Hawaiian Railway Album
Author : Gale E. Treiber
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781931477116
Author : Gale E. Treiber
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781931477116
Author : Marisabina Russo
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A family's survival of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II in Hitler's Germany.
Author : John D. Plating
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1603442375
Chronicling the most ambitious airlift in history . . . Carried out over arguably the world’s most rugged terrain, in its most inhospitable weather system, and under the constant threat of enemy attack, the trans-Himalayan airlift of World War II delivered nearly 740,000 tons of cargo to China, making it possible for Chinese forces to wage war against Japan. This operation dwarfed the supply delivery by land over the Burma and Ledo Roads and represented the fullest expression of the U.S. government’s commitment to China. In this groundbreaking work—the first concentrated historical study of the world’s first sustained combat airlift operation—John D. Plating argues that the Hump airlift was initially undertaken to serve as a display of American support for its Chinese ally, which had been at war with Japan since 1937. However, by 1944, with the airlift’s capability gaining momentum, American strategists shifted the purpose of air operations to focus on supplying American forces in China in preparation for the U.S.’s final assault on Japan. From the standpoint of war materiel, the airlift was the precondition that made possible all other allied military action in the China-Burma-India theater, where Allied troops were most commonly inserted, supplied, and extracted by air. Drawing on extensive research that includes Chinese and Japanese archives, Plating tells a spellbinding story in a context that relates it to the larger movements of the war and reveals its significance in terms of the development of military air power. The Hump demonstrates the operation’s far-reaching legacy as it became the example and prototype of the Berlin Airlift, the first air battle of the Cold War. The Hump operation also bore significantly on the initial moves of the Chinese Civil War, when Air Transport Command aircraft moved entire armies of Nationalist troops hundreds of miles in mere days in order to prevent Communist forces from being the ones to accept the Japanese surrender.
Author : Annelex Hofstra Layson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426303210
The author recounts her childhood experiences as a Japanese prisoner during World War II.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 1428915850
Author : Lia Levi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 006306510X
WINNER OF THE MILDRED L. BATCHELDER AWARD! In this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places. This classic, powerful story from Lia Levi is adapted for young readers, with beautiful black-and-white illustrations, a family photo album, and a powerful author’s note to readers. 1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice—until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can’t go to school, Jews can’t work, or go on vacation. It’s difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to her family. When her father loses his job, they must give up their home and move from city to city. As war comes closer, it becomes too dangerous to stay together, and Lia and her sisters are sent to hide at a convent. Will she ever be “just a girl” again? The memoir is full of poignant moments of friendship and loss, dreaded tests at school, told in Lia's captivating voice, as she grows into a young teen. Just a Girl is an important addition to the WWII Jewish canon.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A pictorial record of the Navy during World War II presents more than 150 photographs of sailors as they trained, prepared, and found time to relax in the shadow of war.
Author : Wil S. Hylton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1101616253
From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.
Author : M.T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0763691003
Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.
Author : Tom Brokaw
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0375760415
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American experience, from the centers of power to the most humble corners of the land.” —Tom Brokaw In this beautiful American family album of stories from the Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in people’s own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March. A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation. Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war—in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway—as well as their lives on the home front. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique book preserves a people’s rich historical heritage and the legacy of a nation’s heroism in war and its courage in peace—in the shaping of their lives and of the world we have today.