Aftershock: The Human Toll of War: Haunting World War II Images by America's Soldier Photographers, Hardcover - Richard Cahan

The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A ...

Contributor(s): Author: Louise BordenSki Soldier is a true-life adventure story for readers ages 10 to 14 by noted nonfiction writer Louise Borden....

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandab...

Reducere. Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced...

Reducere. In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...

Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, ...

Reducere. Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot ``the actions of simple soldiers....I believe that true heroism...

DescriptionThe epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy's mountai...

Reducere. One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called Good War. The Greatest Generation, we're told by To...

Reducere. The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a forc...

Reducere. German infantry during World War Two was the most highly trained infantry in the world. They trained hard and fought even harder. These individuals...

Reducere. The deadliest war in history brought to life through bold, easy-to-grasp maps. Follow the key developments of World War II in unprecedented visual ...

Reducere. This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern wor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholson BakerBestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America ...

This book documents the development and production of the M4A1 through its many variations, as well as its combat use around the globe. Produced by...

DescriptionThis gripping, fully illustrated title follows the story of the men of 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the comrades of...

Reducere. When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breat...

';Compelling and readable ... I had serious trouble putting this book down.'John C. McManus, author of Fire and Fortitude and The Dead and Those Ab...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the action-filled biography of Marvin E. Gilmore, Jr., an African-American musician-turned-businessman, the grandson of slaves, ...

During the Second World War, British artists produced over 6, 000 works of war art, the result of a government scheme partly designed to prevent th...

A perfect introduction to the conflict, The History of World War II gives an accessible history of events with a detailed timeline. The book is div...

DescriptionVolume 2 on the famed Sherman medium tank covers the welded-hull, radial-engine-equipped M4 and documents its development and production...

The deadliest war in history brought to life through bold, easy-to-grasp maps.Follow the key developments of World War II in unprecedented visual d...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr William WolfIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with around 50 photos and at least 5pp of col...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of training, combat, and segregation written by multiple members of the Tuskegee Airmen *Includes online reso...

Reducere. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery, " the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly...

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn December 1943 the newly formed 359th Fighter Group flew its first mission in the European Theater of Operations. Twenty-two months la...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Takuma MelberTranslator: Nick SomersNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 20Cover typ...

Reducere. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military pilots in the United States armed forces. Flying bombers and fighters, they completed ...

A new perspective on the D-Day landings with the heroic stories of a number of agents sent into Nazi Occupied Europe.

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Richard DargieIllustration(s): Five paperback books in a slipcasePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 209...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Georgii Samoilovich Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works, this book provides the first full-len...

A concise history of the Second World War.

DescriptionThe Medium Tank, M4, better known to the British as the Sherman, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and western A...

Reducere. The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-Wo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer D. KeeneWorld War I explores the daily lives of the men and women who served the United States in the Great War. R...

DescriptionA stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last...

Reducere. One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dam...