Modern warfare

This book focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent an extended period in Soviet captivity.

In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice.

Iva Ikuku Toguri (1916-2006) was an American citizen, born on the 4th of July.

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "e;entangling alliance"e; with ten European nations.

The incredible true story of one mans escape from Nazis in Norway.

The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea.

Popularly known as the Douglas Dauntless, the U.

Making full use of significant new sources in Chinese-language materials, U.

During World War II, training in the black arts of covert operation was vital preparation for the ungentlemanly warfare waged by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) against Hitlers Germany and Tojos Japan.

A true and touching human tale of survival and achievement.

In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R.

A fascinating exploration of early to mid-twentieth-century politics as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat.

As America approaches the seventy-fifth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, author William M.

Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M.

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE BESTSELLING ESCAPES SERIES, FROM MILITARY HISTORIAN DAMIEN LEWISSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world's most famous fighting force during WWII.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2024A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER'A momentous historic retrieval and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATENearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the full details of her past with anyone.

Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion.

One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese, said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it the most forbidding fighting country imaginable.

"e;Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense.

To defeat your enemies you must know them well.

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Although it was the largest and final battle of the Pacific War, the Battle for Okinawa has long been overshadowed by other dramatic events in 1945.

Una meticulosa y documentada investigación histórica que nos muestra uno de los aspectos más desconocidos y menos estudiados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el de la posterior desnazificación de la sociedad alemana.

Following the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, North Luzon was the staging area for several Filipino-American guerrilla bands who sought to gather intelligence and to destroy enemy military installations or supplies.

During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power.

The Destruction of Peoples considers the connections between colonial conquest and genocide in modern history.

Mein Grovater, der KriegsverbrecherRobert Ley war Reichorganisationsleiter der NSDAP und baute die Deutsche Arbeitsfront zum gro ten NS-Verband auf.