Taking Leave, Taking Liberties: American Troops on the World War II Home Front, Hardcover - Aaron Hiltner

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." But the assaults, rapes, and other br...

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Brave soldiers, important battles, life on the Home Front! It's time to learn everything about the Second World War.

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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...

A marriage simply meant to be?Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Fiona McArthurNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 107...

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

The notion of "freedom" has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental to an understanding of Scotland and the Scots, and...

Reducere. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency -- Pearl Harbor -- a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe all-new book, Modeling World War II in Europe, features a variety of modeling subjects that fought in the European Theater from the ...

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

Reducere. Action-packed stories of the T-34 in action Vivid recollections of tank warfare on the Eastern Front Vivid recollections of tank warfare on the Eas...

When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen...

Reducere. Not everyone in the U.S. military was rooting for America.In 1942, in its rush to assemble a force of seven million to take on the Axis powers, the...

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One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

Reducere. Mountain Troops And Medics is a complete World War II Combat History of the U.S. Tenth Mountain Division written by Albert H. Meinke, Jr., M.D., wh...

This detailed volume offers a comprehensive guide to the uniforms and equipment of the little known Croatian units that fought alongside Nazi Germa...

A veteran of burnout himself, Legault looks at the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the envir...

Reducere. "The conventional view of World War II as a conflict that was not fought in the Americas is debunked in this fascinating book. German submarine war...

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

DescriptionEnid is one of those West Indians who came to England in the fifties, determined to become "little Miss English." Abandoned by her husba...

The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone 'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and h...

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DescriptionTaking Shape traces the emergence and development of abstraction in the Arab world through paintings and sculpture dating from the 1950s...

Reducere. University professor Neil Thomas was a committed Darwinist and agnostic-until an investigation of evolutionary theory led him to a startling conclu...

A in-depth look at the heroic fighting forces of the Second World War

"We don't need a new mother, " declares a bereft, eight-year-old, after devastating loss. Into this postwar, Philadelphia family enters a German-bo...

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Reducere. Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the ...

During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included ...

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Compiling the stories of noncombat veterans, Rona Simmons follows them as they report for service, complete their training, and ship out to station...

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 ...

Detailed, evocative account of desertion on the home front during the First World War.Illustrations: 20 black and white illustrations