Ｙ．Ａ - World War II 3

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War. Many existing studies on the role of women in the Second World War ……続きを見る

Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding t……続きを見る

Fleet Admiral "Bull" Halsey was an important allied naval leader in World War 2. His autobiography Admiral Halsey's Story surveys the key events of the war in which he was an active participant, fro……続きを見る

After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but isolated resorts in Appalachia, where the State Department insisted……続きを見る

On September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary of……続きを見る

A World War II survivor describes his combat experiences as a member of the Red Army’s 5th Guards Cavalry Division in the fight against the Nazi Germany. Ivan Yakushin survived the Siege of Leningra……続きを見る

A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II. Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and fran……続きを見る

No auge do Holocausto, 25 jovens prisioneiras do campo de concentração de Auschwitz-Birkenau desenharam, cortaram e coseram elegantes peças de vestuário para as mulheres da elite Nazi. Um trabalho q……続きを見る

我寫下來，因為我們是最後的見證人。 　 ◎女性主義史學經典《乳房的歷史》作者瑪莉蓮．亞隆最後傳世作品 ◎美國亞馬遜書店 ★★★★★ 五顆星感動好評 　 在生命結束時，你會回想到什麼？ 　本書是知名女性主義歷史學家……続きを見る

More than a million American airmen were involved in air fighting during World War II. When Eighth Air Force aircraft were lost due to enemy action over Europe, the statistics on American airmen acc……続きを見る

This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy's failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place. ……続きを見る

Az auschwitz–birkenaui koncentrációs táborban huszonöt, többségében szlovák és magyar származású zsidó nő elegáns ruhákat varrt a náci elit asszonyai és lányai számára. A varroda sokáig a szögesdrót……続きを見る

Journey alongside the writer & reporter, Ayana Love, within several examples of negative influential depictions of African-Americans within Japanese visuals (i.e. toys, posters, clothes), contempora……続きを見る

Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin’s covert operat……続きを見る

Protect your flanks, know when to culminate, and never outrun your logistics. Warfare examines these critical aspects of war and much more. Here is an extremely well-researched historical book that ……続きを見る

Black Sheep Ace is the exciting life story of Sammy Alpheus Pierce, a country boy from rural North Carolina who enlisted in the Army as a private first class and was accepted to pilot training as a ……続きを見る

Au cours des vingt années qui suivirent la création d’Israël en 1948, une puissante vague d’immigrants juifs venus des pays arabes (Irak, Yémen, Libye, Égypte et Syrie) et du Maghreb s’établit dans ……続きを見る

La fascination exercée par Paris dans toute l’Europe depuis le début du XXe siècle se traduit, dès avant le premier conflit mondial, par l’établissement d’un grand nombre d’artistes dans ce lieu de ……続きを見る

Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous civilian women risked their lives as aerial courier pilots, flying Lancaster bombers, Spitfires and many other powerful……続きを見る

Britain’s first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain. Often eclipsed by the le……続きを見る

A comprehensive account of the World War II Allied bombing campaign to destroy pivotal Romanian oil refineriesーby the retired Marine Corps fighter pilot. Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout……続きを見る

The true story of the B-25 pilot who “fought a personal aerial war to retrieve his family from Japanese captivity in the Philippines . . . stirring” (Barrett Tillman, author of Whirlwind: The Air Wa……続きを見る

“A superb, edge-of-the-seat account of [Elwyn] Righetti’s stellar combat career during the final months of the air war against Germany” (Eric Hammel, author of Two Flags over Iwo Jima). A hell-bent-……続きを見る

A look at how British and Indian forces used tank warfare against the Japanese during World War II in modern-day Myanmar. Fighting in a somewhat forgotten corner of empire during the Second World Wa……続きを見る

This comprehensive account of the southern English county during WWII covers everything from the Dunkirk evacuations to the Battle of Britain and more. Located along the English Channel, the southea……続きを見る

The Women’s Land Army are probably one of the lesser-known branches of the women’s forces that served their country during World War Two. Thousands of women faced losing their stories to history, bu……続きを見る

Many great writers and historians have written about the failed Valkyrie plot and the Germans who led the operation. Historians and authors Peter Hoffman, Michael Baigent, Richard Dargie, and Nigel ……続きを見る

First published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million……続きを見る

The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945 comprises interviews with some of the very few surviving veterans of this most arduous of campaigns. In their own words, soldiers, sailors and airmen now aged betw……続きを見る

"By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root ……続きを見る