World War II Battle by Battle

Reducere. An up-close look at the battles of World War II for kids ages 8 to 12Help kids learn all about World War II--right from the front lines. This fasci...

German Ground Forces of World War II offers the first comprehensive order of battle for German ground troops throughout the Second World War, from ...

Reducere. Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second W...

Featuring 75 battlefield sites divided by wartime theatre, World War II Battlefields allows the reader to explore well-known battle locations aroun...

A critical examination of the leadership successes and failures of senior American commanders during the largest battle fought by the U.S. Army in ...

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. Day-by-day account of a Waffen SS battle group during a pivotal World War II battle Groundbreaking you-are-there approach integrates eyewitness rep...

Reducere. The battle of Kursk, fought in the summer of 1943, involved six thousand German and Soviet armored vehicles, making it the biggest tank battle of a...

This is the story of the amphibious march across the Pacific from theAleutians to Okinawa from the experiences of shipmates aboard the USS J. Frank...

Reducere. A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five...

On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assiste...

From top secret spy missions to recently declassified WWII documents, this richly illustrated account of the covert espionage operations of World W...

Reducere. The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told. With the same "grunt's-eye-view" na...

Reducere. WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS LEADERS, COMMANDERS AND PERPETRATORSWorld War II: Six Years That Changed World History, a short history of the...

Reducere. Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II Compares the Sherman to other t...

Battle of the Bulge - World War IIThe bloodiest battle in American history earned its name from the war correspondents who were covering the confli...

Reducere. As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy tha...

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever foug...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter Caddick-AdamsBetween December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavi...

Reducere. Between December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, Fra...

Reducere. During World War II, prisoners of war were required by the Geneva Conventions to be treated according to established rules. But in late 1944, when ...

DescriptionVivid storytelling brings World War II history to life and place readers in the shoes of the people who experienced Germany's last major...

Reducere. Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destructio...

This volume covers September 3rd, 1939 to September 6th, 1940 of World War II. The book uses extracts from a log compiled by the Ministry of Home S...

Reducere. - English translation of the military manual that guided the German Army in World War II - This book was carried into battle by officers and NCOs a...

A masterful account of a vital four months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, ...

The idea of British soldiers using American tanks was not viewed with a great deal of enthusiasm by the British Army. They perceived American tanks...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

Reducere. On February 19, 1945, nearly 70, 000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately ...

Reducere. DescriptionA new analysis of exactly how Allied and German tanks fought the Battle of the Bulge, one of the great tank battles of World War II. The...

A masterful account of a vital five months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, ...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The passive res...

Reducere. - Graphic account of a bloody battle on the Eastern Front in the final months of World War II - The Germans defended K strin tenaciously--with high...

Reducere. There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn ...

Reducere. There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn ...

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Grannetino served in the US navy during World War II. From the day he landed on Omaha Beach to the morning he sailed out of the ...

DescriptionThis title offers a detailed look at the crucial but little-acknowledged role of the German heavy flak guns in the defense against allie...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom heavy tanks to self-propelled guns, this highlyillustrated technical guide introduces all the main types of armored fighting vehicl...

Complete with approximately 40 original black and white photographs and battle maps. This book is part of the World War II From Original Sources se...

Reducere. THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you wil...

Reducere. THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you wil...

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

An extraordinary 360-degree account of the bloodiest Falklands battleA unique and unprecedented masterpiece of immersive military publishing, Three...

Reducere. The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II First published in 194...

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945 Beevor's Ardennes 1944: ...

Reducere. Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: S. L. a. MarshallS.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startle...

About World War IIIn collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history with this picture-led guide to the Second W...

There are two styles of leadership at war in the world.On one side the mechanical leader casts a vision of heroic action aided by pragmatism, reaso...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring World War II U.S. forces had to keep battle plans and other top secret information out of the enemy's hands. Coded messages were ...

Reducere. Illustrated with detailed artworks of Wehrmacht vehicles and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, The Essential Vehicle Iden...

Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, ...

Peter Harmsen has once again ingeniously woven a vast range of Chinese, Japanese and Western source materials into a vivid tapestry of intense pers...

Reducere. Summer 1944. When German sniper Dieter Rohde's older brother is unjustly shot for desertion by the SS, he will stop at nothing to win the Iron Cros...

Reducere. By now the world knows well the exploits of World War II admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and "Bull" Halsey. These brilliant strategists and c...

Reducere. The History of the 101st Airborne Division is the epic story of the Division from its activation in August 1942 through the completion of Operation...

Reducere. The History of the 101st Airborne Division is the epic story of the Division from its activation in August 1942 through the completion of Operation...

Reducere. The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit The Three Death Se...

Features 12 accounts that describe the battle experience, the different nations' attitudes toward imprisonment, and the often-barbaric treatment of...

Reducere. The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Austral...

Award NameYalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young AdultsAward categoryYoung Adult NonfictionExcellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults F...

Reducere. Okinawa, Japan. The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and Tourism. Before Okinawa, there was Ryukyu, an independent king...

Reducere. The untold story of the post-war battle for Adolf Hitler's giant Volkswagen factory and the Porsche-designed car that became an icon for generation...

DescriptionFrom critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the German resurgence after the battle of St...

Reducere. From city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class commun...

In the build-up to World War II both the United States and Japan believed their battleships would play a central role in battle, but after the Paci...

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 ...

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...

Reducere. In December 1941, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunges the United States into war. Fresh from the hardscrabble mountains of Appalachia, Deac...

Reducere. There are worse horrors than the evils that men do. Near the end of World War II, during the Battle of The Bulge, a US Army unit pursues a renegade...