CK - World War II 22

In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the ……続きを見る

British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure. Unfortunately, many of th……続きを見る

This book is a personal story of life on board aircraft carriers during WWII. The author starts his story reminiscing about joining the British Navy and then continues with battles fought and time s……続きを見る

'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPH March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany.……続きを見る

The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-45 analyzes the Pacific War with a focus on America’s participation in the conflict. Fought over a great ocean and vast battlefields using the most sophisti……続きを見る

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La sociedad literaria y el pastel de piel de patata de Guernsey, novela epistolar de Mary Ann Shaffer y Annie Barrows. La historia narra……続きを見る

Em setembro de 1940, Witold Pilecki, um combatente da Resistência polonesa, se ofereceu para uma missão audaciosa: assumir uma identidade falsa, ser intencionalmente capturado e enviado a um campo d……続きを見る

This is a true story. In 1935, the years she was born, Maria Gargano's family moves from Italy to Libya, where her dad is stationed as a marshal major in Mussolini's army. As WWII breaks, they repat……続きを見る

This book is a detailed history of the German side of World War 2. It is based on letters from German soldiers and German families. The study collection consisted of a total of 564 different letters……続きを見る

Dawyck Haig, the only son of the great Field Marshal, was born in 1918, the year of his father's victory. His life has been hugely influenced by the legendary status accorded to his father and, afte……続きを見る

While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in sou……続きを見る

This WWII pictorial history illustrates the wide array of armored vehicles deployed by Allied and Axis powers in Italy. The Second World War campaigns in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and in no……続きを見る

The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of ……続きを見る

This is the biography of one of the Royal Navys legendary pilots. BF or Daddy as he was known, started his career at Dartmouth and then spent his early seagoing years in Hong Kong, Nagasaki and Hiro……続きを見る

Ferdinand J Brockhall, later known as Terry, was born in the late 1920s into the unequivocally privileged arms of colonial tea planters in Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies. A boyhood visit t……続きを見る

May 1940. It was their first taste of war. The raw recruits from the farms, villages and towns around Cupar and Dundee chose to fight in a ‘mechanized cavalry’ regiment. This meant fighting with lig……続きを見る

A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of ***Bletchley Park Brainteasers***and The GCHQ Puzzle Book. ''An original and exciting approach . . . ……続きを見る

The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in ……続きを見る

In this extremely vivid account of the Pearl Harbor attack, Michael Slackman takes us right through the course of events. He starts by scrutinising the circumstances and decisions that prompted the ……続きを見る

The author describes a girl growing up during World War II in a country occupied by the German army. There are tensions and dramatic scenes. The girl has issues with her mother and at the end explai……続きを見る

The essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a ……続きを見る

Een indrukwekkend collectief dagboek van de meidagen van 1940. In de vroege ochtend van 10 mei 1940 werd de argeloos slapende bevolking van Nederland opgeschrikt door het angstaanjagende geluid van ……続きを見る

Der Nürnberger Prozess ging als politischer Prozess in die Geschichte ein. So war er geplant und so nahm die Welt ihn wahr, weil der amerikanische Hauptankläger Robert Jackson nach den »Sternen ein……続きを見る

The concept of strategic assault of a Nation’s industrial and military base by air was heralded by Britain as far back as the immediate period before the start of WWI. However, stringent post-War ec……続きを見る

What is the Great Depression? Why does the Economic World consider it an important event of the 20th Century? How to content ourselves with the event of the Great Depression? So, if these questions ……続きを見る

On a hot August night in 1944, a soldier’s body was discovered hanging by a rope from a cable spanning an obstacle course at Seattle’s Fort Lawton. The body was identified as Private Guglielmo Olivo……続きを見る

“Even after capture, the full horrors of war still persisted. Bombed and strafed by our own planes, and shelled by our own artillery, the words ‘For you the war is over, Tommy,’ had a hollow ring…No……続きを見る

**Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023 A Telegraph Book of the Year A Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the Year One of the great contemporary historians of France** on one of the most controver……続きを見る

During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones……続きを見る

Keine Gedenktafel, kein Platz und keine Straße erinnern heute an ihn: Hans Becker ist in Vergessenheit geraten. Der Journalist Erhard Stackl schildert, wie ein ursprünglich unpolitischer Weltreisen……続きを見る