Modern warfare

The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary.

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II.

During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces.

In 1945 U.

The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds of liberated Parisians.

World War II could not have been won without the U.

For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded.

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf.

This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II.

During World War II Nathalie "e;Lily"e; Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy against their British enemy.

In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E.

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities.

As a combat medical aidman of Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, First Infantry Division, Allen N.

The United States relied heavily on bombing to defeat the Germans and the Japanese in World War II, and air raids were touted as "e;precision"e; bombing in American propaganda.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back.

This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role that the mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews as well as other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in Southeastern Europe played in transforming economic life and social relations.

Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in the Neutrality Act.

America's first West Coast armored and infantry training installation was built in California in 1941 and named Camp Cooke.

In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB.

The battle for Saipan is remembered as one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Pacific during World War II, and was a turning point on the road to the defeat of Japan.

The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in northwest England.

This volume examines how people in Poland learn about Jewish life, culture and history, including the Holocaust.

This is an overview of America's first effort in military aid to a foreign sovereign nation at a time when Europe was engaged in open warfare, Asia was facing a series of military confrontations, and most of the world thought global conflagration was inevitable.

Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German citizenry that the Nazi ideology was the only ideology.

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski's student life, and propelled him into an activist role in the Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa.

Submarines were responsible for about 55 percent of the tonnage of the Japanese fleets sunk during World War II.

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World War II found Albania fighting a war within a war.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 secured for Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist forces what no amount of pleading had been able to produce: an influx of U.

On February 19, 1945, seven battalions of U.

The purpose of this study, commissioned by the Army, was to document the process by which the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded from December 7, 1941, through September 1, 1948; to identify units in which African Americans served; to identify by name all black soldiers whose names were submitted for the medal and to document any errors in the processing of their nominations; and to compile a list of all black soldiers who received the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award.

Within hours of the strike against Pearl Harbor, the U.

In the island battles of World War II, the United States Marine Corps came into its own.

Decades have passed since World War II, yet the myth that all Germans were Nazi sympathizers still persists.

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory.

He was a chemistry student in college on his way home for a visit when news of Pearl Harbor came over the car radio.

The Nazis called them Kriegsgefangen, a term that the prisoners of war shortened to "e;Kriegie.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly.

Eight World War II battles are examined here from the perspective of the U.

This military history covers the attempts of General Wladyslaw Sikorski and his successor (General Kazimierz Sosnkowski) to integrate Polish forces into Western strategy, and to have their clandestine forces declared an allied combatant.

The author demonstrates that the Italian Army deserves attention for its often humanitarian treatment of Italian Jews and other Jews.

During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the largest, most hazardous amphibious assault in history.

From the time his Nazi regime launched World War II to the present, Adolf Hitler has frequently been depicted on film.

This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the times in which a film was made shaped its perspectives.

At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany.

December 7, 1941, opened up a new theater of war in the Pacific and a new threat for what was then the Netherlands East Indies.

This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II.

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies.