Innocent Witnesses: Childhood Memories of World War II, Hardcover - Marilyn Yalom

Reducere. In a book that will touch hearts and minds, acclaimed cultural historian Marilyn Yalom presents firsthand accounts of six witnesses to war, each of...

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

Reducere. Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including SSI reproductio...

Reducere. As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime. --William B. Breuer, in The annals of World War II are mined wit...

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-...

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

Reducere. In 1942, the U.S. began to form a handpicked army to fight in Europe. What made it different is that its troops were composed of artists, actors, m...

This is a major new study of Italian naval camouflage schemes developed and used during World War II. When Italy entered the War in June 1940, the ...

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...

Reducere. "Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees--a top-secret band of brothers--...

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. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Germany's Tiger tank, whether in the form of the Tiger I or later Tiger II (King Tiger), was the most feared tank of WWII. Despite production total...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

Reducere. For five decades, comedian, actor, singer, dancer, and entertainer Bob Hope (1903-2003) traveled the world performing before American and Allied tr...

Reducere. Years ago, a young Jewish boy stood on a broken boat, half buried in the sand, holding a piece of bamboo he had made into a toy telescope. The boy ...

DescriptionThe American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the ...

Reducere. In Prevail until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violen...

DescriptionThe story of an iconic model in the long history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the WLA, which was used by Allied forces during WWII, i...

Reducere. ``Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece ...

Description"Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history--and from our country's most forbidding frontier. D...

Reducere. THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the contr...

"A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED O...

DescriptionIn the Pacific War's early years, Japanese air power was dominant. The only way for the Allies to defeat their enemy was to know it. Thi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FeltonIt is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered... As the Red Army closes in on ...

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...

Reducere. 'Our time together is limited and exceedingly precious. We write to make sense of our existence, even as it sweeps us into the darkest zones of phy...

While most people are aware of the World War II internment of thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the US, few know that Germans, Austri...

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. A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed.On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' -...

Reducere. Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mitsi never expects...

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

The first in a series of books, I Somehow Survived is an extraordinary collection of true stories giving testimony to those who survived World War ...

Reducere. The small, tightknit island community of Martha's Vineyard was irrevocably transformed by World War II. From rationing and blackouts to a military ...

Inna Wolkovich Gardner Nichols' story is not a recount of the horrors of war--for those stories have already been written. Her story is a true pers...

DescriptionLiliane Leila Juma was sixteen years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. S...

Reducere. During World War II, the city of Evansville manufactured vast amounts of armaments that were vital to the Allied victory. The Evansville Ordnance P...

DescriptionEverything changed on the morning of December 7, 1941, and life in San Francisco was no exception. Flush with excitement and tourism in ...

Adopted by the German Wehrmacht at the end of 1939, more than 1.2 million P.38s were manufactured up to 1945. Designed by the Walther company from ...

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 ...

The collective consciousness of World War II revolved around the virtues of bravery, sacrifice, and commitment. Members of the "Greatest Generation...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 25 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 243 x 20Cover type: Har...

Reducere. Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer ""A first-class historian."" --The Wall Street Journal Vendetta ""A wealth of insights.""--Los Angeles Times...

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...