Book Description
Spotlights the important events and people of World War II.
Author : Louis Leo Snyder
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 1958
Category : History
ISBN : 9780531006764
Spotlights the important events and people of World War II.
Author : Peter F. Copeland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2004-12-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486436950
Forty-five scenes from the battle of Britain, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, battle of Stalingrad, Allied invasion of France, dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, the fall of Berlin, and more.
Author : Marc Favreau
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1595581669
Presents interviews, photographs, letters, oral histories, stories, eyewitness accounts, and excerpts from historical writings from different perspectives on a wide variety of topics related to the Second World War.
Author : W.c. Heinz
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0786749881
Before W. C. Heinz embarked on his illustrious career as one of the premier sports writers of the past fifty years, he served as a war correspondent for the New York Sun. Now for the first time ever, Heinz's finest work on World War II, written both during and after the war, is collected in one volume. From his first-person account aboard the U.S.S. Nevada during D-Day in 1944 to his legendary dispatches from the towns and battlefields of the European front, Heinz vividly conveys the courage, humor, and humanity of men under fire. Whether describing a battle scene or a soldier, Heinz brings home the war like few others ever have. In the second half of the book, he and his fourteen-year-old son, Bud, revisit the beaches of Normandy with D-Day veteran Major General Earl Rudder, who recounts his experiences there; in another story he describes, in his patented you-are-there style, the morning three German spies were executed; and in the concluding piece, Heinz revisits many of the towns he journeyed through as the American army fought its way across Europe twenty years before.When We Were One is a superb collection of writing on World War II that ranks with the finest ever assembled on any war.
Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1402740905
Traces the causes of World War II, explores the motivations of important people involved with it, presents the events of the war grouped by the theater in which they took place, and examines its aftermath.
Author : Louis Leo Snyder
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1958
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Spotlights the important events and people of World War II.
Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 045149007X
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Against All Odds, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. “Meet the assaulters: pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock . . . Fast-paced and up close, this is history’s greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can.”—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as a French commando, returning to his native land, who fought to destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach and beyond. Readers will experience the sheer grit of the Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc and the astonishing courage of the airborne soldiers who captured the Merville Gun Battery in the face of devastating enemy counterattacks. The first to fight when the stakes were highest and the odds longest, these men would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler’s fortress Europe—and the very history of the twentieth century. The result is an epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism. It is the capstone Alex Kershaw’s remarkable career, built on his close friendships with D-Day survivors and his intimate understanding of the Normandy battlefield. For the seventy-fifth anniversary, here is a fresh take on World War II's longest day. Praise for The First Wave: “Masterful... readers will feel the sting of the cold surf, smell the acrid cordite that hung in the air, and duck the zing of machine-gun bullets whizzing overhead. The First Wave is an absolute triumph.”—James M. Scott, bestselling author of Target Tokyo “These pages ooze with the unforgettable human drama of history's most consequential invasion.”—John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2009
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 142963457X
"Describes the events of World War II and explains the significance of the war today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a member of the Dutch resistance, a Canadian soldier, and an American soldier"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2010-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1439128227
Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
Author : C. Frederick Schwan
Publisher : B N R Press
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :