Military forces and sectors

On June 28, 1976, into the all-male bastion of the United States Air Force Academy 157 women stepped, challenging the slogan over the entrance ramp that read "e;Bring Me Men.

Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.

This is the gripping true story of 4 intense years in the life of a US Army Special Forces soldier, who joins the UN and then goes on to an assignment in Iraq at the time of the deadly jihadist bombing attack of the UN headquarters.

Winner: Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare.

Winner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobzcak Memorial Book AwardWithout what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 19421944, the Normandy landingsand so, perhaps, the Second World War IIwould have ended differently.

Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.

Action-adventure narrative about elite German airborne troops.

Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day.

A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.

Joseph Balkoski concludes his landmark series on the U.

First full-length history of the largest and most successful airborne offensive ever.

Angus Konstam setssail through the brutal history of piracy, separating myth from legend and fact from fiction.

From a WWII veteran, an illustrated military history of the German tank division that fought exclusively on the Eastern front.

This book discusses the role of the U.

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.

Gripping firsthand accounts.

The Dodgeris the story of John Bigelow "e;Johnny"e; Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood filmThe Great Escape.

A comprehensive pictorial study of Germany's armored reconnaissance operations across all WWII combat zones.

This sweeping recasting of American naval history is a bold departure from the conventional ';sea power' approach.

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades.

At the end of World War II, Gen.

Hide& Seek chronicles the intensely personal war between wartime Rome's Nazi SS Chief Herbert Kapplerand the Vatican's Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a fiercely fought rivalry that culminated in Kappler attempting to kidnap and murder his Irish opponent, who was determined to fight Rome's Nazi rulers.

On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission.

On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem .

As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II.

During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Few ships in American history have had as illustrious a history as the heavy cruiser USS Portland (CA-33), affectionately known by her crew as 'Sweet Pea.

Provides a day-by-day account of the action on all fronts and of the events surrounding the conflict, from the guns of August 1914 to the November 1918 Armistice and its troubled aftermath.

On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago.

"e;"e;Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were.

A landmark text on the greatest land battle of the Pacific War.

Operation Fortitude tells the thrilling tale of an ingenious decption that changed the course of the Second World War.

Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations.

Frank Dell’s experience as a Second World War pilot with the Royal Air Force’s Light Night Striking Force takes an even more dramatic turn when his Mosquito is shot down over Germany on the night of 14/15 October 1944.

Minute-by-minute account of the offensive.

When Alfredo Sanchez was approached on the street in May of 1928, he received life-changing news about his own past.

Complements the author's last book, the well-received Benedict Arnold's NavyDetails an important but rarely mentioned event in American history

In 1943, German forces launched a counteroffensive, reclaiming Kharkov during a crucial Eastern Front crisisAt the beginning of 1943, the German armed forces were in crisis on the southern front in Russia.

Incorporating a wealth of new material, here is the riveting story of the bombing raids that broke the back of Nazi Germany, praised as "e;a well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience .

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the field of space policy.

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature.

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich.

"e;Dunn shows how FDR's Third Hundred Days were critical to overcoming isolationism and rebuilding American leadership in an age of global turmoil.

A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters home This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War.

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.