World War II

This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in techno...

The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity ...

Camp X - the top secret World War II 'secret agent training camp on the shores of Lake Ontario.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

For years, Churchill warned the British government against the growing Nazi threat. For years he was ignored. Politically isolated in Parliament, sometimes...

in The Tradition Of Jon Krakauer’s into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s the Perfect Storm Comes A True Tale Of Riveting Adventure In Which Two Weekend Scub...

A Biography Of The Japanese Emperor Reveals A Powerful Man Who Successfully Cultivated An Image Of A Reluctant King While Manipulating Important Events Behi...

Many books on the Luftwaffe in World War II have been published over the years, although the Night Fighter´s branch has been studied less often. In our Gui...

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimesAcclaimed hist...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima Was Destroyed By The First Atom Bomb Ever Dropped On A City. This Book, John Hersey's Journalistic Masterpiece, Tells What Happ...

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and h...

Peter Caddick-Adams, one of the world's authorities on battle field history, writes a compelling and authoritative account of the greatest battle of the Ita...

This biography takes the perspective that Churchill always believed he was destined for greatness, and thus, throughout his life, positioned himself in his...

This Is The Second In The Comprehensive Ten-volume Germany And The Second World War. The Five Volumes So Far Published In German Take The Story To The End O...

general Chuck Yeager, The Greatest Test Pilot Of Them All — The First Man To Fly Faster Than The Speed Of Sound . . .the World War Ii Flying Ace Who Shot ...

a Stunning Look At World War Ii From The Other Side... from The Turret Of A German Tank, Colonel Hans Von Luck Commanded Rommel's 7th And Then 21st Panzer...

The Third Of Six Volumes On The History Of The Axis Invasion Of The Ussr. Volume Iib Completes The German Armed Forces, Mobilisation And War Economy During ...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...

James Bradley With Ron Powers. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [365]-366) And Index.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

Based On Years Of Original Research And New Reporting, Two Acclaimed Authors Deliver The Riveting And Emotionally Wrenching Full Story Of The Worst Sea Disa...

George G. Blackburn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

a Special 60th Anniversary Edition Of The Bestselling Re-creation Of The Surprise Attack On Pearl Harbor, By The Author Of a Night To Remember. sunday, De...

The Inspiring Story of a World War II Hero's Miraculous Survival at SeaJuly 30, 1945--The USS Indianapolis and its 1,196-man crew is making its way toward ...

Democracies Do Not Die; They Are Killed. Democracy In Crisis Explores How A Democracy, Grounded In Fair Elections, Parliamentary Institutions, And A Liberal...

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citi...

Robert H. Farquharson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

The New York Public Library, in looking back on the greatest books of the past century, called Churchill's history "monumental" and said that the author "d...

Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewr...

On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as a...

The Annals Of History Are Littered With Horribly Bad Military Leaders. These Combat Incompetents Found Amazing Ways To Ensure Their Army's Defeat. Whether I...

Biography Of One Of The Most Controversial American Generals. Reveille -- First Call -- Ruffles And Flourishes (1880-1917) -- Charge (1917-1918) -- Call To ...

Reenacts the events of the Bataan and Corregidor battles of World War II through the eyes of the doctors, nurses, and soldiers interviewed after the warCate...

When was the last time someone around you brought up World War Two?It’s a pretty popular war. Maybe you heard about it yesterday. Maybe last month. But it...

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Devil In The White City And Dead Wake Delivers A Fresh And Compelling Portrait Of Winston Churchill And Lond...

Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fas...

An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous mi...

A Portrait Of Washington, D.c. During The Days Of World War Ii. Waiting -- The Battle For Washington -- Bureaucracies At War -- Locked In Deadly Struggle .....

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFor eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her a...

Now in paperback-the 'amazing'( James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of...

16 Million Copies Sold 'a Book To Read, To Cherish, To Debate, And One That Will Ultimately Keep The Memories Of The Victims Alive' John Boyne, Author Of Th...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day...

Based On Years Of Original Research And New Reporting, Two Acclaimed Authors Deliver The Riveting And Emotionally Wrenching Full Story Of The Worst Sea Disa...

Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important naval battles in the history of World War II (1939-1945), Midway, which was fought barely six months a...

Autumn 1944. World War Ii Is Nearly Over In Europe But Is Escalating In The Pacific, Where American Soldiers Face An Opponent Who Will Go To Any Length To A...

the First World War Created The Modern World. A Conflict Of Unprecedented Ferocity, It Abruptly Ended The Relative Peace And Prosperity Of The Victorian Er...

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events...

this Magisterial Volume Follows The Death Of Ancient Traditions, The Triumph Of New Classes, And The Emergence Of New Technologies, Sciences, And Ideologi...

A youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than most. But on May 27, 1943, it...