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Author : Brian Lockman
Release : 2005
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 093/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis World War II in Their Own Words by : Brian Lockman
Download or read book World War II in Their Own Words written by Brian Lockman. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping firsthand accounts. Then-and-now photos of veterans. Maps and sidebars highlight battles, generals, units, and equipment.
Author : Colin Hynson
Release : 2006
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 836/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis World War II by : Colin Hynson
Download or read book World War II written by Colin Hynson. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information includes time lines, maps, pictures, and primary source material on World War II.
Author : Donald L. Miller
Release : 2010-05-08
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 227/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Story of World War II by : Donald L. Miller
Download or read book The Story of World War II written by Donald L. Miller. This book was released on 2010-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
Author : Antony Beevor
Release : 2012-06-05
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 077/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Second World War by : Antony Beevor
Download or read book The Second World War written by Antony Beevor. This book was released on 2012-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
Author : Molly Guptill Manning
Release : 2014-12-02
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis When Books Went to War by : Molly Guptill Manning
Download or read book When Books Went to War written by Molly Guptill Manning. This book was released on 2014-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
