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Author : Alan Levine
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597977968
The battles that changed the course of the war
Author : Alan Levine
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597977111
Analyzes the most critical campaigns of World War II from 1942 to 1943, examining the conflict from a geographical perspective and discussing the key developments that turned the tides of war in favor of the Allied powers.
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848584310
The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century. It involved more combatants, and a wider range of battlefield terrain than any other conflict in history, from the frozen plains of Russia to the baking Libyan desert, and from the atolls of the Pacific to the skies over Britain. In Turning the Tide, Nigel Cawthorne has taken a fresh look at the crucial battles which decided the outcome of the Second World War, beginning with the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, a feat that boosted the morale of a nation during its darkest hour, and reaching a climactic end with the final bloody reckoning between the Red Army and the Third Reich amongst the ruins of Berlin.
Author : Kathy Sammis
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0825143713
Topics include: Reform and revolution in China, Russia, and Mexico. World War I. The world between wars. World War II. Post-World War II to current times.
Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588368980
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success. In January 1943, FDR and Churchill convened in Casablanca and established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan’s imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting, tactical detail, Engineers of Victory reveals how. Kennedy recounts the inside stories of the invention of the cavity magnetron, a miniature radar “as small as a soup plate,” and the Hedgehog, a multi-headed grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to overcome the threat to their convoys crossing the Atlantic; the critical decision by engineers to install a super-charged Rolls-Royce engine in the P-51 Mustang, creating a fighter plane more powerful than the Luftwaffe’s; and the innovative use of pontoon bridges (made from rafts strung together) to help Russian troops cross rivers and elude the Nazi blitzkrieg. He takes readers behind the scenes, unveiling exactly how thousands of individual Allied planes and fighting ships were choreographed to collectively pull off the invasion of Normandy, and illuminating how crew chiefs perfected the high-flying and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that would drop the atomic bombs on Japan. The story of World War II is often told as a grand narrative, as if it were fought by supermen or decided by fate. Here Kennedy uncovers the real heroes of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies, tactics, and organizational decisions that made the lofty Allied objectives into a successful reality. In an even more significant way, Engineers of Victory has another claim to our attention, for it restores “the middle level of war” to its rightful place in history. Praise for Engineers of Victory “Superbly written and carefully documented . . . indispensable reading for anyone who seeks to understand how and why the Allies won.”—The Christian Science Monitor “An important contribution to our understanding of World War II . . . Like an engineer who pries open a pocket watch to reveal its inner mechanics, [Paul] Kennedy tells how little-known men and women at lower levels helped win the war.”—Michael Beschloss, The New York Times Book Review “Histories of World War II tend to concentrate on the leaders and generals at the top who make the big strategic decisions and on the lowly grunts at the bottom. . . . [Engineers of Victory] seeks to fill this gap in the historiography of World War II and does so triumphantly. . . . This book is a fine tribute.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Kennedy] colorfully and convincingly illustrates the ingenuity and persistence of a few men who made all the difference.”—The Washington Post “This superb book is Kennedy’s best.”—Foreign Affairs
Author : Tim Newark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Battles
ISBN : 0600609839
This atlas shows the decisive battles that changed the tide of war. It reveals how the upper hand was gained through a twist of fate, when US aircraft carriers were at sea on manoeuvres when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942. With detailed strategic and battle plans it explains how superior forces were overwhelmed by a small well-trained army - the Turkish defence of Gallipoli agains the Allies in 1915. The atlas covers 200 years, from Napoleon's conquest of Europe through the first and second world wars to the Gulf War and the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Author : Arthur Bryant,Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063040334
The Turn of the Tide is built around the personal diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, who was Chief of the Imerperial General Staff and Churchill's closest military advisor. The author, Sir Arthur Bryant, terms Lord Alanbrooke's diaries "the most important of all contemporary personal records of the war". Extensive excerpts from the diaries are woven into the text together with comments on the diaries made by Lord Alanbrooke after the war.
Author : Dan Reiter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691140605
"Dan Reiter explains how information about combat outcomes and other factors may persuade a warring nation to demand more or less in peace negotiations, and why a country might refuse to negotiate limited terms and instead tenaciously pursue absolute victory if it fears that its enemy might renege on a peace deal. He fully lays out the theory and then tests it on more than twenty cases of war-termination behavior, including decisions during the American Civil War, the two world wars, and the Korean War. Reiter helps solve some of the most enduring puzzles in military history, such as why Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, why Germany in 1918 renewed its attack in the West after securing peace with Russia in the East, and why Britain refused to seek peace terms with Germany after France fell in 1940.".
Author : David F. Schmitz
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612343136
When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in March 1933, he initially devoted most of his attention to finding a solution to the Great Depression. But the pull of war and the results of FDR's foreign policy ultimately had a deeper and more transformative impact on U.S. history. The Triumph of Internationalism offers a fresh, concise analysis and narrative of FDR's foreign policy from 1933 to America's entry into World War II in 1941. David Schmitz covers the attempts to solve the international economic crisis of the Great Depression, the Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America, the U.S. response to war in Europe and the Pacific, and other topics of this turbulent era. Schmitz describes Roosevelt as an internationalist who set out to promote U.S. interests abroad short of direct intervention. He tried to make amends for past transgressions with the nation's southern neighbors, eventually attempted to open and promote international trade to foster economic growth, and pursued containment policies intended to halt both the Japanese threat in the Pacific through deterrence and German aggression in Europe through economic appeasement. When his policies regarding the Axis powers failed, he began educating the American public about the dangers of Axis hegemony and rearming the nation for war. This effort required a profound shift in the American mind-set, given the prevailing isolationism, the disillusionment with America's involvement in World War I, and the preoccupation with domestic problems. A less powerful president would likely have failed, or perhaps not even attempted, to alter the prevailing public opinion. FDR revived American internationalism and reshaped the public's understanding of the national interest and defense. Roosevelt's policies and the outcome of World War II made the United States a superpower without equal.
Author : United States. Office of War Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128882532
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UIUC:30112088069023
Author : Richard C. Wade,Howard Baker Wilder,Louise Carroll Wade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000007069465
A high school textbook tracing the history of the United States from the arrival of the first settlers to the present day.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OSU:32435064206071
Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627791144
On the 16th of December, 1944, in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, the German army attacked American Allied forces, launching a final bid to turn the tide of World War II. Thus began the long, hard slog of a battle that was nicknamed by the media as the Battle of the Bulge. Lasting more than a month, it led to tens of thousands of casualties. Sir Winston Churchill called it "the greatest American battle of the war and . . . an ever-famous American victory." Atkinson skillfully guides his audience through the attacks and counterattacks, the advances and retreats of this terrible bloodbath. Whether history buffs or newcomers to the topic, young readers will appreciate the author's clear and accessible prose, as well as the many fascinating facts, photographs, and statistics. A historical exploration of World War II's Battle of the Bulge from Pulitzer Prize–winner and New York Times–bestselling author Rick Atkinson. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.
Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093199
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, bestselling author Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory. An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.