Modern warfare Books
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Absolute War
Book SynopsisIn Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. With breadth of scope and a surfeit of new information, this is the definitive history of a conflict whose reverberations are still felt today.
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Random House USA Inc The Last Ridge The Epic Story of Americas First
Book SynopsisWhen World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939-40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet army to its knees, an amateur skier named Charles Minot “Minnie” Dole convinced the United States Army to let him recruit an extraordinary assortment of European expatriates, wealthy ski bums, mountaineers, and thrill-seekers and form them into a unique band of Alpine soldiers. These men endured nearly three years of grueling training in the Colorado Rockies and in the process set new standards for both soldiering and mountaineering. The newly forged 10th Mountain Division finally faced combat in the winter of 1945, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, against the seemingly unbreakable German fortifications north of the Gothic Line. There, they planned and executed what is still regarded as the most daring series of nighttime mountain attacks in U.S. military history,
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Random House USA Inc An Album of Memories
Book Synopsis“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American experience, from the centers of power to the most humble corners of the land.”—Tom BrokawIn this beautiful American family album of stories from the Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in people’s own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March. A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation. Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war—in such historic
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WW Norton & Co Up Front
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation.
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WW Norton & Co Lili Marlene
Book SynopsisThe dramatic story of an iconic love song, its three creators, and their lives under the Nazis.Trade Review"A fascinating story. Lively and well-informed, this book tells it all, with lots of attention to the travails of those involved." -- Atlantic Monthly"Not even the most iconic of songs necessarily deserves its very own biography, but in the case of that Second World War classic, "Lili Marlene," dear to soldiers and civilians on both sides, there really is a fascinating story to tell. Forged in the crucible of 20th-century German history, a First World War favorite composers, recorded by an ambitious, anti-Nazi singer. Lively and well-informed, this book tells it all, with lots of attention to the travails of those involved. Nazi music had some rousing tunes, but generally the lyrics were rebarbative. Here the sentiments are unobjectionable and universal, just made for a time when the shadow of the barracks gate was bound to heighten romance under lamplight for a world at war." -- The Atlantic
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W. W. Norton & Company Pacific Crucible
Book SynopsisThe planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics—on both sides—illuminating the greatest naval war in history.Trade Review"An entertaining, impressively researched chronicle of the tense period between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and American victory at the battle of Midway." -- Kirkus"The research is thorough, the writing clear, and the narrative flow exemplary...it is difficult to think of a recent book on this subject that is of such consistently outstanding value." -- Booklist"Well documented—albeit from previously published materials—and well written. Experienced World War II history buffs may bypass if they feel no need to read another retelling of this phase of the Pacific War, but nonspecialists and general readers will want to consider it." -- LibraryJournal.com
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WW Norton & Co The Conquering Tide
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island.Trade Review"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative, carrying the reader smoothly from the marble halls of Washington to the Pacific’s gritty, red-stained beaches." -- Jonathan W. Jordan - Wall Street Journal"A gripping narrative of the central Pacific campaign…. Toll is strong on the operational details of battle, but he is no less skilled at presenting something that is frequently missing from military histories, a well-rounded depiction of the home front on both sides." -- Walter R. Borneman - New York Times Book Review"Heavily researched…. Toll’s absorbing text flows smoothly and quickly, helped along by anecdotes and stories involving combatants and political leaders on both sides." -- S. I. Dunn - Dallas Morning News"In The Conquering Tide, Ian Toll takes his place as one of the great storytellers of war. He is equally vivid and commanding describing landing on a carrier at night, making grand strategy in Washington, and brawling in a bar in Australia. Toll is a master; he is writing for the ages." -- Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder and Ike's Bluff"A lucid and learned exposition of the grand chess match between high commanders in the middle years of the Pacific War, vividly evoking the grit and gristle of its many horrors and triumphs. Ian W. Toll is a superb historian whose writing appeals to both the head and the heart." -- James D. Hornfischer, author of Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
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WW Norton & Co Swansong 1945 A Collective Diary of the Last
Book SynopsisA monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before.Trade Review"An emotionally immediate and multi-faceted perspective of the last days of the Third Reich… No mere anthology but an artful collage… Difficult to put down." -- Gerald Steinacher - Wall Street Journal"A disturbing but compulsively readable slice of history." -- Christian Science Monitor"From the absurd to the sublime, and everywhere heartbreaking: a collage of voices from the tail end of the world's conflagration.… Raw [and] tremendously moving… Riveting." -- Kirkus (starred review)"This is a book that can be read comfortably only page by page. Otherwise it will break your heart." -- Bill Marvel - Dallas Morning News"Riveting… Kempowski's careful selection and sequencing convey the horror, misery, irony, and intensity of living through the last month of war in Germany. The work is noteworthy not just for its unique first-person perspective, but also for its breadth and depth… Essential." -- Publishers Weekly"A treasure… [Swansong 1945] offer[s] powerful glimpses into otherwise lost history… The collection is a kaleidoscope of voices, revealing struggle of all kinds." -- Sarah Grant - Booklist (starred review)"The power of [Swansong 1945] comes from the great variety and volume of the personal accounts, many of them eloquent and moving… This important book takes us beyond geography, statistics and battles and reveals the cost of war in very human terms." -- Roger Bishop - BookPage"A unique and haunting insight into what it was like to live through the violent twilight of the Third Reich. Indispensable and, above all, unforgettable." -- Frederick Taylor, author of Dresden"A remarkable collage of experiences and impressions of the catastrophic last days of the Second World War, which provides a unique panorama of the war and a very powerful impression of its impact on and the responses of those involved." -- Jeremy Noakes, author of Nazism 1919-1945"A bewitching, dramatic, utterly extraordinary range of voices and eyewitness testimony as Europe entered its year-zero moment." -- David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain"A rare combination of aesthetic and historic truths… What gives Kempowski’s work its reach and humanity is his keen eye for both the sensory experience of war at its most destructive and individuals’ compulsion to go on making sense of it as it engulfed them." -- Nicholas Stargardt, author of Witnesses of War"Amidst the fascinating multitude of voices assembled here the one that speaks most powerfully is that of Kempowski himself. This is a remarkable document of one person’s lifelong struggle to make sense of national collapse." -- Neil Gregor, author of Haunted City"Kempowski is a master of form and proportion… The end of the war has never before been depicted like this." -- Volker Hage, author of Hamburg 1943
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WW Norton & Co The Great Escape
Book Synopsis"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale." —Philadelphia InquirerTrade Review"One of the great true stories of the war, and one of the greatest escape narratives of all time." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Absorbing... spine-tingling... puts the average war book so far in the shadow it's not even funny." -- Dallas Times Herald"For sheer suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame." -- Boston Globe
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WW Norton & Co The Spanish Civil War Reaction Revolution and
Book SynopsisThe definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.
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WW Norton & Co Winners Losers
Book SynopsisThe National Book Awardwinning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war's fiftieth anniversary.Trade Review"Sensitive, moral, compelling . . . a book of genuine greatness and largeness of spirit." -- Chicago Tribune"Magnificent. . . . [Emerson’s] interviews are superb." -- Newsweek"A great book . . . alternately shrewd, angry, funny, knowing." -- David Halberstam
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Random House USA Inc War without Mercy
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Houghton Mifflin The Second World War Volume 1 The Gathering Storm
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Houghton Mifflin The Second World War Volume 6 Triumph and Tragedy
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Houghton Mifflin Memoirs of the Second World War
Book SynopsisFormer Prime Minister of Great Britain and Nobel Prizewinner Winston Churchill''s quintessential account of the Second World War.As not only the most powerful player in World War II, but also the most eloquent voice of defiance in the face of Nazi tyranny, Churchill recounts this epic time in world history. Remarkable for his grand sweep and incisive firsthand observations, Memoirs of the Second World War is a vital and illuminating work that retains the drama, eyewitness details, and magisterial prose of his classic six-volume history. Churchill''s accounts offers an invaluable view of pivotal events of the twentieth century.
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Basic Books The German War A Nation Under Arms 19391945
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2015 Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review "A dramatic look at the lives of ordinary German men and women during World War II." New York Times Book Review "[A] gripping new book... To write like this requires a rare sensitivity and psychological sophistication coupled with a degree of fearlessness... Stargardt impresses not only as a cultural historian. He also has an impressively strong grasp on the military narrative of the war. And this is indispensable... Stargardt has given us a truly profound piece of history." The Guardian "This vivid history of everyday life captures the complex feelings of ordinary Germans under the Nazi regime... A superb study." Wall Street Journal "Nicholas Stargardt's...gracefully written The German War offers by far the most comprehensive and readable guide to these issues...This is splendid scholarship... Anyone interested in National Socialist Germany, World War II and the many murderous regimes that still disfigure the earth should relish The German War." Economist "[Stargardt's] method of using letters and diaries of ordinary Germans yields unexpected insights, both into the Germans' humanity and their turn to barbarism." New York Review of Books "[Stargardt] draws on diaries, letters, and contemporary documents to paint a huge social canvas of Germans at war, soldiers and civilians, men and women of all ages... [he] tells his bleak story fluently and well, and illustrates it with a host of telling and often unfamiliar anecdotes." Washington Post, Richard Cohen "In his new and excellent book, 'The German War,' Oxford University historian Nicholas Stargardt exhumes the letters and diaries of German soldiers and others. He details how a cultured nation went insane, how ordinary soldiers became mass killers and how the churches of Germany looked the other way as the innocent were murdered." Foreign Affairs "Enthralling... Stargardt puts together a complex portrait of a nation gripped by patriotism and resentment, thrilled by early military victories, and proud of the fighting skills of the Wehrmacht." Forbes.com, Steve Forbes "The German War brilliantly and with impressive nuance and texture deals with the astounding questions of how the most educated and cultured nation on earth could unloose such a murderous, barbarous and genocidal war... Stargardt smoothly and vividly weaves together the stories of more than a score of individual Germans from all walks of life and the unfolding events of the war." Independent (UK) Trying to make sense of the mood and thoughts of 80 million-odd people is an immense task but Nicholas Stargardt has made a terrifically good stab at it. Spectator, (UK) "Superbly researched and clearly written, The German War is an important and significant book." The Observer "[T]his is a beautifully written and, yes, sensitive and subtle portrayal of war. The author deftly weaves individual tales with surprising observation." Times Higher Education "Ambitious... Stargardt's book is a prodigious accomplishment, as he manages to keep us in touch with the grand sweep of the war, as well as its ebb and flow, without losing sight of specific soldiers' behaviour. Its treasure trove of interesting information, clever observations and fresh insights make The German War essential reading for anyone interested in the Second World War in Europe." Washington Times "Exhaustive... A first-rate historical read." Washington Book Review "An important addition to the growing number of books on the history of WWII... a very insightful study." Roanoake Times "Exhaustively researched, well-written... well and unblinkingly told." Kirkus Reviews "[A] massive but thorough meditation... A well-researched, unsettling social history of war that will prove deeply thought-provoking--even worrying--for readers who wonder what they might have done under the same circumstances."
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Mariner Books When Books Went to War The Stories That Helped Us
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Presidio Press NeptuneS Inferno
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Avonmore Books Bombers North
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of new sources, Bombers North presents for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia during 1942-1945.Trade ReviewA lot in here that I had previously been unaware of so I for one found this a particularly interesting book to read. * Military Model Scene *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the Author Glossary & Abbreviations Maps Introduction Chapter 1 Overview Chapter 2 The Bombers Chapter 3 The Opponents: Fighters and AA Guns Chapter 4 The Allies Strike Back Chapter 5 The End of the Beginning Chapter 6 A Turning of the Tide, and the Dutch arrive Chapter 7 Bigger, Better and Faster Chapter 8 The Catalinas arrive; the Allies Apply Pressure Chapter 9 A New Wing and New Aircraft Chapter 10 Trading Hudsons for Beauforts – and the Black Cats fly Chapter 11 The Americans and the Dutch depart; Lucky 13 returns Chapter 12 No. 2 Squadron operations and the RAAF‘s heavies take over Chapter 13 The RAAF heavies move forward Chapter 14 The Cats fly to China, and the war’s end Conclusion Appendix 1 No.18 NEI Squadron and its Australian roots by Elmer Mesman Appendix 2 Flying in RAAF Bombers – Brian Winspear’s Story Main Sources Index of Names
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Avonmore Books Pacific Adversaries Volume One Japanese Army Air
Book SynopsisThis volume conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. This first volume describes confrontations between the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) and the Allies in New Guinea and the Solomons.Table of ContentsIntroduction Glossary Japanese Aircraft Types Chapter 1 The Lucky Shot Chapter 2 Collision Over Lae Chapter 3 The Battle Which Never Was Chapter 4 Takehashi Meets Deblanc Chapter 5 Kamikaze or Miscalculation? Chapter 6 A Long Legacy Chapter 7 The Nama-Namba Man Chapter 8 Sole Survivor – Bombura’s Tale Chapter 9 Medal of Honor Chapter 10 Fire-Breathing Dragon-Slayer Chapter 11 Sally in the Mountains Chapter 12 The Rare Sonia Chapter 13 Mitchell Destroyed Chapter 14 Two Boomers Down Chapter 15 Ten Knights in a Bar Room Chapter 16 The Last Dragon Sources
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Avonmore Books Pacific Adversaries Volume Three Imperial
Book SynopsisPacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. This third volume describes confrontations between the air arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the Allies in New Guinea and the Solomons.Trade ReviewAs with all Claringbould books, the prose and details offers compelling reading. * Historical Miniatures Gaming Society *Once again, Michael John Claringbould has presented a wide-ranging selection of events from the Pacific War, some well-known and some virtually unknown. Each is well researched and documented, and accompanied with numerous illustrations based on extensive research, giving the modeler the reference to create a specific replica with its own unique story to tell. * IMPS/USA 22/03/2021 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Big Splash Luckiest Men in the Pacific Confused Identity Emily versus Bessie Higai’s Demise Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre Disappearing Betty Nighthawk Night Fighters Ace in a Day? Dual Medal of Honor Fortress Moresby’s Final Raid Novel Night Fighter The White Mug Beaufighter Surprise Kiwi Wingco Down The Last Rabaul Fighter Commander Sources
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Avonmore Books Eagles over Darwin American Airmen defending
Book SynopsisIn 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States. Flying P-40E Warhawks, the pilots of the 49th Fighter Group fought a brave and innovative campaign against a stronger enemy that did much to safeguard Australia in its darkest hour.Trade Review…the level or research, the quality of graphics, and the readability are exceptional. […] It is a subject area not covered often and it is a worthy addition to the bookshelves of readers with an interest in early Southwest Pacific air campaigns of World War Two. * Aviation Enthusiast Book Club *
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Avonmore Books Nemotos Travels The Illustrated Saga of a
Book SynopsisThe illustrated diary of Japanese Navy floatplane pilot Warrant Officer Nemoto Kumesako, dating from the early months of the Pacific War, presented in a style consistent with the Japanese manga format.Trade ReviewGreat book if you want to read about a year in the life of a Japanese Navy AF floatplane pilot and even better if you want to relive the exciting times from days gone by when you looked forward to reading the latest comic mag from the drugstore or newspaper seller. * J-AIRCRAFT 05/07/2021 *This is a unique story told in an unconventional format that certainly opened this reviewer’s eyes to the Manga or graphic novel format for telling military history. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the South Pacific air campaigns, Japanese aircrew personal accounts. * Aviation Enthusiast Book Club 31/08/2021 *
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Harvard University Press Fighters in the Shadows A New History of the French Resistance
Book SynopsisRobert Gildea s penetrating history of France during World War II sweeps aside the French Resistance of a thousand cliches. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris s liberation in 1944.Trade ReviewWith its deep concern for human failings, and for the suffering that came from bravery that was badly channeled or poorly rewarded, Gildea’s book might have been dark and pessimistic. In fact it is vivid with real life and ordinary heroism. In this, what is an apparently straightforward aim—that Gildea felt it was high time to give resistance fighters their voice in the story—is in fact deeply important… The relentless, persistent way in which Gildea gives voice to a kaleidoscope of men and women of different nationalities and races does more than any author before him to provide a convincingly complex and moving account of the ways in which people in France took up arms against the Vichy state and the Nazi occupation. This book cuts against the grain of classic narratives, not by setting out counter-narratives but by asking for our attention, for a page or two at a time, to listen to detail: the real-life detail of the frustrations, the suffering and heroism of people who exist at several removes from the grand shapers of history. -- Julian Wright * Times Literary Supplement *An important new book…[Gildea] blends top-down history with the bottom-up stories of those who schemed, improvised, grabbed chances and risked their lives. * The Economist *[An] ambitious overview of the Vichy years…There have been many excellent recent books, both in French and in English…on France during the resistance years. What Gildea has done is to step back and look at the wider picture, thereby providing a context for the individual acts of courage, which he celebrates in moving detail. He gives recognition to the widest range of participants, many of them little known, and to the categories who did not fit well into the postwar myth of heroism, and that is perhaps his most important contribution to the field. -- Caroline Moorhead * The Guardian *Deeply researched [and] sophisticated…The picture of the Resistance movement to emerge in Gildea’s account is far, far more complicated and morally ambiguous than the myth would suggest…Gildea is at his best in conveying a richly textured picture of the Resistance as diverse in makeup, motivation, and strategy…Gildea’s masterly account of the liberation of Paris, and of de Gaulle’s crafty work in outmaneuvering the Communist effort to spark a people’s uprising, is one of the highlights of this fine contribution to our understanding of World War II’s most important resistance movement. -- James A. Warren * Daily Beast *Scrupulous, evenhanded reconsideration of the fighters of the French Resistance and how the patriotic myth became central to the identity of postwar France. Employing a refreshing approach to the history of this traumatic epoch by sticking with firsthand testimony, both written and oral, Gildea restores some of the marginalized voices so crucial to the story: women, communists, and foreigners…Gildea proceeds step by step in the buildup to resistance, which required both an internal and external network, especially from de Gaulle’s Allied base in London. Moreover, the liberation by the Americans of North Africa in November 1942 proved to be the ‘hinge’ in galvanizing resistance and clarifying the Vichy versus Free French struggle. A masterly, painstakingly researched study incorporating the urgent stories of the resisters themselves. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *This book is a must-read. It paints on a broad canvas the story of the men and the women, French and foreign, who fought and fell in the ranks of the French Resistance, following the interior resistance and the Free French, political movements, Allied intelligence networks and the maquis. Gildea confronts the dissensions that divided the Resistance and evokes the many and complex emotions experienced by its fighters. He has accomplished a tour de force. -- Guillaume Piketty, Professor of History, Sciences Po, ParisGildea is among the best historians writing today about French identity, and specifically about how France’s national myths have been re-formed over the past 75 years…His compellingly detailed—and lengthy—book brings forth the testimonies of many résistants and résistantes that have been gathering dust in archives, in museums, in forgotten memoirs and in the memories of still living actors in the drama. He has done a daunting amount of research, ranging from an almost archaeological fascination with the layers of myth surrounding the meaning of ‘resistance’ to compassionate interviews with survivors and their descendants. Fighters in the Shadows gives us a cacophony of voices, subtly orchestrated by a historian who loves France, yet one who respects historical objectivity…Gildea is meticulous in his analysis of how the French have remembered this fateful half-decade in their history. In the final chapters, he deftly leads us through the minefield of postwar collective memory. -- Ronald C. Rosbottom * Wall Street Journal *
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Arcadia Publishing Hampton Roads The World War II Years Images of
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Arcadia Publishing World War II Chicago Images of America Arcadia
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Arcadia Publishing World War II Shipyards by the Bay Images of
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Arcadia Publishing Farragut Naval Training Station Images of America
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The History Press Ltd The Last Raid
Book SynopsisWhen Germany occupied the originally `demilitarised’ Channel Islands in 1940, Hitler ordered the area to be staunchly fortified with colossal permanent structures like Battery Moltke on Jersey.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The 79th Fighter Group Over Tunisia Sicily and
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Blohm Voss Bv 141
Book SynopsisA concise history pictorial of Richard Vogt''s well known asymmetrical flying machine. Includes many never before published photographs and schematics.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Wilfried Sonnenthalâs Memories of the WaffenSS
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd SturmgeschÃtz
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Johns Hopkins University Press Officer Nurse Woman
Book SynopsisOfficer, Nurse, Woman brings to light the nearly forgotten contributions of brave nurses who risked their lives to bring medical care to soldiers during a terrible-and divisive-war.Trade ReviewVuic offers an important new contribution to how we understand women's participation in the U.S. military after World War II. -- Tanya L. Roth H-Minerva, H-Net Reviews 2010 Vuic's book is important reading for anyone wanting a more thorough understanding of more than just the Vietnam War or nursing history. Its relevance also encompasses enduring complexities of gender, cultural representations, and collective memory. Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Utilizing a feminist paradigm, Kara Dixon Vuic's evocative and unique dissection of the collective gender experiences of Army Nurse Corps officers in Vietnam and its aftermath breaks new ground in the history of military nursing... I found Officer, Nurse, Woman quite intriguing. I can unreservedly recommend it as a valuable addition to the literature documenting nurse participation in the Vietnam War. -- Mary T. Sarnecky, DNSc, RN Nursing History Review 2011 Excellent study... The strength of this book is Vuic's main source: nurses who served in Vietnam... Officer, Nurse,Woman enriches a growing body of literature on second-wave feminism's broad impact and successfully challenges and complicates the dominant narrative of military history and destabilizes familiar categories-especially our notions about women and war. -- Susan Gelfand Malka Journal of American History 2010 A well researched, well written account that will be used by professors and students who wish to understand better the complexity of gendered military service. -- D'Ann Campbell Journal of Military History Provides an important foundation for understanding how military women reflect social and cultural gender roles, how institutions respond to and influence gender norms, and how the response shapes and challenges our understanding of citizenship and nation... Vuic's book will be important for scholars of the time period as well as those interested in gender, women's work, nursing history, and the military. -- Julie Fairman Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2010 The best one volume treatment available that integrates the personal experiences of nurses with a nuanced understanding of social, political, military, gender, and women's history alongside feminist theory. Minerva: Women and War This is a wonderful book, chock full of oral history and riveting personal stories. It makes a meaningful contribution to Vietnam War and twentieth-century gender historiography. -- Penelope Adams Moon Historian 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Lady, you're in the army now"1. "The Bright Adventure of Army Nursing": Meeting Nursing Demands for the Vietnam War2. "An officer and a gentleman": Gender and a Changing Army3. "A wonderful, horrible experience": Nursing Education and Practice4. "Helmets and hair curlers": Gender and Wartime Nursing5. "I'm afraid we're going to have to just change our ways": Wives, Mothers, and Pregnant Nurses in the Army6. "You mean we get women over here?": Gender and Sexuality in the War Zone7. "Not All Women Wore Love Beads in the Sixties": Postwar Depictions of Vietnam War NursesConclusion: Officers, Nurses, and WomenNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Henry Holt & Company The Day of Battle
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and ItalyIn An Army at Dawnwinner of the Pulitzer PrizeRick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome.The Italian campaign''s outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino wer
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Holt McDougal The Second World War
Book SynopsisMartin Gilbert's presents A magisterial (New York Times) single-volume history of the Second World War. It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day-August 14, 1945 -it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war in history, taking the lives of thirty million people. In one brilliant volume, eminent historian Martin Gilbert offers the complete history of WWII. With unparalleled scholarship and breadth of vision, Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill as well as one of the leading experts on the Holocaust, weaves together political, military, diplomatic, and civilian elements to provide a global perspective on the war, in a work that is both a treasure trove of information and a gripping, dramatic narrative. In his transmission of the horror
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Presidio Press Citizens of London
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR’s Lend-Lease program in London; and John Gilbert Winant, the shy, idealistic U.S. ambassador to Britain. Each man formed close ties with Winston Churchill—so much so that all became romantically involved with members of the prime minister’s family. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, Lynne Olson skillfully depicts the dramatic personal journeys of these men who, determined to save Britain from Hitler, helped convince a cautious Franklin Roosevelt and reluctant American public to back the British at a critical time. Deeply human, brilliantly researched, and beautifully written, Citizens of London is a new
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Random House USA Inc The Hardest Place
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The University Press of Kentucky The Unknown Dead
Book SynopsisRenowned historian Peter Schrijvers, a native Belgian, describes the horrific war crimes committed by German military units on the front lines and by Nazi security services behind the battle lines, as well as the devastating effects of Allied responses to the enemy threat, including massive bombings of small towns.
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The University Press of Kentucky Replacing France The Origins of American
Book SynopsisUsing recently released archival materials, Replacing France explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s.Trade ReviewFresh and important. Statler provides persuasive answers to some of the key questions about the decisions that led the United States into Vietnam. - Mark Atwood Lawrence, author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in VietnamTable of ContentsIntroduction 'A Most Disagreeable Mirror': Race Consciousness as Double Consciousness The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory, and the 2008 Presidential Race James Baldwin and the Politics of Disconnection What William F. Buckley Jr. Did Not Understand About James Baldwin: On Baldwin's Politics of Freedom Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics The Negative Political Theology of James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith Socrates in a Different Key: James Baldwin and Race in America Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women's Liberation and James Baldwin's Early Essays 'Where the People Can Sing, the Poet Can Live': James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism Baldwin's Individualism and Critique of Property James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal James Baldwin and #BlackLivesMatter Tell Him I'm Gone: On the Margins in High Tech City
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The University Press of Kentucky The War That Never Ends New Perspectives on the
Book SynopsisThe War That Never Ends sheds new light on the evolving historical meanings of the Vietnam War, its enduring influence on current matters of global significance, and its potential to influence American foreign policy, in times of peace and war.Trade ReviewThese excellent essays by some of the leading historians of the war represent the best of the new international history - reassessing traditional interpretations, exploring new questions and neglected aspects of the conflict, and drawing on extensive research in recently accessible archival material in Vietnam and elsewhere. - Andrew L. Johns, coeditor of The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War ""Does an excellent job posing and answering the question of why Vietnam still matters and why it will remain the 'war that never ends'."" - Kathryn C. Statler, author of Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam
£56.62
The University Press of Kentucky The USS Flier Death and Survival on a World War
Book SynopsisNoted historian Michael Sturma's vivid recounting of the harrowing story of the USS Flier has all the elements of a classic World War II survival tale: sudden disaster, physical deprivation, a ruthless enemy, friendly guerrillas, and a dramatic escape from behind enemy lines.
£56.62
The University Press of Kentucky Striking Back Combat in Korea MarchApril 1951
Book SynopsisStriking Back: Combat in Korea, March-April 1951 is the second book in a three-volume series about the Korean War, examining the fighting that occurred during the late winter and early spring of the war's first year.
£60.71
The University Press of Kentucky Surface and Destroy The Submarine Gun War in the
Book SynopsisExplores the nature of submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean during World War II and investigates the challenges of facing the enemy on the surface. This is a thorough analysis of the submariner experience and the effects of surface attacks on the war in the Pacific, offering a compelling study of the battles that became “intolerably personal”.
£34.20
The University Press of Kentucky Endkampf Soldiers Civilians and the Death of the
Book SynopsisFritz examines the predicament and outlook of American GI's, German soldiers and officials, and the civilian population caught in the arduous fighting during the waning days of World War II.
£25.65
The University Press of Kentucky Surface and Destroy The Submarine Gun War in the
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£23.00
The University Press of Kentucky Team 19 in Vietnam An Australian Soldier at War
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£32.00
The University Press of Kentucky Southern Voices
Book SynopsisFirsthand accounts add a new layer to the history of the Vietnam War and its aftermath.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction History of Biet Dong Saigon Gia Dinh Committee Tu Cang, NLF Senior Officer Bay Son, Biet Dong Senior Officer Nguyen Huu Loi, Biet Dong Soldier Ms. Le Hong Quan, NLF Soldier Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Nga, Biet Dong Soldier Ms. Do T
£27.00
