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For four days in November 1943, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the future of the war in the China-Burma-India Theater and plans for the ultimate defeat of Japan.

This narrative tracks the experiences of three veterans while providing a comprehensive account of Troop G activities during the war years.

Like virtually every other aspect of American life, baseball was affected by World War II.

On Friday, August 7, 1942, at 1300, after a furious cannonading by the Navy fighting vessels slamming salvo after salvo into the shores, 36-year-old Marine Sergeant Abraham Felber jumped from a Higgins boat onto Beach Red in the first-wave assault on the deadly jungle island of Guadalcanal.

Looting has long been recognized as one of the crimes committed by the Third Reich during World War II, a crime which stripped economic wealth and artistic treasures from the populations the Nazis terrorized.

This volume presents a cross-section of the most common transport vehicles produced and used by the German army.

Norway's Spitsbergen Archipelago, known as Svalbard to the Norwegians, is of increasing interest to Arctic scholars and geographers, as well as to military historians and analysts of strategy.

From December 7, 1941, until the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the war with Japan was a losing one.

The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson was the mastermind behind the "e;deep operation"e;--the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II.

The twentieth century was one of the most violent in all of human history, with more than 100 million people killed in acts of war and persecution ranging from the Herero and Namaqua genocide in present-day Namibia during the early 1900s to the ongoing conflict in Darfur.

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This is a collection of 21 accounts of people and events that illuminate the strange adventures, mysterious circumstances, extreme behaviors and forgotten tragedies of World War II.

This work is an account of the China edition of the U.

World War II has been an endlessly fertile film subject since the late 1930s-even before the United States entered combat.

Hugh Warren West was drafted into the U.

Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was the forced deportation of its citizens by the Soviet Union during the first Soviet occupation of that country between 1939 and 1941.

This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II.

Among the offensive aerial missions employed in World War II, air-to-ground gun fighting was one of the most valuable.

While most fans know that baseball stars Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, and Bob Feller served in the military during World War II, few can name the two major leaguers who died in action.

More than 2000 women in the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union flew military airplanes in organized units during World War II, yet their stories are largely unknown.

Sandwiched between Nazi Germany and the "e;Russian Bear,"e; Sweden walked a diplomatic tightrope on if and how it should support Finland during the Russo-Finnish Winter War.

Nearly 900 African Americans fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima, but accounts of their service have gone largely unrecorded.

Conceived in desperation after the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, Germany's Operation Nordwind culminated in the frozen Alsatian fields surrounding the Zorn River.

The dramatic account of two American warships in the South Pacific, this book follows the USS Astoria (CA-34) and USS Chicago (CA-29) during the late summer of 1942, when both participated in the early days of the critical battle for Guadalcanal.

The 150,000 women who served in the Women's Army Corps are now seen as the undersung heroes of the Second World War.

This compelling memoir tracks the war experiences of a radio wireman in the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Fifth Infantry Division.

Here is the wartime diary of Wayne Nelson, an OSS officer who served in North Africa and Europe during World War II.

Here is a comprehensive accounting of all United States and allied submarine attacks on the Japanese for which success was claimed or occurred.

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was.

This vividly detailed memoir describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped death by living a childhood of constant vigil and, along with his family, continuously dodging the ever-present threat of a Nazi capture.

More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country's morale.

In the 489 Dachau trials, 1700 criminals of Nazi Germany faced American justice.

On August 14, 1942, Chief of Staff George C.

The Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back at home the bases were loaded with baseball players, many of them new to the big leagues.

During the Nazi regime's swift rise to power, no single target of nazification took higher priority than Germany's young people.

One of the most significant innovations in modern warfare has been the appearance and development of air power, a technology which demanded technical and financial investment on a whole new scale and which ultimately changed the fundamental nature of war itself.

Born in the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was a teenager when Germany invaded his country and launched Poland into the combat of World War II.

This book tells the story of Slovak underground member Maria Gulovich's unlikely heroism, focusing on the former elementary schoolteacher's courageous actions in saving American OSS agents.

"e;Hitler was Nazi Germany and Nazi Germany was Hitler.

This book describes the life of the enlisted men aboard a Farragut class destroyer during the pre-World War II years; the war preparation period in 1941; and the wartime years.

At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war.

Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army mostly made up of untrained Filipinos, the Battle of Bataan has become one of the "e;forgotten"e; battles of World War II.

These accounts describe the battle and POW experiences of twelve American military men captured by either Germany or Japan during World War II.

Why do soldiers fight?

A selection of writings by courageous pacifist Christians who helped to save hundreds of lives during the Second World War.

Magda Trocme (1901-1996) was the Italian-born wife of Reverend Andre Trocme (1901-1971), a French pastor deeply involved in the social gospel movement that saw Christianity embedded in progressive political struggles.

The construction in the 1940s of hydroelectric dams and reservoirs, Lakes Manouan and Passe Dangereuse, were enormous projects that had consequences not only on the environment but also on international affairs.

The experiences of the Bene Israel community following their immigration from India to the newly formed state of Israel.