M.B - World War II 5

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by Madge Lambert. It was July 1944 when Madge stepped……続きを見る

"Highly accessible and sprightly written."ーLibrary Journal Winner of the Kansas State Library's Kansas Notable Book Award In this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career o……続きを見る

At a crucial moment, Ed Whitcomb, a B-17 navigator, made a split-second decision and thereby set off a hair-raising, spine-tingling sequence of narrow escapes, captures, unexpected breaks and bitter……続きを見る

They Also Served is a collection of memories, bringing to life the experiences of women during World War II. None of the women profiled achieved great renownthese were the neighbors next door, the t……続きを見る

Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary Gree……続きを見る

All'interno della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, si collocano gli eventi della battaglia di Stalingrado.In sintesi è possibile evidenziare come nel 1942 era iniziata l'offensiva Tedesca per la conquista d……続きを見る

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II “An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting……続きを見る

Two shocking exposés of Nazi cruelty and international collusion from “one of the finest investigative journalists” (The Washington Times). Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Con……続きを見る

Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes ho……続きを見る

Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant women’s page journalists who contributed to the women’s liberation movement and the journalism com……続きを見る

This is the story of a typical Canadian fighting battalion at war. Its name was the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada. Its nickname was “The Glamour Boys”. In the opening chapters, Kim Beatt……続きを見る

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust. This narrative of her life's journey describes the sur……続きを見る

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz……続きを見る

In the aftermath of the war, will the truth stay buried? Joy Chambers' The Great Deception is filled with tension, excitement and romance, looking at the experiences of Australians in World War II. ……続きを見る

The war is over but for Lizzie Angel the heartbreak is just beginning... A young woman is forced to make difficult choices in Flying with the Angels, a tender, heart-warming saga of North London lif……続きを見る

From recruitment and training and the battlegrounds of Palestine, North Africa, Thailand, Burma and beyond, here are the highly individual stories of Australia's World War II Diggers told in their o……続きを見る

In 'The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier' by Joseph Plumb Martin, readers are taken on a firsthand journey through the American Revolutionary War. Written in a simple and straightforward style, Ma……続きを見る

In 'Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War' by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot, the author explores the history and technical aspects of aerial warfare during World War I. Talbot provides detailed descrip……続きを見る

The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World Wars most famous actions inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book, however……続きを見る

Max Pemberton's 'The Great White Army' is a compelling historical novel that delves into the gritty reality of war and the impact it has on individuals. Set against the backdrop of World War I, Pemb……続きを見る

Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progres……続きを見る

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States. Using the texts and images from a personal archive, ……続きを見る

Born in the hellish aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Seabees began as barely armed civilians with no military training. They had an average age of 35. GI's would joke, "Never hit a Seabee, for his son……続きを見る

A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II When William B. Dreux parachuted into France in 1944, the OSS infantry officer h……続きを見る

From the sinking decks of a navy cruiser to the cockpit of a doomed B-25 bomber, Ronald J. Drez takes us to the front lines of World War II. Through Drez's gripping narrative style, we meet twelve m……続きを見る

Four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that……続きを見る

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'A page-turning descent into Hell and ……続きを見る

Band of Brothers vertelt het persoonlijke verhaal van de soldaten van de bijzondere eenheid – Easy Company – die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog altijd en overal de gevaarlijkste opdrachten kreeg toebedee……続きを見る

Stephen E. Ambrose, de aartsvader van de oorlogsnon-fictie, schetst in D-Day: 6 juni 1944 aan de hand van honderden mondelinge overleveringen een beeld van het complexe invasieplan van 6 juni 1944: ……続きを見る

Van D-Day tot Berlijn begint op 7 juni 1944 op de stranden van Normandië en eindigt op 7 mei 1945, de dag dat Duitsland capituleert en er een einde komt aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Stephen E. Ambros……続きを見る