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Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0521558794
Provides an overview of the entire war from a global perspective, looking at diplomatic actions, military strategy, economic developments, and pressures from the home front
Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521618266
A truly global account of WWII - the war that encompassed six continents.
Author : Reader's Digest Association
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0895773333
A comprehensive, illustrated history of World War II which includes more than 50 maps and 800 photographs.
Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608194094
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.
Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0864381166
The story of World War II, with more than 800 photographs, illustrations and text, is presented here. Allied and Axis archives, and memoirs of prominent persons are used to explain why the war started, which elements shaped it, and how it ended.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476764528
Featuring a previously published author introduction, a personal foreword by his son and a new introduction by his grandson, a definitive edition of the lauded World War I classic collects all 39 of the Nobel Prize-winning author's alternate endings to offer new insights into his creative process. Reprint.
Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782009061
This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18. Canada's 600,000 troops of whom more than 66,000 died and nearly 150,000 were wounded represented an extraordinary contribution to the British Empire's struggle. On grim battlefields from the Ypres Salient to the Somme, and from their stunning victory at Vimy Ridge to the final triumphant 'Hundred Days' advance of autumn 1918, Canada's soldiers proved themselves to be a remarkable army in their own right, founding a national tradition.
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849088091
The 10th was the only US mountain division to be raised in World War II, and still has a high profile, being involved in operations from Iraq to Somalia and from Haiti to Afghanistan. It did not arrive in Europe until winter 1944/45, but then fought hard in the harsh mountainous terrain of Northern Italy. The division was special in a number of ways. Its personnel were selected for physical fitness and experience in winter sports, mountaineering, and hunting, unlike the rest of the infantry. It was highly trained in mountain and winter warfare, including the use of skis and snowshoes, while its organization, field clothing, and some personal equipment also differed from that of the usual infantry division. The division made extensive use of pack-mules, and its reconnaissance unit was horse-mounted, conducting the last horse-mounted charge in US history in April 1945. Featuring full-color artwork and rare photographs, this is the gripping story of the US Army's only mountain division in action during the closing months of World War II.
Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393540987
From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roman Empire, and the rise of a new faith. Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon operates by a dark code all his own, with no room for noble causes or lofty beliefs. But once he overtakes the courier, something happens that neither he nor the empire could have predicted. In his first novel of the ancient world in thirteen years, the best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War returns with a gripping saga of conquest and rebellion, bloodshed and faith.
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett,Keith Simpson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473816626
The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and offers fascinating insights into its social history during one of the bloodiest wars.
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623733
Volume 1 of Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy. The other two volumes are Officers and Gentlemen and The End of the Battle (UK title Unconditional Surrender). The novel is semi-autobiographical and reflects Waugh's experiences during the Second World War, while giving a satirical view of military bureaucracy. There is a strong religious element.
Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1841763020
Canada was the first Commonwealth country to send troops to Britain in 1939. During 1939-45 hundreds of thousands of Canadians - more than 40 per cent of the male population between the ages of 18 and 45, and virtually all of them volunteers - enlisted. Canadians fought with tragic courage at Hong Kong and Dieppe; with growing strength and confidence in Sicily, Italy and Normandy; and finally provided an entire Army for the liberation of NW Europe. This concise account of an extraordinary national effort in the cause of freedom is supported by data tables, photos, and eight colour plates by Canada's most knowledgeable military illustrator.
Author : Martin Brayley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780964492
The skill and care of the women of the Allied military nursing services was remembered gratefully by hundreds of thousands of wounded servicemen. The small peacetime services increased rapidly by enrolling reservists and volunteers; the great majority of the nurses who cared for Allied casualties were 'civilians in uniform', who worked tirelessly under difficult conditions and in tented hospitals close to the front lines in real danger; many nurses paid for their devotion with their lives. This first-ever fully illustrated study of the US, British, Commonwealth, and other nursing organisations includes many unpublished photographs and 24 meticulously illustrated colour figures.
Author : Robert L Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781510709300
Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, S.p.A., the oldest industrial firm and the oldest gunmaker in the world, launches its 475th anniversary with the publication of this lavish history and celebration of a unique world of Berreta firearms. Beretta remains under the stewardship of its founding family and reigns as one of the few international brands symbolic of unsurpassed quality. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Trina Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1613450958
During the Golden Age of comics, publishers offered titles supporting the war effort -- presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts -- babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting all of the axis bad guys and gave several of the most noteworthy women artists of the era opportunities to create action-packed, adventure-filled, four-color stories. Now for the first time renowned pop-culture historian Trina Robbins assembles comic book stories by artists Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin, Lilly Renee, and Fran Hopper together with insightful commentary and loads of documentary extras to create the definitive book chronicling the work of these important Golden Age artists. This magnificent art book offers page-after-page of good girl action!