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Author : United States. Navy Department. Office of Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113784560
Author : Rick Beyer,Elizabeth Sayles
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781797225302
“A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way—ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously.” —Tom Brokaw The first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives—now updated with new material. In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—artists, designers, architects, and sound engineers, including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony convoys, phantom divisions, and make-believe headquarters to fool the enemy about the strength and location of American units. Every move they made was top secret, and their story was hushed up for decades after the war's end. Hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs, along with maps, official memos, and letters, accompany Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles’s meticulous research and interviews with many of the soldiers, weaving a compelling narrative of how an unlikely team carried out amazing battlefield deceptions that saved thousands of American lives and helped open the way for the final drive to Germany. The stunning art created between missions also offers a glimpse of life behind the lines during World War II. This updated edition includes: A new afterword by co-author Rick Beyer Never-before-seen additional images The successful campaign to have the unit awarded a Congressional Gold Medal History and WWII enthusiasts will find The Ghost Army of World War II an essential addition to their library.
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Decorations of honor
ISBN : PURD:32754071550549
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : UVA:X005025292
Author : Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023151304
Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416583141
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
Author : Julia Brock,Jennifer W. Dickey,Richard Harker,Catherine Lewis
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286703
Collection of primary source documents, which include photographs, official reports, editorials, executive orders, radio broadcast scripts, letters and oral histories, detailing the experiences and contributions of American women during World War II. The documentary collection is a companion volume to a 2012 traveling exhibition from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Chapter 1 documents the mobilization of women into industrial factories and agricultural sectors. Chapter 2 deals with women who found employment in white-collar professions, such as law, journalism, clerical work and medicine. Chapter 3 traces women's service in military auxiliary units. Chapter 4 focuses on women's domestic labor on the home front. Chapter 5 documents the secret war waged by the government including its use of women as spies and saboteurs.
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316084079
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 : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855
Author : Mark J. Crowley,Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275878
Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Author : John Boyd Coates (Jr.),Ebbe Curtis Hoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Medicine, Preventive
ISBN : UCAL:$B790801
Author : Bernard D. Rostker
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780833078216
War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and--until recently--often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.
Author : Chris Mason
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0764322559
A glimpse into the mundane minutia of the daily lives of ordinary German soldiers just before and during World War II. It covers the little things they carried in their pockets and backpacks to make a sometimes terrifying, often boring existence seem a little more bearable.
Author : Carl Joachim Friedrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Military government
ISBN : UOM:39015004974971
Author : Frances Martin Day,Phyllis Spence,Barbara Ladouceur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048568615
In these Red Cross memoirs, some 30 women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with enemy submarines to witness Canadian women on duty in the U.K., in Europe and in Asia.The volunteers shouldered challenging and often dangerous jobs, working as nurse's aides, ambulance drivers, welfare officers, cooks, transport drivers and in the social clubs Canadian soldiers visited on leave. We learn how it feels to survive daily bombings and severe food shortages, to witness death and destruction all around, and to acquire the spirit and courage exhibited by so many "ordinary" people during the war.Laced with humour and filled with grace, these stories are a testament to the vital yet often overlooked responsibilities that thousands of women gallantly accepted for the Allied war effort. Women Overseas is a companion volume to the national bestseller Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Bride Stories. It contains many period photographs as well as an illuminating introduction to the Canadian Red Cross Corps.