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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brothers in War, 1943-1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Dyson
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 : 9780850522747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Twins in Tanks written by Stephen Dyson and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steve Dyson and his twin brother Tom served in the same troop in a tank regiment which in ten harrowing months fought its way from the Normandy beachhead into the heart of Germany, encountering en route some of the stiffest opposition faced by any Allied units in the last winter of the war. Steve's account of his experiences, based on the diary which, against the rules, he kept at the time, is remarkable both for its honesty and its, often unconscious, humour"--Jacket.
Author : Chris Pratt
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982293713
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Four Brothers in the Pacific War written by Chris Pratt and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave, Ray, Morris and Alex Rohrlach were Australian Lutherans of German descent who served in the Australian Army and Navy in the Pacific during World War Two. In a fascinating biography of the brothers, Chris Pratt chronicles the events of their lives before, during, and in the aftermath of war. Dave, a Lutheran missionary in New Guinea, captained his mission schooner to rescue defeated Australian soldiers from New Britain in the opening months of the war. Ray served in a motorised infantry unit before enduring a year in an isolated malarial outpost in Dutch New Guinea. Morris struggled through two amphibious landings in Japanese occupied Borneo. Alex survived kamikaze attacks and a battle with a Japanese fleet in the Philippines to witness from an Australian heavy cruiser the signing of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. Included are historical maps and photographs provided by the family.
Author : Gerald Astor
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307565610
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Battling Buzzards written by Gerald Astor and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Few and the Brave Convinced by 1943 that the assault upon Nazi-held Europe would yield swiftly to elite troops, the U.S. Army created parachute regimental combat teams. Drawing on daring volunteers willing to hurl themselves from airplanes and hit the ground fighting, the 517th PRCT became one of the most highly trained airborne units in the world. Blooded in northern Italy in 1944, the Battling Buzzards dropped at night in southern France for the second D-day to spearhead a savage advance through the Champagne region and then into the Alps. Gerald Astor, acclaimed author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide, draws on the words of the men of the 517th to create this gripping, action-packed account of a unit that existed for only two years but fought heroically to defeat the vaunted German forces. From its campaign in Italy to its assault in the French Alps, the Battling Buzzards helped push the Germans out of southern Europe one fierce, close-quarter battle at a time. Then, after six months of nonstop action, the exhausted, battle-hardened 517th was called into the ultimate battle — at a place called The Bulge....
Author : Charles D. Pettibone
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426946333
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II written by Charles D. Pettibone and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book contains: 1. All branches of country's military; 2. Their structure and organization; 3. Order of Battle; can follow officers through their commands; 4. Unit/ship insignia or design.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Second World War: The German war 1943-1945 written by Jeremy Black and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work offers an overview of this complex and volatile era, taking into account the political, economic and social factors, as well as military circumstances of the road to war and its consequences.
Author : Ted Grant
Publisher : Wellred Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ted Grant Writings: Volume Two – Trotskyism and the Second World War (1943-1945) written by Ted Grant and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the theme of Trotskyism and the Second World War, this volume covers the period 1943-45. The articles and documents contained within this book cover the period of the emergence of the WIL and the setting up of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The book is divided into three sections. The first deals with the situation in Europe as the war moved towards its conclusion and the Fascist regimes in Italy and Germany collapsed into chaos. The second section deals with events at home and the tasks facing the labour and trade union movement. The final section contains key documents and letters relating to the build up to the formation of the RCP. As in Volume one, Ted's writings are supplemented by other documents to provide a full picture of the situation.
Author : Jack R. Satterfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931209581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book We Band of Brothers written by Jack R. Satterfield and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November, 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, died when the USS Juneau was sunk in the South Pacific. Their deaths brought the reality of the war home to America. This is the story of the brothers, The Battle of Guadalcanal and the effect of the tragedy on the family, community, and nation.
Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429920106
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, one of the war's most complex and controversial commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable. Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, this is narrative history of the first rank. With The Day of Battle, Atkinson has once again given us the definitive account of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.
Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book MacArthur's Jungle War written by Stephen R. Taaffe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His book tells not only how victory was gained through a combination of technology, tactics, and army-navy cooperation but also how the New Guinea campaign exemplified the strategic differences that plagued the Pacific War, since many high-ranking officers considered it a diversionary tactic rather than a key offensive.
Author : Charles W. McArthur
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821801581
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Operations Analysis in the United States Army Eighth Air Force in World War II written by Charles W. McArthur and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operations research grew out of the application of the scientific method to certain problems of war during World War II. This book tells the story of how operations research became an important activity in the Eighth Air Force. It emphasizes the people involved in these historical events, rather than the technical matters with which they dealt.
Author : Hal M. Friedman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813176565
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book War in the American Pacific and East Asia, 1941-1972 written by Hal M. Friedman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1940, the Japanese empire stood as the greatest single threat to the American presence in the Pacific and East Asia. To a lesser degree, the formerly hegemonic colonial powers of Britain, France, and the Netherlands still controlled portions of the region. At the same time, subjugated peoples in East Asia and Southeast Asia struggled to throw off colonialism. By the late 1930s, the competition exploded into armed conflict. Japan looked like the early victor, but the United States eventually established itself as the hegemonic power in the Pacific Basin by 1945. Yet when it comes to the American movement out into the Pacific, there is more to the story that has yet to be revealed. In War in the American Pacific and East Asia, 1941–1972, editor Hal Friedman brings together nine essays that explore lesser known aspects and consequences of America's military expansion into the Pacific during and after World War II. This study explores how the United States won the Pacific War against Japan and how it sought to secure that victory in the decades that followed, ensure it never endured another Pearl Harbor–style defeat, and saw the Pacific fulfill a Manifest Destiny–like role as an American frontier projected toward East Asia. The collection explores the role of the US military in the Pacific Basin in different ways by presenting essays on interservice rivalry and military advising as well as unique topics that are new to military history, such as the investigations of strategic communications, military public relations, institutional cultures of elite forces, foodways, and the military's interaction with the press. Together, these essays provide a path for historians to pursue groundbreaking areas of research about the Pacific and establish the Pacific War as the pivotal point in the twentieth century in the Pacific Basin.
Author : Loyd Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313033153
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes written by Loyd Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-10-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this volume reevaluates the most enduring literature on basic aspects of the war in Asia and the Pacific. It also covers themes pertaining to societies at war, culture, the arts, and science and technology as well as international relations and the postwar world. Included are not only grand strategy, military and naval campaigns, and matters of diplomacy, but also resistance, collaboration, prisoners of war, and broad topics of the home front, including chapters on gender issues, film, literature, popular culture, and propaganda. This volume and its companion provide the first comprehensive historiographic reference work on the war. Each chapter describes the state of knowledge on the topic, relating each bibliographic reference to the chapter's themes and issues, and concludes with a bibliography. Recent original scholarship is included when it aids new understanding, and older works of enduring value also find a place. The essays in this volume will interest scholars and college teachers as well as advanced students and serious amateurs seeking insight into the history of the war and its literature.
Author : Suzanne Agnes
Publisher : Iris Project
ISBN 13 : 9780938075998
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Battle of the Bulge written by Suzanne Agnes and published by Iris Project. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of U.S. Army private from Chicago who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, World War II, and was captured by the Germans, was detained by the Russians at the end of hostilities, then escaped and encountered his brother, who was coming to look for him.
Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541672771
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Stalin's War written by Sean McMeekin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order.
Author : Ben Urwand
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728351
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Collaboration written by Ben Urwand and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this bargain for the first time—a "collaboration" (Zusammenarbeit) that drew in a cast of characters ranging from notorious German political leaders such as Goebbels to Hollywood icons such as Louis B. Mayer. At the center of Urwand's story is Hitler himself, who was obsessed with movies and recognized their power to shape public opinion. In December 1930, his Party rioted against the Berlin screening of All Quiet on the Western Front, which led to a chain of unfortunate events and decisions. Fearful of losing access to the German market, all of the Hollywood studios started making concessions to the German government, and when Hitler came to power in January 1933, the studios—many of which were headed by Jews—began dealing with his representatives directly. Urwand shows that the arrangement remained in place through the 1930s, as Hollywood studios met regularly with the German consul in Los Angeles and changed or canceled movies according to his wishes. Paramount and Fox invested profits made from the German market in German newsreels, while MGM financed the production of German armaments. Painstakingly marshaling previously unexamined archival evidence, The Collaboration raises the curtain on a hidden episode in Hollywood—and American—history.
Author : Janet Kinrade Dethick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716150432
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)
Download or read book As If He Were My Brother written by Janet Kinrade Dethick and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Italian armistice of 8 September 1943 the prisoners of war who had been held in the work camps in the region of Piedmont dispersed into the surrounding countryside. They were in desperate need of assistance - and a place in which to hide from the nazi-fascist forces bent on hunting them down. Many Italians from all walks of life came to their aid. After the war the Allied Screening Commission invited these people to submit a claim for expenses. Their requests, which vividly desribe the risks they ran, from having their house burnt down to being arrested and shot, form the subject of this book.
