Second World War Books
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Teacher of Auschwitz
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Penguin Books Ltd At Dawn We Slept The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Book SynopsisRevisit the definitive book on Pearl Harbor in advance of the 78th anniversary (December 7, 2019) of the date which will live in infamyAt 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S. Naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. As intense and absorbing as a suspense novel, At Dawn We Slept is the unparalleled and exhaustive account of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is widely regarded as the definitive assessment of the events surrounding one of the most daring and brilliant naval operations of all time. Through extensive research and interviews with American and Japanese leaders, Gordon W. Prange has written a remarkable historical account of the assault that-sixty years later-America cannot forget.The reader is bound to feel its power....It is impossible to forget such an account. —The New York Times Book ReviewTrade ReviewPrange's exhaustive interviews of people on both sides enable him to tell the story in such personal terms that the reader is bound to feel its power....It is impossible to forget such an account. —The New York Times Book ReviewDiligent, thorough, and evenhanded...At Dawn We Slept is the definitive account of Pearl Harbor. —Chicago Sun-Times “Fast-paced and engrossing . . . if any book can be called ‘definitive,’ At Dawn We Slept deserves the accolade.”—Los Angeles Herald Examiner“It will be the single, essential work on the subject from now on.”—Houston Chronicle“An unparalleled historical achievement . . . the account reads with the intensity of a suspense novel.”—Milwaukee Journal“From first to last—responsible, intelligent, absorbing . . . the book is most outstanding.” —Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsAt Dawn We Slept - Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon IntroductionPrefacePart I: Prelude1. "Cancer of the Pacific"2. "On a Moonlight Night or at Dawn"3. "Difficult But Not Impossible"4. "No Credence in These Rumors"5. "You Hurt the President's Feelings"6. "That Must Henceforth Bear Responsibility"7. "Our First Concern Is to Protect the Fleet"8. "The Hotbed of Espionage"9. "In Rather a Spot"10. "The Most Likely and Dangerous Form of Attack"11. "How Can Air Power Be Used Most Effectively?"12. "The Real Power and Potentialities"13. "With Guarded Approval"14. "The Strongest Fortress in the World"15. "Critical in the Atlantic"16. "The Kiss of Death"17. "Japan's Foreign Policy Will Not Be Changed"18. "As If He Were Beyond Penalty"19. "We Want Hustlers!"20. "Plenty of Potential Dynamite"21. "A Cunning Dragon Seemingly Asleep"22. "Prophetic in Its Accuracy"23. "Present Attitude and Plans"24. "A Very Strong Fighting Spirit"25. "Resolved to Go to War"26. "Waves and Winds So Unsettled"27. "A Serious Study"28. "The War Games"29. "Time Was Running Out"30. "But What About the Pacific?"31. "A Significant and Ominous Change"32. "No Matter What the Cost"33. "Now the Clouds Were Raised"34. "The Power, the Purpose and the Plan"35. "Pearl Harbor Will Be Attacked"36. "We Should Be on Guard"37. "As One with the Combined Fleet"Part II: Action38. "Other Kind of People"39. "Based on Deception"40. "In the Hands of God"41. "Complete War Preparations"42. "Ringing Bells and Banging Drums"43. "I Swear to Be Successful"44. "A Situation Full of Dynamite"45. "Things Are Automatically Going to Happen"46. "Wherever It Might Be Found"47. "Cleave the Enemy in Two!"48. "A Match for Anything Afloat"49. "That Was the Monkey Wrench"50. "To Be Considered a War Warning"51. "Our Diplomats Will Have to Be Sacrificed"52. "The Vacant Sea"53. "Glory or Oblivion"54. "Great Unease in All of Our Minds"55. "Sure Indication of War"56. "Another Straw in the Wind"57. "On a Keg of Dynamite"58. "This Means War"59. "The Japs Are Planning Some Deviltry"60. "An Awful Urgency"61. "Tora! Tora! Tora!"62. "Sound General Quarters"63. "They Caught Them Asleep, by God!"64. "Oh, How Powerful Is the Imperial Navy!"65. "The Chance of a Lifetime"Part III: Aftermath66. "An Excitement Indeed"67. "Our Flag Was Still There"68. "Clouds Over Mountains"69. "Not on the Alert"70. "Dereliction of Duty"71. "The Ashes of a Bitter Past"72. "Something Ought to Be Done"73. "Full and Fair Disclosure"74. "We Have a Job to Do"75. "Errors of Judgment"76. "We Want the Truth"77. "A Partisan Matter"78. "The Evidence Piles Up"79. "A Fighting Chance"80. "Fixing the Blame"81. "The Verdict of History"AfterwordAppendixNotesAbbreviations Used in TextSource MaterialList of Major PersonnelThe Pearl Harbor InvestigationsSelected BibliographyRevisionists RevisitedIndex
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Penguin Putnam Inc Guadalcanal
Book Synopsis“Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.”—LA Times Book Review The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor—marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7,000 Americans and over 30,000 Japanese. This volume, ten years in the writing, recounts the full story of the critical campaign for Guadalcanal and is based on first-time translations of official Japanese Defense Agency accounts and recently declassified U.S. radio intelligence, Guadalcanal recreates the battle—on land, at sea, and in the air—as never before: it examines the feelings of both American and Japanese soldiers, the strategies and conflicts of their commanders, and the strengths and weaknesses of various fighting units.
£21.25
Alpha Books DDay
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Penguin Publishing Group Taste of War World War II and the Battle for Food
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£19.20
Penguin Putnam Inc Clementine
Book Synopsis“Engrossing…the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines.”–The New York TimesFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller A Woman of No Importance, a long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate dynamic of one of history’s most fateful marriages. Late in life, Winston Churchill claimed that victory in the Second World War would have been “impossible” without the woman who stood by his side for fifty-seven turbulent years. Why, then, do we know so little about her? In this landmark biography, a finalist for the Plutarch prize, Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine Churchill her due. Born into impecunious aristocracy, the young Clementine Hozier was the target of cruel snobbery. Many wondered why Winston married her, when the prim
£17.10
Penguin Putnam Inc Blood and Ruins
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Oxford University Press Hitler A Biography
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Oxford University Press World War II A History in Documents Pages from
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsWhat is a Document? How to Read a Document Introduction Note on Sources and Interpretation 1. To War, Again Aggressor Nations From Appeasement to War Dark Days for the Allies 2. Fighting Men and Women Men and Women in War Combat Misery Killing and Death Atrocity, War Crimes, Limitlessness 3. Mobilizing for Total War War Production Mobilizing Workers Allied Success 4. Home Front Sacrifice and Morale Forward Together Food and Rationing Bombing of Civilians Civil Liberties Fun on the Home Fronts 5. Picture Essay: Wartime Posters Send the Message 6. Turning Points toward Allied Victory Eastern Front The Second Front Pacific Theater 7. Peace Victory The Guilty Occupation From Hunger to a Better World? 8. War Memories The "Good War" and Other Memories Atrocities and Apologies Museums and Memorials Time Line Further Reading Websites Text Credits Picture Credits Acknowledgments Index About the Author
£59.00
OUP India The Greatest Raid
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OUP India The Hitler Conspiracies
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University of Chicago Press Serving the Reich
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The University of Chicago Press Jews in Nazi Berlin From Kristallnacht to
Book SynopsisDrawing on an archive that includes photographs, objects, official documents, and personal papers, this book assembles a multifaceted picture of Jewish daily life in the Nazi capital during the height of the regime's power. It covers such topics as emigration, the yellow star, Zionism, deportation, betrayal and survival.Trade Review"This unique and comprehensive collection of essays considers the Nazi destruction of Jewish life in Berlin between 1938 and 1945. Each facet in that process of destruction is described in meticulous detail, mainly by the victims themselves, and effectively conveyed by the volume's contributing authors in concise essays. There is nothing comparable in English that so thoroughly dissects the tragic consequences of the Nazi destruction of a Jewish community that had originally constituted about one-third of the entire Jewish population in pre-Nazi Germany." - Francis R. Nicosia, University of Vermont"
£999.99
University of Chicago Press Free to Die for Their Country The Story of the
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government drafted them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. This is the story of those who rejected the demands.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press In the House of the Hangman
Book SynopsisThe tremendous challenge that Allied officials faced as the war closed, then, was how to limn a post-war German identity without irrevocably damning its idea and character as a whole. This book chronicles this delicate process, exploring key debates about the Nazi past and German future during the later years of World War II and its aftermath.Trade Review"In the House of the Hangman is a moral drama that shows how postwar German officials tried to defend the dignity of the state and its citizens against the stigma of National Socialism and the Holocaust during the aftermath of World War II. This is a brilliant book that radically rejects reductive statements about the construction of memory and the invention of the past by recognizing the complexity of the relations between history and human experience." - Barry Schwartz, University of Georgia"
£999.99
The Perseus Books Group The Bedford Boys
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Hachette Books White Knights in the Black Orchestra
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£25.60
Random House USA Inc A Writer at War
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£15.26
Random House USA Inc Hitlers Charisma
Book SynopsisAt the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way as exceptional, but he did possess certain distinguishing characteristics: a capacity to hate, an inability to accept criticism, and a massive overconfidence in his own abilities. He was a socially and emotionally inadequate individual without direction, from whence came a sense of personal mission that would transform these weaknesses and liabilities into strengths—certainties that would provide him not only with a sense of identity, but of purpose in a communal enterprise. This is the focus of Laurence Rees’s social, psychological, and historical investigation into a personality that would end up articulating the hopes and dreams of millions of Germans.(With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations)
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Random House USA Inc Brave Genius
Book SynopsisThe never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research, Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals. It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary events--of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of creative genius, deep friendship, and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition.
£15.19
St Martin's Press Ivans War Life and Death in the Red Army 19391945
Book SynopsisUnmasking the Untold Story of World War IIOf the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe''s most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it.Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart and mind of Ivanas the ordinary Russian soldier was calledremain a mystery. We know something about how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought.Sourced from previously inaccessible military archives, personal diaries, and intimate veterans'' narratives, author Catherine Merridale unveils the untold journey of these soldiers from their first encounter with the German offensive to their hard-earned victory in Stalingrada place where survival was measured in mere hours.Ac
£19.20
Little, Brown & Company The Second World War
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Little, Brown Spark Asylum
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£14.44
Little Brown and Company A Bright and Blinding Sun
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£24.00
Back Bay Books The Snow Hare
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Back Bay Books Akin
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Back Bay Books The Age of Light
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Hachette Books Crucible of Hell
Book SynopsisFrom the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII''s Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them.With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America''s audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach southward across the Pacific and was renowned for the fanaticism and brutality of its fighters, who refused to surrender, even when faced with insurmountable odds. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa.The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the largest of the Pacific War and the greatest air-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops from Seattle, Leyte in the Philippines, and ports around the world. The campaign lasted for 83 blood-soaked days, as the fighting plumbed depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he had witnessed, referred to the fighting as the crucible of Hell. Okinawan civilians died in the tens of thousands: some were mistaken for soldiers by American troops; but as the US Marines spearheading the invasion drove further onto the island and Japanese defeat seemed inevitable, many more civilians took their own lives, some even murdering their own families. In just under three months, the world had changed irrevocably: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died; the war in Europe ended; America''s appetite for an invasion of Japan had waned, spurring President Truman to use other means -- ultimately atomic bombs -- to end the war; and more than 250,000 servicemen and civilians on or near the island of Okinawa had lost their lives. Drawing on archival research in the US, Japan, and the UK, and the original accounts of those who survived, Crucible of Hell tells the vivid, heart-rending story of the battle that changed not just the course of WWII, but the course of war, forever.
£18.04
Back Bay Books All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
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Little Brown and Company The War Begins in Paris
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£23.20
Random House Publishing Group Five Years Four Fronts
Book SynopsisAfter Hitler’s invasions of Poland and France came the Russian Front-and that’s when the real war started.An infantryman who rose from the enlisted ranks to regimental command in combat, Georg Grossjohann fought on four different fronts during World War II, but saw most of his fighting-from 1941 to 1944-against Russians in the Soviet Union and Romania. He provides shattering glimpses of the horror and chaos of the war, as well as profound insights into everyday life in the Wehrmacht.Five Years, Four Fronts chronicles the combat experiences of Grossjohann and his men as they triumphantly roll across Poland, France, and the sunny steppes of the Ukraine, only to ultimately sustain grinding defeats in the endless, freezing plains of the Soviet Union and the grim, dark Vosges Mountains of France. Grossjohann was a soldier’s soldier, respected by his men, undaunted by his superiors, and, as can be observed in this raw, brutally honest account,
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Our Man In Tokyo
Book SynopsisDrawing on Grew’s diary of his time in Tokyo as well as U.S. embassy correspondence, diplomatic dispatches, and firsthand Japanese accounts, Our Man in Tokyo brings to life a man who risked everything to avert another world war, the country where he staked it all—and the abyss that swallowed it.Trade Review"Our Man in Tokyo is meticulously researched, and Mr. Kemper mines Grew's diaries and other primary sources to great effect. . . . It is gripping history, offering both drama and suspense, even when we all know how the story will end." — Wall Street Journal "Expertly marshaled from Grew’s diaries and reports, this is a poignant and profound look at diplomacy in action." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “As the US ambassador to Putin’s Russia in the run-up to their first invasion of Ukraine, I found Our Man in Tokyo eerily familiar. Kemper’s book is the essential history of an ambassador’s efforts to preserve peace prior to World War II—a must-read if we’re to learn from history and avoid repeating it.” — Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia and New York Times bestselling author of From Cold War to Hot Peace “Richly detailed narrative . . . . compelling . . . . A fine account of an American diplomat who did his best to contain Japanese ambitions in the run-up to World War II.” — Kirkus Reviews "Steve Kemper’s splendid portrait of the American ambassador to Japan during the lead-up to World War II will be of interest to a wide range of history lovers." — BookPage (starred review) "An insightful and highly readable account of the lead up to Pearl Harbor. ... Excellent. ... Has a relevance to contemporary times that is most intriguing and gives the book an added value.” — Roman Popadiuk, president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, in The Cipher Brief (rated 4 out of 4 "trench coats") "An enthralling, meticulous account of the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. Ambassador Joseph Grew, my grandfather, dedicated ten years to searching for diplomatic solutions in Japan. Steve Kemper’s book honors this extraordinary man, with intriguing parallels to current events at home and abroad. It moved me deeply." — Lilla Lyon, granddaughter of Ambassador Joseph Grew "Engaging." — Japan Times "Great biographies are about more than the subject, they are about the subject's times. And even about our times. On this, Kemper succeeds unequivocally." — Wendell Jamieson, Book & Film Globe "Kemper's book portrays just how important diplomatic efforts and relationships are in defusing crises. Our Man in Tokyo should be required reading for national security leaders everywhere as we face growing challenges with China and Russia." — Lieutenant Commander Ryan Hilger, U.S. Navy, Proceedings, United States Naval Institute
£20.90
Mariner Books How To Find Your Way In The Dark
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDWINNER OF THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES[Miller’s] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment.”—New York Times Book Review With the wit and scope of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Derek B. Miller tackles his most ambitious epic yet. At its heart is the return of Sheldon Horowitz, the protagonist from Miller’s award-winning first novel, Norwegian by Night, who was lauded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo as “one of the most memorable characters . . . that I’ve encountered in years.”MEET SHELDON IN THE MORNING OF HIS LIFETwelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz
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Harper Perennial In the Full Light of the Sun
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Mariner Books 12 Seconds of Silence
Book SynopsisThe riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II—and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war 12 Seconds of Silence is the remarkable, lost story of how a ragtag group of American scientists overcame one of the toughest problems of World War II: shooting things out of the sky. Working in a secretive organization known as Section T, a team of physicists, engineers, and everyday Joes and Janes took on a devilish challenge. To help the Allies knock airplanes out of the air, they created one of the world’s first “smart weapons.” Against overwhelming odds and in a race against time, mustering every scrap of resource, ingenuity, and insight, the scientists of Section T would eventually save countless lives, rescue the city of London from the onslaught of a Nazi superweapon, and help bring about the
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Mariner Books The Animals at Lockwood Manor
Book SynopsisA debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection. In August 1939, thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor to oversee a natural history museum collection whose contents have been taken out of London for safekeeping. She is unprepared for the scale of protecting her charges from party guests, wild animals, the elements, the tyrannical Major Lockwood, and Luftwaffe bombs. Most of all, she is unprepared for the beautiful and haunted Lucy Lockwood. For Lucy, who has spent much of her life cloistered at Lockwood, suffering from bad nerves, the arrival of the museum brings with it new freedoms. But it also resurfaces memories of her late mother and nightmares in which Lucy roams Lockwood, hunting for something she has lost. When the animals appear to move of their own accord and exhibits go missing, Hetty and Lucy begin to wonder what exactly it is that they might need protection from. And as the disasters mount, it is not only Hetty’s future employment that is in danger but her own sanity. There’s something, or someone, in the house. Someone stalking her through its darkened corridors . . .
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc On the Horizon
Book SynopsisFrom two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak. Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning work in verse for young readers.On the Horizon tells the story of people whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Based on the lives of soldiers at Pearl Harbor and civilians in Hiroshima, On the Horizon contemplates humanity and war through verse that sings with pain, truth, and the importance of bridging cultural divides. This masterful work emphasizes empathy and understanding in search of commonality and friendship, vital lessons for students as well as citizens of today’s world. Kenard Pak’s stunning illustrations depict real-life people, places, and events, making for an incredibly vivid return to our collective past. In turns haunting, heartbreaking, and uplifting, On the Horizon will remind readers of the horrors and heroism in our past, as well as offer hope for our future.
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Random House USA Inc Franklin and Winston
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churc
£23.78
Random House USA Inc Album Of Memories Personal Histories from the
Book SynopsisA seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war — in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway — as well as their life on the home front. In this beautiful American family album of stories, reflections, memorabilia, and photographs, history comes alive and is preserved, in people’s own words and through photographs and time lines that commemorate important dates and events. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, on through the war in Europe and the Pacific, this unusual book preserves a people’s rich historical heritage and the legacy of the heroism of a nation.
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Alfred A. Knopf The War An Intimate History 19411945
Book SynopsisAn intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the most devastating war in history, as told through the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—it. • Includes maps and hundreds of photographs. Focusing on the citizens of four towns—Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.
£23.75
Random House USA Inc Armageddon
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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 I Will Bear Witness Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'In its cool, lucid style and power of observation,' said The New York Times, 'it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich.' I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany.
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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 The Zookeepers Wife A War Story
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain. A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
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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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