Military forces and sectors

A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast.

In this memoir of life aboard aircraft carriers during World War II, Alvin Kernan combines vivid recollections of his experience as a young enlisted sailor with a rich historical account of the Pacific war.

Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An "e;impressive"e; account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat (International Journal of Military History).

Award-winning author, Thomas J.

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like.

The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon.

Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain’s fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler’s Germany.

In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium.

This "e;impeccable, myth-busting study"e; of WWII maritime operations sheds new light on the conflict with sharp analysis and an international perspective (The Sunday Times, UK).

This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a crucial role in ending the war in 1945?

This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism.

Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.

In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Finalist, Templer MedalIn the spring of 1944, on the eastern front of India near the Burmese border, the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Army suffered the worst defeat in its history at the hands of Lieutenant General William Slims British XIV Army, most of whose units were drawn from the little-esteemed Indian Army.

Starting with the background of Japan’s rise to military prominence and the Asian country’s aggressive behavior against its neighbors, this graphic history covers all the significant events leading up to that fateful aerial attack on December 7, 1941.

This book recounts France's responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995.

The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.

Battalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War IIBased on war diaries, casualty reports, and after-action interviewsThe author is one of Canada's preeminent military historiansConsisting of the Calgary Highlanders, the Black Watch, and the French-speaking Rgiment de Maisonneuve, the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade landed in France in early July 1944 as part of British General Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group.

[A] dramatic, affecting account.

For more than a century and a half Texans have honored the heroes of the Texas fight for independence.

'My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage, as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help win World War II.

In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished.

John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII.

Revised edition of a rare account of a German armored division in combat at the epic Battle of Stalingrad.

Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I.

Connecticut privateer Nathaniel Fanning (1755-1805) was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War.

Volume 2 continues the history of the U.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of which the Confederate Navy put 25 into service.

"e;As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war.

One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days.

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The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary.

The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents.

During World War II, an eccentric band of barnstormers, stunt flyers and commercial pilots joined military recruits to form the Pan American Air Ferries.

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As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science.

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies.

Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times.

Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disguised as a man, took part in the Resistance of World War II, was the first to survive crossing the English Channel in a balloon, worked all her life as a journalist, spent years in North Africa and invented metal skis.

Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war.

Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day.

Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "e;Laird rams"e; were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.

This is the thrilling story of USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

This is the first published comprehensive survey of naval action on the Mississippi River and its tributaries for the years 1863-1865.

The story of Hitler's Wehrmachtsgefolge (armed forces auxiliaries) is less well known than that of Germany's other armed forces in World War II, such as the panzer divisions, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.