China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism, Hardcover - Rana Mitter

Reducere. Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"--a key fo...

China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This bo...

Reducere. Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers...

World War II: A New History - Evan Mawdsley

Reducere. This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3, 500 Jews under the noses...

In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-bui...

DescriptionWhen Hitler invaded Poland, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted, instead of retur...

Reducere. DescriptionThe extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest--and arguably bravest--dog of World War IIIn February 1944, as Japanese mi...

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. This work provides an account of the West Indian soldiers in World War I. It focuses on the processes and politics surrounding the participation of...

This work provides an account of the West Indian soldiers in World War I. It focuses on the processes and politics surrounding the participation of...

Reducere. DescriptionIn April 1942, a little over two years before the Tenth Mountain Division officially obtained its name, the U.S. Army began the unpreced...

Reducere. Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August bo...

Reducere. Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. L...

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

Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War II to try the former Nazi leaders for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, known as the Internationa...

I felt Fred's small hand grab me.He patted me and whispered, Bear, I won't leave you here all by yourself.You are my best friend.Based on true even...

Reducere. In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history with this picture-led guide to the Second World War.A war his...

Offers a comprehensive analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawin...

Reducere. Whether they came from Sioux Falls or the Bronx, over half a million Jews entered the U.S. armed forces during the Second World War. Uprooted from ...

Reducere. DescriptionEditorial Reviews From Booklist Called to active duty late in 1943, University of California-San Francisco surgical resident Kerner went...

Reducere. For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals-...

How exactly did we win the war? In a stunningly visual syyle, this illustrated book chronicles World War II from the early rise of Germany's dictat...

Reducere. Explore the history of Pearl Harbor-the attack that brought America into World War 2 On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise...

Reducere. Harry L. Runyan served the United States as an engineering officer during World War II. Supported by award-winning historian and author John V. Qua...

Throughout the book, Colley uses postwar comments by German generals to support his arguments. -- New York Journal of BooksImagine how many lives w...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine - Winner of the Los Ange...

Reducere. Thoughtful, Revealing, Insightful A unique narrative takes us from the sandy beaches of the Jersey Shore and post-war real estate boom to charterin...

DescriptionBuilt around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedra...

This is the story of clothing use when manufacturing for civilians nearly stopped and raw materials and workers across the globe were shifted to wa...

DescriptionPreserved today as a museum in her namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and w...

Reducere. In 1944 a vacant army base in upstate New York became the temporary home of over 900 men, women and children who had fled Europe towards the end of...

A commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the WWII victory, Victory covers the war through "breaking news" stories and photographs from the Associ...

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the "45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever pr...

Reducere. You have heard the names: Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini and Roosevelt. You have read about the battles: Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad and D-Day.But have ...

Reducere. During the dark days of World War II, forty-one individuals from Ganson Street in the industrialized Western New York city of North Tonawanda left ...

Reducere. Spy school, poison pens, exploding muffins, and Night Witches were all a part of World War II, but you won't learn that in your history books Crack...

DescriptionA richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their liv...

DescriptionSmall businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. They are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for...

Reducere. London schoolgirl Hettie hears the whispers and sees the worry creeping across her parents' faces. She watches as the windows in her home are black...

Reducere. Although far from the front lines of war, the people of Idaho contributed to the US effort in World War II in myriad ways. Entrepreneurs perfected ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Smoky, a tiny Yorkie Terrier, is miraculously found in a foxhole in the steaming jungles of Papua New Guinea, she has no way of kno...

This definitive, lavishly illustrated book from National Geographic features an astonishing array of vintage and newly created maps, rare photograp...