Modern warfare

World War II comes alive through the public records and private accounts of the day.

Introducing a new series where history comes alive in riveting documents and images of great events as they occurred.

A naval historian draws on newly revealed primary documents to shed light on the tragic errors that led to the devastating attack, Washington's role, and the man who took the fall for the Japanese tactical victory.

A military biography of the American soldier and statesman who managed the WWII Lend-Lease program and acted as governor of postwar Germany.

This is the story of a father, as seen through the prism of a daughter's memories of him.

A concise guide to the Japanese attack on Hawaii that plunged America into WWII, with facts, maps, historical significance, and more.

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.

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In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II.

Robert and Sandra wrote this book to honor the men and dogs who served with the 26th Infantry Scout Dog Platoon during World War Two and Korea.

This is the story of PFC Raymond Oblinger, an American replacement soldier in the U.

This book portrays the small world of the infantrymen, many of whom were drafted wight out of high school, in training and in combat during WWII.

They came in waves from the schools, factories, farms, and city streets, some driven by patriotism, but most with a dream.

Fly combat missions with the 8th air force in WWII!

Following is a brief look into the episodes of the past, that have had an influence on the nations of the world, and eventually led to the outbreak of W.

This story is taken from notes Austin Buck Buchanan wrote in notebooks he carried in his pocket all during World War II.

Paul Cook- historian, author of Siege at the White House and European resident for many years has written the first bombshell of a World War II series that is destined to become a classic.

Ed Anderson was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa.

At long last The Original Tomcat has found an everlasting home.

Reluctant Warriors, 1941-1945, an autobiographical memoir set in New York, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, and the European Theater of Operations, describes the lives of young people caught up in World War II, daily life during those years, and the profound effect the war had on that life.

The so-called lull in October 1944 in Lorraine was anything but that.

This book was written basically to demonstratethe procedures that Sgt Peter Trunce used in tryingto get refugees safely out of Burma and away fromthe Japanese during World War II.

The Good War is a book about World War 2.

Los sucesos de Chiapas nos han sorprendido a todos, lo mismo a los mexicanos que a los observadores extranjeros.

Emilio, viaja con su madre y hermano desde Italia para encontrarse con su padre en Eritrea, una de las colonias africanas de Italia desde el siglo XIX.

The War Myth in United States History by C.

During World War II, 15,000 P-51 Mustang fighter planes were produced by North American Aviation.

A true account of a shoot-down, capture, imprisonment and liberation.

In the beginning, I was so proud of my country and what I thought we were accomplishing.

Coal Cracker's Son is a novel that focuses upon young Joey Gobol and his Polish family when they lived in Nanticoke, a small coal-mining town in northeast Pennsylvania during the Great Depression.

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The Beginning of Futility and Futility ending in Disaster discussed Italys joining the allies and going on the offensive against Austria-Hungary.

In 1939, the authors family left Wisconsin for her parents homeland, Germany, arriving two weeks before the beginning of World War II.

Was World War II necessary?

Aurora is the story of a young school teacher from rural Alabama who ventured to New York where she fell in love with a romantic, young gentleman from old German aristocracy.

On December 7, 1941, Glenn W.

Howard Pierson joined the US Army Air Corps to defend America against the intended exterminators of Europes Jews.

Bomb disposal was the most technically demanding and dangerous job outside of combat during World War II.

An Army Captain, his wife, four kids aged three to nine, and a dog were having a leisurely trip across the country in their 1941 Pontiac, bound for his new assignment in Stockton, California.

'A beautiful, compelling memoir .

Growing up in war-torn Germany, spending over two years in a Russian prison camp can ruin a life or make it stronger.

In early 1942, the U.

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy attacked the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

This is a rich source of eyewitness history, and Sharon Nicholson had thevision to capture it before it disappeared.

This aviation handbook is intended to provide the reader with a quick reference to identify the military aircraft flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army during the Second World War.

This aviation handbook is intended to provide the reader with a quick reference to identify military support aircraft flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army during the Second World War.

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On the evening of March 31, 1945, hours before the invasion of Okinawa, Max Stripe, Billy Thornhill, and five other crewmen manned the forward twin 40 mm mount of LST 791.