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Author : Scott Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Washington at War, 1941-1945 written by Scott Hart and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary R. Hess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118806581
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The United States at War, 1941 - 1945 written by Gary R. Hess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 3rd edition presents a concise overview of how the war was fought as well as a consideration of the ways in which Americans regarded allies and enemies, embraced heroes, and viewed the war's purpose. Making the important distinction between popular notions and military and political realities, Gary Hess helps today's readers to better understand the complexity of the conflict. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarship, this latest edition also includes new material to underscore more fully the moral dimensions of the war, including the American decision to use the atomic bomb, the ruthless campaigns of both the Germans and Russians in Eastern Europe, American reaction to the Holocaust as well as the government's post-war tolerance and protection of Nazis deemed valuable to Cold War research and intelligence. Enhanced coverage of specific topics including the Bataan Death March, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Allied uncovering of concentration camps rounds out the narrative.
Author : Leo Marks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743200896
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Between Silk and Cyanide written by Leo Marks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe. As a top codemaker, Marks had a unique perspective on one of the most fascinating and, until now, little-known aspects of the Second World War. This stunning memoir, often funny, always gripping and acutely sensitive to the human cost of each operation, provides a unique inside picture of the extraordinary SOE organization at work and reveals for the first time many unknown truths about the conduct of the war. SOE was created in July 1940 with a mandate from Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze." Its main function was to infiltrate agents into enemy-occupied territory to perform acts of sabotage and form secret armies in preparation for D-Day. Marks's ingenious codemaking innovation was to devise and implement a system of random numeric codes printed on silk. Camouflaged as handkerchiefs, underwear, or coat linings, these codes could be destroyed message by message, and therefore could not possibly be remembered by the agents, even under torture. Between Silk and Cyanide chronicles Marks's obsessive quest to improve the security of agents' codes and how this crusade led to his involvement in some of the war's most dramatic and secret operations. Among the astonishing revelations is his account of the code war between SOE and the Germans in Holland. He also reveals for the first time how SOE fooled the Germans into thinking that a secret army was operating in the Fatherland itself, and how and why he broke the code that General de Gaulle insisted be available only to the Free French. By the end of this incredible tale, truly one of the last great World War II memoirs, it is clear why General Eisenhower credited the SOE, particularly its communications department, with shortening the war by three months. From the difficulties of safeguarding the messages that led to the destruction of the atomic weapons plant at Rjukan in Norway to the surveillance of Hitler's long-range missile base at Peenemünde to the true extent of Nazi infiltration of Allied agents, Between Silk and Cyanide sheds light on one of the least-known but most dramatic aspects of the war. Writing with the narrative flair and vivid characterization of his famous screenplays, Marks gives free rein to his keen sense of the absurd and wry wit without ever losing touch with the very human side of the story. His close relationship with "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo -- two of the greatest British agents of the war -- and his accounts of the many others he dealt with result in a thrilling and poignant memoir that celebrates individual courage and endeavor, without losing sight of the human cost and horror of war.
Author : Clark G. Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862838126
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (381 download)
Download or read book America at war written by Clark G. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Polenberg
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book War and Society written by Richard Polenberg and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the radical alteration of the character of American society caused by World War II. The war redefined the relationship of government to the individual and of individuals to each other, and it posed questions about the relationship between civilians and the military, between liberty and security, between special interests and national purpose.
Author : Richard R. Lingeman
Publisher : New York : Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Don't You Know There's a War On? written by Richard R. Lingeman and published by New York : Putnam. This book was released on 1970 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] is the story of what happened in the United States between Pearl Harbor and V-J Day. For those ... who were in this country then, the book will be a trip down memory lane. For others, it will be pure history. For all, it will be a thorough re-creation of the events, sometimes ludicrous and sometimes tragic, and personalities that left their mark upon America during a period of transition and upheaval. V-girls and V-mail, Willow Run and Henry Kaiser, dollar-a-year men and C stickers, Sidney Hillman and Rosie the Riveter, Ernie Pyle and The Voice of the Turtle, Veronica Lake and 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree,' blackouts and the internment of the Japanese. These are but a few of the hundreds of phenomena of the American home front during World War II that Richard Lingeman has recaptured. Six years in the research and writing, the book exhibits as sharp an eye for small, revelatory details--civil defense measures in Wyoming, milk shortages in Texas, and one-armed outfielders--as for large and crucial subjects such as the response of industry to war and shifting population patterns that changed the face of the nation. While there is no doubt that [this book] is sheer reading pleasure (just look at the index for all you never knew or have forgotten to remember), there is equally little doubt that it is filled with insights and information that record permanent alterations in the American way of life. The war brought new, if still limited, opportunities to both the Negro and to women, and it is perhaps significant that in 1945 the two groups were thought to be worth almost exactly the same on the labor market. And if the war definitively ended the Depression, it was at the price of the military-industrial complex with which we live today. Thus the book simultaneously reveals the past and does much to explain the present. Ultimately, though, what emerges most clearly is a portrait of everyday life in America in a time of unprecedented national emergency. Predictably enough, there are heroes and villains, excesses and deprivations, valor and foolishness. Seldom has an era been so carefully and vividly brought back to life, and it is all here in a book that is destined to take its place beside Only Yesterday and The Aspirin Age as a classic of significant popular history."--Dust jacket.
Author : John Costello
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688016200
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Pacific War written by John Costello and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Aleutians been so brilliantly woven together to provide a clear account of one of the most massive movements of men and arms in history. The complex social, political, and economic causes that underlay the war are here carefully analyzed, impelling the reader to see it as the inevitable conclusion to a series of historical events. And the bloody fighting that indelibly recorded names like Midway and Iwo Jima in the annals of human conflict is described in detail, through its ominous conclusion in the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Author : Mary H. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Chronology, 1941-1945 written by Mary H. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Frey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410221957
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)
Download or read book A History of the Petroleum Administration for War, 1941-1945 written by John W. Frey and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This record of the operations of the Petroleum Administration for War, and its predecessor agency, the Office of Petroleum Coordinator, covering the period from May 28, 1941, to May 8, 1946, is one of a series of histories of wartime Government agencies, prepared in accordance with instructions by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry S. Truman. It is more, however, than simply another report of simply another Federal agency. It is the history of a unique experience, dealing with an unprecedented program of Government-industry cooperation. The program began in June 1941, when representatives of the petroleum industry from all parts of the country were invited to Washington to meet with the then newly created Office of Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense of which Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes had been designated Coordinator. The oilmen, most of whom later acknowledged that they had been fearful of some new and far-reaching measures of Federal control, were told by the Coordinator and the Deputy Coordinator that all that was wanted of them was cooperation in what was then a vast and growing national defense effort, later to become a prodigious war job. The relationship, the leaders of petroleum were assured, was to be that of a team---a partnership.
Author : Fern Chandonnet
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231354
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Alaska at War, 1941-1945 written by Fern Chandonnet and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671792172
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Pacific Campaign written by Dan Van der Vat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743252225
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Sea of Thunder written by Evan Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos.
Author : United States. Petroleum Administration for War
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the Petroleum Administration for War, 1941-1945 written by United States. Petroleum Administration for War and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clark G. Reynolds
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 9780831703004
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)
Download or read book America at War written by Clark G. Reynolds and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles America's involvement in World War II, the country's tranformation from an isolationist republic to a world leader, and how Americans lived through those years
Author : Francis Pike
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350021229
Total Pages : 1209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Hirohito's War written by Francis Pike and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war; Emperor Hirohito's war guilt; the inevitability of US Victory; the abilities of General MacArthur and Admiral Yamamoto; the role of China, Great Britain and Australia; military and naval technology; and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources, including more details on logistics, economics, POWs, submarines and kamikaze, as well as a 1930-1945 timeline and over 200 maps.
Author : Gerald Astor
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Greatest War written by Gerald Astor and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness accounts of what American soldiers thought, felt, saw, heard, and tried to do in World War II.
Download or read book United States at War written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
