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AuthorHouse World War II A Worms Eye View
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Harvard Common Press Invasion Rabaul The Epic Story of Lark Force the Forgotten Garrison January July 1942 01 Rabaul Trilogy
Book SynopsisInvasion Rabaul is a gut-wrenching account of courage and sacrifice, folly and disaster, as seen through the eyes of the Allied defenders who survived the Japanese assault on New Britain during the opening days of World War II.
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Random House USA Inc Wine and War
Book SynopsisThe remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II.'To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine.' -Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’ArgentIn 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown-until now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and stands as a tribute to extraordinary individuals who waged a battle that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.
£13.09
Psr Press Ltd. Polish Intelligentsia in Nazi Concentration Camps and American Exile a Study of Values in Crisis Situations
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Mira Books The Lieutenants Nurse
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Mira Books Red Sky Over Hawaii
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Park Row Code Name Sapphire
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Park Row Books The Diplomats Wife 2 Kommandants Girl
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Heritage Books Guns Up Depth Charges Readied
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Heritage Books Enemy Waters
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Rosetta Books The Collapse of the Third Republic
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Grove Atlantic Burma 44
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Grove Press Only When I Larf
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St. Martins Press-3PL Eisenhower A Soldiers Life
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Holt McDougal An Army at Dawn
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war.?The Washington Post Book WorldThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943.Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algiers, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. At the center of the tale are the extraordinary but flawed commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson''s vivid narrative tells the deeply human story of a monumental battle for the future of civilization.
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St Martin's Press Day of Battle
Book SynopsisThe second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, Monte Cassino, and more under the command of controversial Lt. General Mark Clark, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
£21.60
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group I Never Saw Another Butterfly Childrens Drawings
Book SynopsisFifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations.
£17.09
John Wiley & Sons Infantry Soldier Holding the Lines at the Battle of the Bulge
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Zhukov
Book SynopsisMarshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. In this completely updated version of his classic 1971 biography of Zhukov, Otto Preston Chaney provides the definitive account of the man and his achievements.Trade ReviewA thorough examination of a great soldier that belongs in every military library."" - World War II
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Penguin Random House LLC Burned Child Seeks the Fire A Memoir
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Random House Publishing Group The Last 100 Days
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Random House USA Inc The Greatest Generation
Book SynopsisThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years. In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage, sacrifice, and honor. From military heroes to community leaders to ordinary citizens, he profiles men and women who served their country with valor, then came home and transformed it: Senator Daniel Inouye, decorated at the front, fighting prejudice at home; Martha Settle Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs; Charles Van Gorder, a doctor who set up a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of battle, then opened a small clinic in his hometown; Navy pilot and future president George H. W. Bush, assigned to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, who says that in doing so he &l
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Wayne State University Press The Politics of Genocide Holocaust in Hungary The Holocaust in Hungary Condensed Edition
Book SynopsisAn abbreviated version of this work first published in 1981, and revised and expanded in 1994. The book explains in a rational and empirical context the historical, political, communal, and socioeconomic factors that contributed to the unfolding of this tragedy.Trade ReviewWayne State University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have done students of the Holocaust and of modern Eastern-Central Europe a great service by releasing a condensed edition of Randolph Braham's classic study...The Politics of Genocide will remain the exhaustive and comprehensive point of reference for all future investigation into the history of the Holocaust in Hungary. Readers interested in an introduction to the many issues involved can do no better than to begin with this revised edition." – Paul Hanebrink, Rutgers University"This is a book that should be read and understood by the widest possible readership Clearly, it belongs on the shelves of serious Holocaust scholars and should also find an important niche in college level courses on the Holocaust and/or Jewish History . . . magnificent work." – Dr. Abraham J. Edelheit, assistant professor of History at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York."Professor Braham's The Politics of Genocide, is the most comprehensive and meticulously researched book in the literature of the Holocaust in general and Hungary in particular. . . . the standard and unsurpassed account of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry." – Bernard Klein, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York"[T]his book will bring the history of the Holocaust in Hungary to a wide range of readers: scholars, teachers, undergraduates and graduate students. It is an abridgment of a monumental work and the remainder presents itself as a simply smaller monument." — Sidney Bolkosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn"The earlier majestic editions of The Politics of Genocide provided the English-speaking public with vivid and accurate information on European Jewry's ultimate tragedy, the Holocaust in Hungary, which took place lass than a year before the end of World War II. The book's Hungarian version caused a nation-wide re-thinking of the role Hungarians had played in that event. This abbreviated version should be read by students, scholars, and all those concerned with genocide at any time and in any country." – Istvan Deak, Columbia University
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Wayne State University Press Arsenal of Democracy
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New York University Press The Crash of Ruin American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II
Book SynopsisIn the ruined Europe of World War II, American soldiers on the front lines had no eye for breathtaking vistas or romantic settings. The brutality of battle profoundly darkened their perceptions of the Old World. As the only means of international travel for the masses, the military exposed millions of Americans to a Europe in swift, catastrophic decline. Drawing on soldiers' diaries, letters, poems, and songs, Peter Schrijvers offers a compelling account of the experiences of U.S. combat ground forces: their struggles with the European terrain and seasons, their confrontations with soldiers, and their often startling encounters with civilians. Schrijvers relays how the GIs became so desensitized and dehumanized that the sight of dead animals often evoked more compassion than the sight of enemy dead. The Crash of Ruin concludes with a dramatic and moving account of the final Allied offensive into German-held territory and the soldiers' bearing witness to the ultimate symbol of Europe'sTrade Review"This terrifying, remarkable work examines the attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of U.S. fighting men in the Pacific theater during World War II. Imaginatively drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, military reports, and contemporary psychological assessments, Schrijvers reveals the social, historical, and emotional roots of the peculiarly frenzied and merciless war...this temperate study of murderous fury is among the most unsettling books I've read in years." -The Atlantic Monthly "A brilliant contribution to intercultural studies. It imaginatively combines the 'new' military history with an older American Studies research and writing technique. Not only will the book attract a wide range of readers, it should also stimulate scholars to adopt this approach to many other topics in cultural studies." -William R. Childs,author of Trucking and the Public Interest "One of the most remarkable books I have ever come across. A significant and fascinating contribution to the field. The Crash of Ruin should appeal to a large audience of readers interested in World War II history." -Edward M. Coffman,author of The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I "The Crash of Ruin offers the reader both intellectual and emotional rewards... Its narrative power makes it a wonderful read." -Susan M. Hartmann,The Ohio State University
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University of Hawai'i Press The Thought War
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCompletely individual and very interesting.... Kushner's book is, I think, the first to treat propaganda as a profession in wartime Japan. He follows it through its various stages and is particularly interested in its popular acceptance - wartime comedy, variety shows, how entertainers sought to bolster their careers by adopting the prewar message, which then filtered down into society and took hold. Using almost entirely primary materials, which have not before been translated, Barak re-creates the wartime world in which propaganda was the truth. In so doing, he has given us an eminently readable account of an unknown aspect of the war and has defined our understanding of it." — Japan Times"[The Thought War] reveals a good deal more about Japan at war than has been available heretofore in Western languages.... This soundly researched book highlights the multiple, often ill-coordinated sources of Japan's wartime propaganda.... [It] should help considerably in advancing the urgent project of defining and assessing responsibility, not only for Japan but for all combatants, and not only for World War II but for all conflicts and modes of political violence." — Journal of Japanese Studies
£18.95
Vanderbilt University Press The Holocaust and Other Genocides
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£68.88
Vanderbilt University Press The Holocaust and Other Genocides
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Unforgettable Army
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Sapere Books And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
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Sapere Books Pattons Gap
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Collaboration and Resistance Reviewed Writers and la Mode Retro in PostGaullist France v 7 Berg French Studies
Book SynopsisAlan Morris Senior Lecturer in French,University of StrathclydeTable of ContentsLa mode retro - new myths for old; the heritage 1940-1969; the mechanisms of demythification; why a mode retro?; first among orphans; Pascal Jardin, Marie Chaix and Evelyne Le Garrec; Patrick Modiano.
£150.00
University of Tennessee Press Echoes From The Holocaust
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Mercer University Press One Step Ahead of Hitler
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North River Press Lies of War
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MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni And Peace Never Came
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Long Nights Journey into Day Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan 19411945
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Random House Publishing Group Wahoo The Patrol of Americas Most Famous World War II Submarine The Patrols of Americas Most Famous World War II Submarine
Book SynopsisThe career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles. Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the astonishing Dudley W. “Mush” Morton, whose originality and daring new techniques led to results unprecedented in naval history; among them, successful “down the throat” barrage against an attacking Japanese destroyer, voracious surface-running gun attacks, and the sinking of a four-ship convoy in one day. Wahoo took the war to Japan’s front porch, and Morton became known as the Navy’s most aggressive and successful sea raider. Now, in a new quality paperback edition, her full story is told by the person most qualified to tell it—her executive officer Richard O’Kane, who went on to become the leading submarine captain of the Second World War.Praise for Wahoo“Th
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Random House Publishing Group The Black Sheep The Definitive Account of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
Book SynopsisWith their renowned squadron leader Greg “Pappy” Boyington, Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214 was one of the best-known and most colorful combat units of World War II. The popular television series Baa Baa Black Sheep added to their legend—while obscuring the truly remarkable combat record of the Black Sheep and Boyington. A retired naval flight officer and former historian for the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, Bruce Gamble provides a highly readable account that serves to both correct and extend the record of this premier fighting force.
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Presidio Press Death Traps The Survival of an American Armored
Book Synopsis“An important contribution to the history of World War II . . . I have never before been able to learn so much about maintenance methods of an armored division, with precise details that underline the importance of the work, along with descriptions of how the job was done.”—Russell F. Weigley, author of Eisenhower’s Lieutenants“Cooper saw more of the war than most junior officers, and he writes about it better than almost anyone. . . . His stories are vivid, enlightening, full of life—and of pain, sorrow, horror, and triumph.”—Stephen E. Ambrose, from his Foreword “In a down-to-earth style, Death Traps tells the compelling story of one man’s assignment to the famous 3rd Armored Division that spearheaded the American advance from Normandy into Germany. Cooper served as an ordnance officer with the forward elements and was responsible for coordinating the recover
£9.22
University Press of the Pacific Pearl Harbor Why How Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal
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University Press of the Pacific Strategy for Defeat the Luftwaffe 1933 1945
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University of Alaska Press ThousandMile War World War II in Alaska and the
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Stealth Genius
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