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Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Second World War written by Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Second World War written by Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Whitehead
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823226751
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Combat Reporter written by Don Whitehead and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Romeiser has woven both the North African diary and Whitehead's memoir of the subsequent landings in Sicily into a story of eight months during some of the most brutal combat of the war. Here, Whitehead captures the fierce fighting in the African desert and Sicilian mountains, as well as rare insights into the daily grind of reporting from a war zone, where tedium alternated with terror."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307824802
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book In Command of History written by David Reynolds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945, he courageously led his nation and the world away from appeasement, into war, and on to triumph over the Axis dictators. His classic six-volume account of those years, The Second World War, has shaped our perceptions of the conflict and secured Churchill’s place as its most important chronicler. Now, for the first time, a book explains how Churchill wrote this masterwork, and in the process enhances and often revises our understanding of one of history’s most complex, vivid, and eloquent leaders. In Command of History sheds new light on Churchill in his multiple, often overlapping roles as warrior, statesman, politician, and historian. Citing excerpts from the drafts and correspondence for Churchill’s magnum opus, David Reynolds opens our eyes to the myriad forces that shaped its final form. We see how Churchill’ s manuscripts were vetted by Whitehall to conceal secrets such as the breaking of the Enigma code by British spymasters at Bletchley Park, and how Churchill himself edited the volumes to avoid offending postwar statesmen such as Tito, Charles de Gaulle, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. We explore his confusions about the true story of the atomic bomb, learn of his second thoughts about Stalin, and watch him repackage himself as a consistent advocate of the D-Day landings. In Command of History is a major work that forces us to reconsider much received wisdom about World War II. It also peels back the covers from an unjustly neglected period of Churchill’s life, his “second wilderness” years, 1945—1951. During this time Churchill, now over seventy, wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into 10 Downing Street, and delivered some of the most vital oratory of his career, including his pivotal “iron curtain” speech. Exhaustively researched and dazzlingly written, this is a revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most profiled figures, a work by a historian in full command of his craft. “A fascinating account that accomplishes the impossible: [Reynolds] actually finds something new and interesting to say about one of the most chronicled characters of all time.” –The New York Times Book Review A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A BEST HISTORY OF THE YEAR SELECTION –The New York Sun NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Second World War written by Winston Churchill and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 1959 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Catlett Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918 written by George Catlett Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George C. Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. He drafted this manuscript while he was in Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1924 as aide-de-camp to General of the Armies John J. Pershing. However, given the growing bitterness of the "memoirs wars" of the period he decided against publication, and the draft sat unused until the 1970s when Marshall's step-daughter and her husband decided to publish it.
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Their Finest Hour written by Winston Churchill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their Finest Hour covers the period in World War 2 after the fall of France when Britain stood alone, with victorious Germany and Italy engaged in mortal attack upon them, with Soviet Russia a hostile neutral actively aiding Hitler, and Japan an unknowable menace. Churchill labeled the "moral of the work" as follows: "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill"
Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316720519
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Red Army and the Second World War written by Alexander Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.
Author : Frances Houghton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496911
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Veterans' Tale written by Frances Houghton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.
Author : John Boeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Morotai written by John Boeman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Blaichman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628727861
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Rather Die Fighting written by Frank Blaichman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped. Together they formed a partisan force dedicated to fighting the Germans. This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II.
Author : Felix Kersten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871879125
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)
Download or read book The Kersten Memoirs 1940-1945 written by Felix Kersten and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Langrehr
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063027445
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Whatever It Took written by Henry Langrehr and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom. Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares his experiences at last in one of the most remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, was among the thousands of Allies who parachuted into occupied France. Surviving heavy anti-aircraft fire, he crashed through the glass roof of a greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église. While many of the soldiers in his unit died, Henry and other surviving troops valiantly battled enemy tanks to a standstill. Then, on June 29th, Henry was captured by the Nazis. The next phase of his incredible journey was beginning. Kept for a week in the outer ring of a death camp, Henry witnessed the Nazis’ unspeakable brutality—the so-called Final Solution, with people marched to their deaths, their bodies discarded like cords of wood. Transported to a work camp, he endured horrors of his own when he was forced to live in unbelievable squalor and labor in a coal mine with other POWs. Knowing they would be worked to death, he and a friend made a desperate escape. When a German soldier cornered them in a barn, the friend was fatally shot; Henry struggled with the soldier, killing him and taking his gun. Perilously traveling westward toward Allied controlled land on foot, Henry faced the great ethical and moral dilemmas of war firsthand, needing to do whatever it took to survive. Finally, after two weeks behind enemy lines, he found an American unit and was rescued. Awaiting him at home was Arlene, who, like millions of other American women, went to work in factories and offices to build the armaments Henry and the Allies needed for victory. Whatever It Took is her story, too, bringing to life the hopes and fears of those on the homefront awaiting their loved ones to return. A tale of heroism, hope, and survival featuring 30 photographs, Whatever It Took is a timely reminder of the human cost of freedom and a tribute to unbreakable human courage and spirit in the darkest of times.
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780395599686
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Second World War written by Winston Churchill and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential account of the Second World War as seen by Winston Churchill, its greatest leader As Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, Winston Churchill was not only the most powerful player in World War II but also the free world's most eloquent voice of defiance in the face of Nazi tyranny. Churchill's epic accounts of those times, remarkable for their grand sweep and incisive firsthand observations, are distilled here in a single essential volume. Memoirs of the Second World War is a vital and illuminating work that retains the drama, eyewitness details, and magisterial prose of his classic six-volume history and offers an invaluable view of pivotal events of the twentieth century.
Author : Brenda Love
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book WWII Memoirs written by Brenda Love and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us never explore the effects WWII had on future generations and how all our lives might be different if there had been no war. More than 60 international writers have contributed their family's experiences to this anthology. Their stories include Allied and Axis veterans, POWs, partisans, women aviators, camp survivors, and civilians on the home front. Many of our writers had to overcome a great sadness as they wrote, but despite this felt it was important to document these, the darkest days of our history. The strength, courage, and perseverance in these stories reminds us that the human spirit will not be broken. Experience WWII through these stories of incredible men and women who lived it.
Author : Dmitri? Fedorovich Loza
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803229204
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks written by Dmitri? Fedorovich Loza and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza has carefully crafted his World War II experiences with U.S.-provided Sherman tanks into a highly readable memoir. Between the fall of 1943 and August 1945, Loza fought in the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. He commanded a tank battalion during much of this period and had three Shermans shot out from under him. Loza's unit participated in such well-known combat actions as the Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy Operation, the Jassy-Kishenev Operation, and the battles for Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. Following the German surrender, Loza's unit was sent to Mongolia, where it participated in the arduous trek across the Gobi Desert to attack the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. This is the first available detailed examination of the Red Army's exploitation of U.S. war matiriel during World War II and one of the first genuine memoirs available from the Russian front. Loza also provides firsthand testimony on tactical command decisions, group objectives and how they were accomplished, and Soviet use of combat equipment and intelligence. Only after the collapse of the USSR and concomitant relaxing of prohibitions against publication of materials related to the Lend-Lease Program there could this account be made available Dmitriy Loza served as an instructor at the Frunze Academy after the war, retiring in 1967 with the rank of colonel. He resides in Moscow. James F. Gebhardt, now a defense contractor at Fort Leavenworth, is a Vietnam veteran. He is the author of Blood on the Shores: Soviet Naval Commandos in World War II.
Author : Robert M. Gates
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307959481
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Duty written by Robert M. Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.
