War II into a global war and ended with Japan's...
Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies US Army Command and General Staff College, 1988. — 39 p. This monograph discusses the implications of deployment theory in planning deployment operations at the strategic and operational levels of war. It proposes that there are tenets of deployment planning that are interrelated with the principles of war. The tenets for...
Barnes & Noble, 2000. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0760720436. Atlas of World War II provides a careful balance of information-packed yet clear and precise maps and an authoritative complementary commentary. A selection of historic photographs is also included. In addition to outlining the salient physical features of the battlegrounds, the atlas sets out the opposing orders of battle for...
New York: Overlook Press, 2004. - 388 p. Eighth Army is Robin Neillands's masterful and thrilling told account of the defeats and triumphs of Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force in World War II. Using first-hand source material-including personal accounts and interviews with veterans of Eighth Army-Neillands digs deeply into the details of...
Random House, 1995. — 512 p. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardThe cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies'...
Hannover, West Germany: Self published, 1990. - 195 pgs. This book is a compilation of Germany Army organizational charts ( Kriegsstärkenachweisungen ) in force at the outbreak of World War II. This volume collects those covering armored and mechanized divisions. No division was the same as another, and some of the charts have portions recreated or extrapolated from other...
Publisher: Helion and Company, 2013 -- 288 p. -- ISBN10: 190767764X, ISBN13: 978-1907677649 Days of Battle describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. Dr Norbert Számvéber the presents detailed accounts of four important clashes of German-Hungarian and Soviet armor north of the river Danube, in the southern territory of the...
Trowbridge, Wilts: Redwood Books, 1998. — 213 pgs. When he was just 19, officer John Nunneley arrived in Kenya to join the King's African Rifles, a famous colonial regiment. He first led his askaris in formerly Italian-occupied Ethiopia and Eritrea, and then in Burma's Kabaw Valley — otherwise known as the "Valley of Death"—where they fought Japan's elite White Tigers....
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 245 p. Over seventy years on the terrible events and outcome of the Second World War remains hugely relevant and important. Far from diminishing interest in this truly global conflict is increasing. The internet has enabled detailed research into ancestors' war records to an extent unimaginable a decade or so ago. There have been countless...
Gen. Editor W.H. Chafe. — Oxford — New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 384 p. — (Oxford Student Companions to American History). — ISBN: 978-0-19-510800-2. The Second World War was the most deadly and costly military struggle ever fought. It is estimated that some 60 million people died as a result of it, most of them civilians. But this figure is only a guess. Despite...
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2019. — 360 p. In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made. These are sites that were thought to be closed or locked away forever or, in some cases, thought never to exist at all, or were ignored by military historians for decades. With historical photos, contemporary photos, and written in a...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 373 p. World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch--a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa. The risk was enormous, the scale breathtaking, the preparations...
Washington: War Department, 1944. — 155 p. Separated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War by the Treaty of the Trianon, the Kingdom of Hungary is a constitutional monarchy without a king. Until some future time when a king is crowned. Admiral Horthy Miklós1 rules as Regent. He is head of the government and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. In time of...
München: Oldenbourg, 2000. — 367 s. — (Beiträge zur Militärgeschichte, Band 46). Schon unmittelbar nach Kriegsende haben die Alliierten versucht, die Höhe der deutschen Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu erforschen. Es war jedoch bis heute nicht möglich, zu annähernd zuverlässigen Ergebnissen zu kommen. Der Zusammenbruch der Wehrmacht und damit des Meldewesens ab Mitte 1944 und...
Oxford University Press, 2015 - 504 p. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing...
2nd ed. — Penguin Books, 1999. — 464 p. Were leaders in Britain and France so scarred by the carnage of World War I that they failed to stand up to Hitler as he began his march through Europe, thus providing the spark that would become World War II? Was Czechoslovakia abandoned by Britain and France, sacrificed in the face of Hitler's aggression? In The Road to War, acclaimed...
Penguin, 2010. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780141049175. Russia's War is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler’s Third Reich and shaped European history for the next half Century. In Russia's...
Allen Lane (Penguin Group), 2013. — 880 p. — ISBN: 9780141003214. The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a...
Washington: Special Staff US Army, 1950. — 116 p. Pamphlet was prepared by a committee of former German officers at the EUCOM Historical Division Interrogation Enclosure, Neustadt, Germany, in late 1947 and early 1948.
Washington: Departament of Army, 1952. — 98 p. The impact of abrupt climate change on the conduct and course of hostilities on the Eastern front and the unwillingness of the Wehrmacht and the German air force to them.
Armed Forces, Department of the Army Pamphlet, 1945. — 84 p "TO THE AMERICAN SOLDIER — The purpose of the first part of this booklet is to introduce you to the Red Army soldier — the everyday "G.I." of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. You have heard and read a lot about him, now you are seeing and meeting him personally. He is your friend. He is your ally. He has fought...
Armed Forces, Department of the Army Pamphlet, 1945. — 84 p "TO THE AMERICAN SOLDIER — The purpose of the first part of this booklet is to introduce you to the Red Army soldier — the everyday "G.I." of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. You have heard and read a lot about him, now you are seeing and meeting him personally. He is your friend. He is your ally. He has fought...
Third edition. — Fort George G. Meade, Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency, 2013. — 90 p. This is the story of the U.S. Navy’s communications intelligence (COMINT) effort between 1924 and 1941. It traces the building of a program, under the Director of Naval Communications (OP-20), which extracted both radio and traffic intelligence from foreign military,...
Sceptre, 2019. — 320 p. The triumphant story of a group of young women who helped devised a winning strategy to defeat the Nazi U-boats and deliver a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts...
N.-Y.: Potomac Books Inc. , 2005. - 637 p. Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous...
N.-Y.: Potomac Books Inc. , 2005. - 637 p. Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous...
New York: Avon Books, 1968. - 287 pgs. The book is the result of a writing collaboration between a commanding officer and one of his men. Colonel William R. Peers, who would later rise to the rank of Lieutenant General, was commander of Detachment 101 from December, 1943 to July 1945, and before that, the Operations and Training Officer. Dean Brelis, who later became a novelist...
Columbia: University of Missouri, 1993. — 147 p. Perlmutter's hard-hitting, revisionist history of Roosevelt's foreign policy explores FDR's not-so-grand alliance with the ruthless Soviet leader. As the first Western scholar granted access to key foreign ministry documents recently declassified in the former Soviet Union, Perlmutter provides a provocative portrait of a popular...
München: Südwest Verlag, 1976 ISBN: 3517005487 258 p., PDF 366 Mb (in 3 parts) 2,7 Millionen Pferde, große und kleine, Warm- und Kaltblüter, zogen für Führer und Vaterland ins Feld, erheblich mehr als im Ersten Weltkrieg, damals waren es "nur" 1,4 Millionen. Immerhin waren es 19 (!) Nationen, die jeweils zum letzen Mal in ihrere Geschichte ihr Kriegsglück auf dem Rücken der...
München: Südwest Verlag, 1976 ISBN: 3517005487 258 p., PDF 366 Mb (in 3 parts) 2,7 Millionen Pferde, große und kleine, Warm- und Kaltblüter, zogen für Führer und Vaterland ins Feld, erheblich mehr als im Ersten Weltkrieg, damals waren es "nur" 1,4 Millionen. Immerhin waren es 19 (!) Nationen, die jeweils zum letzen Mal in ihrere Geschichte ihr Kriegsglück auf dem Rücken der...
München: Südwest Verlag, 1976 ISBN: 3517005487 258 p., PDF 366 Mb (in 3 parts) 2,7 Millionen Pferde, große und kleine, Warm- und Kaltblüter, zogen für Führer und Vaterland ins Feld, erheblich mehr als im Ersten Weltkrieg, damals waren es "nur" 1,4 Millionen. Immerhin waren es 19 (!) Nationen, die jeweils zum letzen Mal in ihrere Geschichte ihr Kriegsglück auf dem Rücken der...
New American Library, 2011. — 336 p. A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II. The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced in history. But the greatest of clashes would prove...
Yale University Press, 2015. - 360 p. From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler’s Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain’s defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time — war...
Random House, 1969. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0895770296, ISBN13: 978-0895770295. The book has a lot of 1st person stories from the war. There are maps, photos & short breakdowns of each theatre of operations & the major battles in them. The combination of good writing and great photography, In this book the editors of the Reader's Digest present in text and photographs the story of...
Bennington, Vermont: The Merriam Press, n.d. (c. 1985). - 15 pgs. This is a reprint by Merriam Press (Military Study #167) of a report written in 1948 by Captain George A. Reed, US Army Field Artillery, held in manuscript by The National Archives. It is the almost unknown story of self-propelled 75mm guns on half-tracks, manned by US-Filipino crews, which fought the Japanese...
New York: Public Affairs, 2006. — 327 p. — ISBN10: 9781586483579; ISBN13: 978-1586483579. This vivid and harrowing narrative history of the most notorious concentration camp of the Holocaust preserves the authentic voices of survivors and perpetrators. The largest mass murder in human history took place in World War II at Auschwitz. Yet its story is not fully known. In...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1526700599. Voices of the Second World War: A Child's Perspective is a collection of firsthand accounts from people who experienced the Second World War from all over Europe: stretching from Russia to the Channel Islands, and Norway to Malta. While some children appear to have been hardly aware of the war, for those who lived through...
Regnery History, 2019. — 396 p. — ISBN: 978-1-621577-35-X. He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard of. Sidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to...
Online edition, 2009. — 735 p. — ISBN: 9780061874499 Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George Marshall and Alan Brooke met for the first time in the Oval Office of the White House at noon on Sunday 21 June 1942. Scheduled as a routine strategy session, it was to turn into one of the most significant moments of the Second World War. Roosevelt and Churchill had arrived...
London: Greenhill, 2001. - 319 pgs. The Bloody Road to Tunis is a sweeping look at the ejection of the Axis forces from Tunisia by the British and American armies in 1942-1943. Most American readers are familiar with the battles around Kasserine Pass. While these are undoubtedly important for the development of the US Army in World War II, they are but a small part of the...
Little, Brown and Company, 1962. — 246 p. The Fortunes Of War: Four Great Battles Of World War II was a quick read. Four battles: Tarawa; Stalingrad; D-Day; Battle of the Bulge are covered in Rooney's quirky way but more seriously than his TV vignettes on 60 Minutes would become. Very American-centric in his reports on these battles but in line with the thinking of the war at...
New Studies in European History. Cambridge UP. 2005. - 526 p. Language: English. What if the Nazis had triumphed in World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? What if Hitler had become a successful artist instead of a politician? This pioneering study explores why such counterfactual questions on the subject of Nazism have...
Appleton, WI: Rosholt House II, 1978. - 188 pgs. (Part 1 of 2) In the summer of 1941, months before America was drawn into World War II by the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small group of American military pilots was secretly being recruited to augment China's Air Force. These roughly 100 pilots and 200 support crew were officials known as "The First American Volunteer Group" or...
Appleton, WI: Rosholt House II, 1978. - 188 pgs. (Part 2 of 2) In the summer of 1941, months before America was drawn into World War II by the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small group of American military pilots was secretly being recruited to augment China's Air Force. These roughly 100 pilots and 200 support crew were officials known as "The First American Volunteer Group" or...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 64 p. — ISBN10: 1849081751. — ISBN13: 978-1849081757. Following Churchill's directive to 'set occupied Europe ablaze,' the SOE and later its American sister organization, the OSS, were deployed across the continent. Outnumbered, surrounded and in great peril, these brave agents were armed with a wide variety of devices to help them achieve their...
Paperback: 64 p. Publisher: Osprey Publishing; 1st Ed. edition (April 21, 2009). Language: English. ISBN10: 1846034507. ISBN13: 978-1846034503. Booby traps laid by troops in war zones in World War II (1939-1945) are largely neglected in histories and memoirs, and rarely examined in detail. Yet for a soldier, the threat of booby traps was hugely significant and the ability to...
Greenwood Press, 2002. — 477 p. Covering all Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book is a detailed, single source of information on virtually every geo-military aspect of the Pacific Theater. Arranged regionally and, to the extent possible, chronologically according to when islands entered the war, entries provide complete background information....
Concord Publications Company, 2006. — 54 p. This 54 p. photo book from Concord examines the early World War II German soldiers who, as the pioneers of a new type of warfare; the Blitzkrieg, would overrun Western Europe and ultimately take control of Continental Europe. All within 43 days of the spring of 1940.
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 296 p. The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in Asia, especially in India. Japan's successful tactics in Malaya — rapid marches, wide...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 459 p. During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of soldiers of the Indian Army. The...
Routledge, 2018. — 288 p. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the land war during the Second World War in South-East Asia and the South and South-West Pacific. The extensive existing literature focuses on particular armies – Japanese, British, American, Australian or Indian – and/or on particular theatres – the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaya or...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. — 357 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-14090-3. During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of World War II, remained secret...
Cambridge, Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1979. — 210 p. The author, Vice-Admiral Friedrich Ruge, served in the German navy from 1914 through 1945, then again when it was reborn in 1955. Hence, from his planning of various German naval operations during World War II and then as an intelligence officer researching the Soviet navy during the 1950s, Ruge has the expertise to write on this...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. - 158 pgs. The Japanese attack on the Philippines started on December 8, 1941, just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American aircraft were entirely destroyed on the ground. Japanese troops landed at the Lingayen Gulf on December 22 and advanced across central Luzon towards Manila. MacArthur concentrated his troops on the...
Pen & Sword Military, 2007. — 226 p. Unlike the few other books written on the catastrophic fall of Crete in May 1941, this book concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20 May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30 May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of both sides, the book contains numerous...
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. — XV, 356 p. — ISBN: 1-57806-482-1 I want to emphasize for the reader that «The War of Our Childhood» is not a book about politics or ideology. Nor is it a book about right or wrong, about war or blame. Rather, it is a connected narrative about the consequences of war visited upon children. Although many of the stories reflect the...
Welcome Books, 2010. — 226 p. World War II remains one of the most galvanizing and defining events in the history of America. Seemingly overnight, the entire nation unified behind a singular cause. By 1945, the size of the U.S. armed forces had grown from two to twelve million men and women of every color, religion, and creed. Young people from every walk of life were inducted...
Combat Studies Institute, 1982 — 66 p. (eng) One of the more perplexing problems contemporary military planners face is that of conducting night operations. Psychologically, night has always been a realm of the unknown and the uncertain, magnified by imagination. While dealing with this psychological barrier to the conduct of battle at night, the soldier must also cope with a...
Pen & Sword Military, 2005. — 224 p. In 1942, with the outcome of the war very much in the balance, there was a pressing need for military success on mainland Europe. Churchill ordered Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations HQ to take the war to the Germans. The Canadians were selected for the Dieppe raid, which, while a morale raiser, was a disaster. Over 3,000 men...
Washington, National Archives and Records Administration, 2008. — 380 p. This reference information paper describes records relating to the Nazioperated Mauthausen Concentration Camp Complex. These records of both U.S. civil and military agencies include documentation developed through wartime intelligence and reconnaissance, captured during the camps’ liberation, and generated...
London: Frontline Books, 2009. - 192 p. Erwin Rommel, Hitler’s so-called ‘Desert Fox’, is possibly the most famous German field marshal of WWII. He is widely regarded as one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare and, in contrast to other leaders of Nazi Germany, is considered to have been a chivalrous and humane officer. The letters of his adjutant provide a unique...
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1943. - 215 pgs. Seagrave was a medical missionary in Burma before World War II. The book begins with stories from his decades in the hill districts of northern Burma. It concludes with the Japanese invasion in 1941 when he became a lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He and his Kachin nurses set up a military hospital and ended up...
New York: American Heritage Publishing, Horizon Caravel Book, 1967. -155 pgs. The struggle for the north African coast of the Mediterranean-a struggle for oil and airfields and strategic position-was unlike any other campaign of World War II. This narrative of the three-year-long seesaw battle makes extensive use of eyewitness accounts and is illustrated with photographs,...
Concord Publications Co., 2011. — 54 p. Battles of Smolensk & Roslavl (1941) is written by Hans Seidler and published by Concord Publications Company. The book is an illustrated history of the pivotal battles early during the German invasion of Russia. It comes with commentary and black and white photos. The book features several color plates of soldiers in uniform.
Columbus, 2004. — 194 s. Jazyk: český jazyk. Nejděsivější konflikt v dějinách Kniha je chronologickou historií válečného konfliktu. Jsou v ní popisovány události na všech bojištích, rozhodující bitvy, stejně jako boje ve vzduchu a na moři. Součástí knihy jsou i zvláštní kapitoly pojednávající o klíčových osobnostech války. Vše je doplněno spoustou dokumentárních fotografií....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 262 p. Cutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War Two (1939-1945), showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures, ideological and psychological influences, and the attitude of the wider...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 664 p. For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 351 p. Germany’s 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to an insurgency as bloody as any in World War II. The Wehrmacht waged a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in response, and by 1943 German troops in Yugoslavia were engaged in operations that ranked among the largest of the entire European war. Their actions encompassed massive reprisal...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 136 p. — ISBN10: 1137347686; ISBN13: 978-1137347688. Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in Battalion Aid Stations...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2001. — 160 p. — (Battleground Europe Series). — ISBN10: 0850527368, ISBN13: 978-0850527360. The fortunes of war and clear-headed decisions by commanders on the scene combined to make Utah Beach the most successful and least costly of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. Strong ocean currents and the confusion of battle placed the landing force a mile...
Random House, 2013. — 368 p. One of America’s most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greatest tank battle of World War II — an epic clash of machines and men that matched the indomitable will of the Soviet Red Army against the awesome might of the Nazi Wehrmacht. While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2009. — 400 p. Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army's fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing...
Infantry journal Press, 1947. — 566 p. An extraordinary job -- this comprehensive picture of all phases of World War II, which, in spite of the many military details of warfare in all parts of the world, never neglects the significance of the individual campaign or battle and its relationship to the overall military picture. Full credit is given each country for its...
Battlefront miniatures Ltd, 2010. — 87 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9864514-4-7. The Soviet Invasion of Eastern Europe October 1944 - February 1945 Our very latest Late-war Eastern Front book for Flames Of War isStalin’s Europe. It’s a project I’ve been working on over the last year and combines a whole bunch of my favourite World War II subjects. The book covers the Soviet invasion of...
Battlefront Miniatures Ltd., 2008. — 74 p. Great book if you are interested in the German 21st Panzer or several British and Canadian units. Offers great organizational charts for making Tank Companies, Infantry or mechanized lists. Full color. Lots of great pictures and info for Flames of War. This is a campaign book set in the aftermath of Normandy and the focus is the series...
The Crowood press, 2004. — 200 p. Comparative table of ranks The Bismarck Operation Berlin Preparing for the operation Operation Rheinubung begins First blood After the battle Bismarck alone The Home Fleet`s hunt Night Approaches The Final battle Home Fleet returns Damages to the Bismarck
Routledge Curzon, 2004. — 227 p. The neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union, signed in April 1941, lapsed only nine months before its expiry date of April 1946 when the Soviet Union attacked Japan. Japan's neutrality had enabled Stalin to move Far Eastern forces to the German front where they contributed significantly to Soviet victories from Moscow to Berlin....
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 271 p. The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy's desire for a carrier-based dive-bomber and RAF's preference for a fighter. Despite being the first to shoot down a Luftwaffe aircraft in World War II, early operations in...
New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 2004. — 512 p. : ill., maps. This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific — told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service. In this new book by the authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory of World War...
New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1101903473; ISBN13: 978-1101903476. • Mark Lynton History Prize, finalist. • Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, winner. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based...
CIA, 1948. — 15 p. CIA, 1948. - 15 p. CIA report CIA-rdp82-00039R000100110060-3 analyzes the effectiveness and capabilities of Soviet military medicine in the rear and at the front in 1941-1945. Materials of the book Smirnova E. I. "Soviet military doctors in the Patriotic war", the year of publication of the book - 1946 are used. Smirnov E. I. from 1941 to 1945, the chief of...
ABC-Clio Inc., 2005. — 1859 p. — ISBN13: 9781851098576. ABC-CLIO's "World War II: A Student Encyclopedia" captures the monumental sweep of the "Big One" with accessible scholarship, a student-friendly, image-rich design, and a variety of tools specifically crafted for the novice researcher. For teachers and curriculum specialists, it is a thoroughly contemporary and...
Department of National Defence, Canada, Ottawa, 1948. — 401 p. This volume has been prepared in order that the people of Canada may have in their hands at as early a date as possible an authentic comprehensive outline of the work of their Army in the War of 1939-1945 against Germany, Italy and Japan and their satellites. In no previous conflict did the military forces of Canada...
Ottawa, Published by Authority of the Minister of National Defence, 1960. — 821 p. IS is the third and final volume of the Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. The first and second volumes, dealing respectively with events in Canada, Britain and the Pacific and with the campaign in Italy, were published in 1955 and 1956. A volume dealing with military...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — xvi, 440 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-08760-6. In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, then less than 100 km away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xvi, 483 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76847-4. Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the East, and the summer of 1941 is...
Stanford, California: Die Wehrmacht, 1972. - 150 pgs. A rather hagiographic collection of pictures apparently from Signal and official photographers. The author wishes to point out the folowing: the Afrikakorps was not specially trained nor equipped; it was sent to Africa with the bulk of the men wearing heavy continental clothing; in the beginning, vehicles were in standard...
New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1980. — 128 p. — ISBN: 0-517-541904, ISBN: 0-517-541912 (pbk.) Edward Steichen was the foremost photographer of ourtime. Atthe age of sixty-three he was called upon by the U.S. Navy to head their Navy Photographic Unit in the Pacific, right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. From then until the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, Captain Edward...
Washington: Operations Evaluation Group Office of The Chief of Naval Operations NAVY Department, 1946. — 193 p. OEG report No. 51. Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Columbia University Division of War Research under contract OEMsr-1131 with the Office of Scientific Research and Development. This report...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. — 338 p. Fascism as an Alternative Political Culture. Georges Sorel and the Antimaterialist Revision of Marxism. The Foundations of the "Correction" of Marxism. Antirationalism and Activism: The Social Myths. Anti-Cartesianism and Pessimism. The Junction of Sorelianism and Nationalism. Revolutionary Revisionism in France. The "New...
Collective. — Imagine Publishing, 2019. — 160 p. — (All About History). The Second World War left indelible marks on both the landscape and the people, not just of Britain and Germany, but the world. This book aims to put the well-known stories, memories and ruins of the war into context, and bring to life the events that led to these lasting changes. Find out how the war...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2010. — 208 p. The Battle of Britain and the Atlantic and the Blitz are invariably the focus of books and perceptions of the air war over and around Britain during the Second World War. Yet, it was Britain’s more exposed eastern flank, from the South Foreland in the south to Bridlington in the north that faced nearly six years of unrelenting attacks by...
Routledge. 2004. - 283 p. Language: English. Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization, collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and genocide; with local nationalism, local nationalist rivalries, and local...
New York: Ballantine, 1968. - 158 pgs. The Long Range Desert Group was formed by Ralph Bagnold in 1940 and played a major part in the Allies victory in North Africa in World War Two. The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) became the forward eyes and ears of the Allies and together with the Special Air Service played a secretive but vital role for the Allies. The LRDG were to get...
New York: Ballantine, 1969. - 158 pgs. Japanese air and naval attacks on British and United States bases in Malaya and the Philippines were coordinated with the December 7, 1941, assault on Pearl Harbor. Japan's Southern Army quickly moved from bases in southern Indochina and Hainan to attack southern Thailand and northern Malaya on December 8. The Japanese easily captured...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 441 p. Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the soldiers have become...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 792 p. 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 at work today. World War II at...
Second Edition. — Hamish Hamilton, 1963. (File 98 p.) A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling "The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking...
Penguin UK, 1991. — 357 p. — ISBN 978-0140136722. A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling The Origins of the Second World War overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what...
Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1992. — 264 p. A B-24 bombardier's "bird's-eye" view of the China-Burma-India theater of war. Much has been written about the contributions of B-24 Liberators and their bombardiers in Europe in WW II. This book is especially interesting because it provides an interesting narrative and observations of a B-24 Bombardier in the CBI...
Washington: OSS, 1941. — 144 p. Upon the outbreak or hostilities, in 1939, the German armed forces totaled about 2 million men. In June 1941 they totaled 9 million, of whoa about half have been engaged on the Eastern front. A tentative estimate places German battle casualties in the war against Russia at 1,500,000 to December 10. To some extent these losses have been filled by...
Pictorial statistics designed by David Ellison. — London: Lawrence & Wishart, [1941]. — 80 p. : plates, ports., diagrs. Pictorial statistics Material resources. Budget of the U.S.S.R. For 1941 Position of the U.S.S.R. In world production New factory construction Output of producers’ goods Output of consumers’ goods Agriculture Transport Railways The Red army and air force Rate...
Pictorial statistics designed by David Ellison. — London: Lawrence & Wishart, [1941]. — 80 p. : plates, ports., diagrs. Pictorial statistics Material resources. Budget of the U.S.S.R. For 1941 Position of the U.S.S.R. In world production New factory construction Output of producers’ goods Output of consumers’ goods Agriculture Transport Railways The Red army and air force Rate...
Second Edition. — Washington: Infantry Journal Inc, 1944. — 228 p. Materials far the Use of Army Orientation Course. These years were technically years of peace in Europe and Asia. As a matter of fact, there was no actual declaration of war in China until after Pearl Harbor, and Japan chose to call her all-out attack on China "The China Incident." This made it unnecessary for...
Long Akre, London: Odhams Press Limited, 1946. — 256 p. A pictorial record of the 6th year of WWII covering from September 1944 to 2nd September 1945 & the official signing of the Japanese surrender.
Washington: OSS, 1942. — 100 p. Printed for the Board of Analysts. Description of events in the theaters of hostilities of the Second World War for a specified period of time.
Washington: OSS, 1942. — 113 p. Printed for the Board of Analysts. Description of events in the theaters of hostilities of the Second World War for a specified period of time.
Washington: OSS, 1942. — 99 p. Printed for the Board of Analysts. Description of events in the theaters of hostilities of the Second World War for a specified period of time.
London: Ebury Press, 2010. — 398 p. From the end of 1941 to 1945, a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II — the Burma Campaign. In 1941, the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese — an enemy more prepared, better organized, and more powerful than anyone had imagined. Yet in 1944,...
Washington, War Department, United States Government Printing Office, 1941. — 273 p. Recruitment and mobilization Organization Uniforms, insignia, and personal equipment Armament and equipment Ammunition Supply and evacuation Training, efficiency, discipline, and morale Tactics of the Japanese Army Conventional signs and abbreviations Military terms and characters Appendix....
Washington, War Department, United States Government Printing Office, 1942. — 364 p. Recruitment and mobilization Organization Uniforms, insignia, and personal equipment Armament and equipment Ammunition Supply and evacuation Training, efficiency, discipline, and morale Tactics of the Japanese Army Conventional signs and abbreviations Military terms and characters Appendix....
Washington: War Department, United States Government Printing Office, 1943. — 480 p. Distinctive Branches, or Specialties Semimilitary Forces Recruitment and Mobilization System of Conscription and Mobilization Professional Cadre and Officers Training, Efficiency, and Morale Pay and Emoluments Organization Command and Staff Administration Higher Units Infantry Cavalry Land...
Washington: War Department, Government Printing Office, 1944. — 401 p. Recruitment and training. General Conscription system Procurement of officers Training Promotion, pay and awards Morale, discipline, and efficiency Japanese military system. The Japanese High Command Territorial organizations, including depot divisions Field replacement system Field organization. Major...
New York, The Modern Library, 2003. — 2540 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8041-8095-5. Part One: The Roots of War. Part Two: The Lowering Clouds. Part Three: Banzai. Part Four: Isle of Death. Part Five: The Gathering Forces. Part Six: The Decisive Battle. Part Seven: Beyond the Bitter End. Part Eight: " One Hundred Millions Die Together ". Epilogue.
Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies, 1986. — 40 p. This monograph analyzes the operational sustainment of liommel's forces in North Africa. Rommel's operations are examined from his arrival in North Africa in February 1941 through his last offensive to destroy the British Eighth Army at El Alamein in August - September 1942. The purpose of the...
Sutton Publishing, 2004. — 191 p. — (Battle Zone Normandy). On D-Day, British XXX Corps was ordered to break open the German defenses on Gold Beach and advance to capture Bayeux. Its commander, Lieutenant-General G.C. Bucknall, chose the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, a veteran formation blooded in North Africa, to spearhead the landing, supported by 47 Royal Marine Commando....
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 4334 p. — ISBN10: 1851099689, 13 978-1851099689. With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war. Provides a clear understanding of the causes of World War II,...
Little Brown, 2013. — 433 p. From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the 'Filthy Fifth' grew -...
Annopolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 517 p. One of the largest and most complex military efforts ever undertaken, the Leyte Operation was the Allies' first and most important major combined operation to liberate the Philippine archipelago. The stakes were high: a successful landing at Leyte was critical to a subsequent assault on Luzon and total control of the Philippines....
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 240 p. When the Nazis invaded neutral Belgium in May 1940, defeat and occupation were inevitable but Belgian armed forces held out against a vastly superior enemy for 18 days. The elected Government went into exile in London but King Leopold III controversially remained with his people as a prisoner. As described in this authoritative book, Belgians...
Bad Nauheim: Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, 1981. — 178 Seiten. Der Bildband soll das seit Jahren vergriffene, 1955 erstmalig erschienene Buch der 78. Division ergänzen. Die Division wurde am 26. August 1939 als Division 2. Welle in Stuttgart aufgestellt. Während des Westfeldzuges wurde die Division nicht eingesetzt. Ab dem 22. Juni 1941 nahm die Division am Rußlandfeldzug teil und...
Bad Nauheim: Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, 1981. — 178 seiten. Das Bildband soll das seit Jahren vergriffene, 1955 erstmalig erschienene Buch der 78. Division ergänzen. Die Division wurde am 26. August 1939 als Division2. Welle in Stuttgart aufgestellt. Während des Westfeldzuges wurde die Division nicht eingesetzt. Ab dem 22. Juni 1941 nahm die Division am Rußlandfeldzug teil und stieß...
School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, 2010. — 27 p. This paper focuses on a Finnish women’s paramilitary organization called ‘Lotta Svärd’ in a wartime context, from 1939 to 1944. The aim is to find out what forms of accountability were shared by the women of Lotta Svärd. Three main forms of accountability were observed: Accountability to the nation took a...
Washington, D. C. : Center of Military History United States Army, 1990. - 162 p. he Admiralties: Operations of the 1st Cavalry Division (29 February-18 May 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...
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948. — 137 p. The Persia and Iraq Command was a Command of the British Army established during the Second World War in September 1942 in Baghdad. Its primary role was to secure from land and air attack the oilfields and oil installations in Persia (officially Iran) and Iraq. Its further role was to ensure the transport of supplies from...
Report. — Bolling: Air Force History Support Office, 1994. — 29 p. Gives details of the Army Air Forces' contribution to the Battle of the Atlantic. Maps, illustrations, photos, suggested readings. In 1942 the Allied powers faced the most serious challenge to their control of the seas encountered in the Second World War: the menace of the U-boat. Fast, wellarmed, and...
Santa-Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 222 p. Shows in illuminating detail how the Allied and Axis forces used visual images and other propaganda material to sway public opinion during World War II. Gives the reader primary source examples of World War II propaganda, answering the need for the study of images that is necessary in today's history study Includes a comprehensive...
Scarecrow Press, 2013. — 355 p. World War II dominates world history today as it dominated world attention over 60 years ago. In spite of the alliances that bound many of the same participants, the war was essentially two separate but simultaneous conflicts: one involved Japan as the major antagonist and took place mostly in Asia and Pacific; and the other, initiated by Germany...
Foreword by Nicholas Werth. — New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 819 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5107-1625-4 In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 272 p. This is the first detailed study of Britain's open-source intelligence (OSINT) operations during the Second World War, showing how accurate and influential OSINT could be and ultimately how those who analysed this intelligence would shape British post-war policy towards the Soviet Union. Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June...
2nd Edition. — Adams Media, 2007. — 368 p. — (Everything (History & Travel)). From Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 to the official end of World War II on 2 September 1945, The Eveything World War II Book, 2nd Edition provides readers with detailed information about the war that left no nation untouched. Clear maps and vivid photographs bring this war to life and illustrate...
New York: Avon Books, 1986. - 214 pgs. The story of Operation Northwind, Hitler's surprise attempt to smash through Alsace-Lorraine in January 1945, seen through the eyes of the young men who were "at the sharp end." Few except those who fought it know anything about a second Battle of the Bulge, which cost the Americans and their French comrades-in-arms nearly as many...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 131 p. — ISBN10: 331975470X; ISBN13: 978-3319754703 This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War. Developing a comparative history of this system of civil defense in Britain and Germany, it begins by exploring how the blackout was planned for in both countries, and how the threat of aerial bombing framed its...
Bennington, Vermont: Merriam Press, n.d. (c.1985). - 7 pgs. Merriam Press Military History Archives Fact File No. F-54. This short booklet details the member units of the 44th Indian Airborne Division from its formation at Quetta in May 1945 by conversion of the 44th Indian Armoured Division to Indian independence in 1947. During its existence, the division included a British...
London: Pen & Sword Military, 2009. — 240 p. — ISBN-10: 1844159264; ISBN-13: 978-1844159260 Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the rest of Europe. David Williamson, in this timely and thought-provoking study, reconstructs each stage of the...
Cassell, 1999. — 224 p. Until its loss in World War II, Japan had not known failure in centuries of warfare. This record of the conflict goes beyond mere description to illuminate why Japan instigated a conflict with the only nation--the United States--capable of defeating her, as well as the crucial shifts in the nature of naval power and strategy that occurred during the...
Covent Garden Books, 2008. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0756649142. It is arguably the single most dramatic event in human history. Decades after the last shot was fired, the battles may be fading from living memory, but the shock waves of World War II still resonate. This comprehensive history examines not just the many theaters of operations, but also provides a challenging analysis...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 480 p. — ISBN: 1681778807. The year 1943 saw the beginning of an unprecedented bombing campaign against Germany. Over the next twelve months, tens of thousands of aircrews flew across the North Sea to drop bombs on German cities. They were opposed not only by the full force of the Luftwaffe, but by a nightmare of flak, treacherously icy conditions, and...
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 160 p. The Eastern Front was the decisive theatre of World War 2 and the largest land campaign in history. Ostfront is a detailed account of Hilter's flawed invasion of Russia, where the German army and Luftwaffe fought the Red Army across a 1,200 mile frontier, in conditions ranging from baking heat to -40ºC.
Denton:: University of North Texas Press. - 352 p. ISBN: 1574412817 No published work examines General Henry H. Hap Arnold’s role in depth during the Pacific War of 1944-1945, in the context of planning for the destruction of Japan. In this new study, Herman S. Wolk, retired Senior Historian of the U.S. Air Force, examines the thinking of Hap Arnold, Commanding General, Army...
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands Department of Victims and Remembrance WWI, 2009. — 46 p. Pensions and Benefits Restitution Looted Art Remembrance Education Research International Judaica Research Heritage of War
New Orleans, The National WWII Museum, 2012. — 39 p. Using critical thinking and observation skills as well as prior knowledge, students will gain familiarity or reinforce knowledge of the chronology of WWII by matching images, descriptive captions and dates of 25 WWII events. This lesson makes a great WWII review.
2011. — 168 p. 168 p. of British intelligence files covering plans by the German intelligence agency, Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, also known as the SD, to install a "stay-behind" organization in Europe for use after the end of combat, to work behind Allied controls to build a Fourth Reich. The Sicherheitsdienst, which translates into English as Security Service, was...
An affiliate of Alexander Autographs. — Chesapeake City: Alexander Auction book, 2013. — 157 p. There’s certainly been a lot of water under the bridge since then. As is the case with everyone, sometimes urgent personal matters call for one’s complete attention, at the cost of time devoted to business. I’m happy to report that that “late unpleasantness” is now behind us, and...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. — 103 p. — (Battles That Changed the World). Recalls the events leading to the Battle of Midway (04-07 June 1942), in which the U.S. Navy defeated a Japanese fleet, resulting in the Japanese adoption of a defensive strategy instead of an offensive strategy, leading to their eventual surrender.
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2012. — 215 p. Fighter Operations in Europe and North Africa 1939-1945 tells the story of Allied and German fighter pilots in Europe, over the Mediterranean and in North Africa during the Second World War. The book starts with the early skirmishes as each side tested the other’s defenses, moves through the Battle of Britain and then the Blitz, when the...
Pen and Sword, 2003. — 224 p. The strategic importance of Malta sitting astride both the Axis and Allied supply routes in the Mediterranean was obvious to both sides during WW2. As a result the Island became the focal point in a prolonged and dreadful struggle that cost the lives of thousands of servicemen and civilians. After setting the scene for the action, this book tells...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 224 p. Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was a turning point second only to Pearl Harbor. Russia became an ally overnight but a most difficult, dangerous and demanding one. Stalin desperately needed oil, equipment and modern technology but the only practical route was round the North Cape to the ports of Archangel and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 207 p. The Pacific Naval War 1941-1945 is an account of the war between the Allies and the Japanese. This was primarily a naval war as sea power allowed the Japanese to mount their attack on Pearl Harbor and then advance westwards and southwards, and it was sea power that enabled the Allies to strike back and even take the war to Japan itself....
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 224 p. The battle of Iwo Jima (1945) was extraordinary for its ferocity. US Marine Corps casualties exceeded by thousands the number of Japanese defenders, who fought almost to the last man over those five desperate weeks. The strategic justification for the mission has been challenged and the iconic photograph of the flag-raising was staged, but...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 320 p. Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women. Initially the Red Air Force maintained an all-male policy among its combat pilots. However, as the apparently invincible German juggernaut sliced through Soviet defenses, the Red Air Force began to rethink its ban on...
Hippocrene Books, 1990. — 195 p. The Polish Campaign of 1939 was the first violent demonstration of the effectiveness of the Blitzkrief tactics of the German Army. This book takes little-known Polish documentary sources to provide a look at the battles from the perspective of the Polish Army.
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