Modern warfare

A richly researched account of the social, racial, and political history of a major Deep South infantry division at home and in the Pacific Chris Rein's study of the Thirty-First Infantry Division, known officially as the "e;Dixie Division,"e; illuminates the complexities in mobilizing American reserve units to meet the global emergency during World War II.

Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres In Valor and Courage: The Story of the USS Block Island Escort Carriers in World War II Benjamin Hruska explores the history and commemoration of the USS Block Island-or, more properly, the Block Islands, as two escort carriers bore that name during WWII.

An investigation into the relationship between history, art, architecture, memory, and diplomacy.

Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H.

An engrossing account of the military, cultural, and commercial impact of Japan and the USA on the island nation of Palau The expansionist Japanese empire annexed the inhabited archipelago of Palau in 1914.

A moving personal account of a man's flight for freedom-above the clouds and beyond prejudice-by one of the first Tuskegee airmen.

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A long-overdue history of America's "e;forgotten flattop.

On February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions stormed ashore from a naval support force.

One woman's quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1943.

The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust and respect.

Human suffering on a large scale is a continuing threat to world peace.

This biography tells the story of Andre and Magda Trocme, two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life.

A rare and entertaining look at Felicity Ashbee's experiences as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II

The story of two Wayne State University students who were separated by World War II, told through the letters that they exchanged.

Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland.

A New Yorker "e;Best Books of 2022"e; selectionNeed to Know is the most thorough and detailedhistory availableon the origins of U.

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"e;An absorbing story about how the Lincoln veteran George Watt managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium.

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war.

A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations.

On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival.

Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War.

On November 8, 1943, U.

Traditional histories of the hard-fought Battle of the Bulge routinely include detailed lists of the casualties suffered by American, British, and German troops.

They were Uncle Sams smiling workers and they looked like all-American boys.

At the outset of World War II, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the Union.

One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.

"e;Outlines in great detail how the war brought progress to [North Carolina].

They lived deeply separate lives.

Thousands of cargo ships sailed in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of World War II manned by young men who braved blockades, torpedoes, and bombings to deliver vital supplies to the Allied forces and make victory possible.

Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination.

Visual history of Rommel and his Afrika Korps in the desert of North Africa.

This book has it all .

Story of one of the best and most battered armored divisions in the German armed forces.

Combat history of a renowned German tank regiment in World War II.

Combat history of a renowned German tank regiment in World War II.

For the first time ever thefull story of how Charles ';Lucky' Lucianothe U.

From bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen's The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw's The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWIIthe true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history.

';The books teenage protagonists and their bravery will enthrall young adults, who may find themselves inspired to take up their own causes.

A PEN America Literary Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Awards NomineeAn Amazon Best of the Year SelectionThe untold story of some of WW2's most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all.

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Nyokodō, el «lugar del amor a uno mismo», es una pequeñísima cabaña de madera de tan solo cuatro metros cuadrados, construida en el corazón del barrio de Nagasaki reducido a cenizas por la bomba atómica.

This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January 2023.

A gripping account of the most famous convoy operation of the war, which marked a high-water mark for the German naval campaign in the Arctic.

World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the very important story of the fighting between United States and Japanese aircraft carriers is often lost in broader discussions of the Pacific naval war.

Volume two in this "e;expert, anecdote-filled, thoroughly entertaining"e; history of WWII follows The Rise of Germany as the Allied forces turn the tides (Kirkus).

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan's terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.

A Private Treason is the memoir of a courageous German woman who, as a girl of nineteen from an upper-middle-class Gentile family, rejected Nazism completely and gave up her language and her country forever.

This ';lively and action-packed account' of the infamous Gran Sasso raid chronicles the Nazi paratrooper operation that freed Mussolini (WWII History).