World War II 95

The war in the South Pacific saw some of the most gruelling fighting of World War Two. Conditions were unpleasant – fetid heat, torrential downpours and hostile flora and fauna – while the Japanese ……続きを見る

This book is a touching compilation of personal accounts of the men who served in the 487th Bomb Group during World War II. These accounts exemplify the dedication and sacrifice these men made in th……続きを見る

For Germans in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the allure of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's promises for a better, brighter future promised so much. The reality was vastly different... Germany wa……続きを見る

Tenth Armored Division's epic stories of combat in WWII in Europe, as recalled by Major (Retired) Dean M. Chapman. 続きを見る

On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk of Mount Talawe against a sky growing light with the appr……続きを見る

Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and Alive For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail. Author Steve Snyder’s st……続きを見る

Erneute Forschungen, Befragung von Zeitzeugen, Reflexion eigener Erlebnisse in der Kriegszeit in Ostpreußen und Mecklenburg vermitteln dem Leser neue, erkenntnisreiche Bilder aus furchtbarer Zeit; e……続きを見る

The brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed……続きを見る

In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only……続きを見る

Befragungen von Zeitzeugen, umfassende Untersuchungen und Recherchen, gründliche Materialsammlungen waren die Basis für das dokumentarische Werk von Dr. Kurt Redmer. Gewissermaßen eine Fortsetzung s……続きを見る

Außerordentlich gründliche und langzeitige Recherchen versetzten den Autor in die Lage, dieses packende Buch zu verfassen, welches wenig aufgearbeitete Geschehnisse beinhaltet, die sich in den letzt……続きを見る

At 10.00 am on 20 November 1945, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, the presiding judge at the first of the Nuremberg Trials, opened proceedings at what he described as a trial that was 'unique in the history o……続きを見る

As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of fl……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la Résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale en moins d’une heure ! Le 1er septembre 1939, l’Allemagne envahit la Pologne, déclenchant la Seconde Gue……続きを見る

For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War II generation in the state of Texas. Tattooed on My……続きを見る

The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. On April 4, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Di……続きを見る

Lucien Rebatet est l'auteur d'un livre " maudit " qui fut le best-seller de l'Occupation, Les Décombres : six cents pages de violence et de colère, où il s'en prend à tous ceux qu'il tient pour resp……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Historische Romane: Quo Vadis? + Die Kreuzritter + Mit Feuer und Schwert + Sintflut + Pan Wolodyjowski" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wur……続きを見る

The military engagements and campaigns of World War II are emblazoned on mankind’s memory: from the Blitzkrieg attacks that smashed the Polish army in 27 days, and conquered Norway in a day, through……続きを見る

A printed summary of the twelve destroyers of the Allen M. Sumner class, all completed as light minelayers during 1944. The author served on Thomas E Fraser (DM-24), attached to Mine Division Seven ……続きを見る

A Witness in Times of War and Peace is a searing memoir that describes the struggles a Mennonite pastor experiences during the Second World War. Gerhard Hein is a practicing Mennonite when he is cal……続きを見る

Das Schicksal einer jüdischen Familie im Wien der späten 1930er Jahre, die unprätentiöse Lebensgeschichte einer Vertriebenen. "Zwei Passagen auf dem Dampfer USARAMO nach Shanghai frei". Das Schicksa……続きを見る

Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force's principal war aim in South-East Asia. This book ……続きを見る

Major General Orde Wingate (1903–1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. Anglim's biography fills a significant vo……続きを見る

Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington, Soldier, Spy is the story of a soldier returning to civilian life and all ……続きを見る

When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to hold out on Bataan and Corregidor. That spring, afte……続きを見る

El Diario de Ana Frank constituye uno de los testimonios más conmovedores de los campos de exterminio judío. Durante los dos años pasados en clandestinidad refugiada en el traspatio de una oficina e……続きを見る

George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic journ……続きを見る

'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the wo……続きを見る