Second World War Books

The first unofficial biography of Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970). Nobody had more influence on Anglophone military thought over the last 100 years. He was born in the reign of Victoria, came of age in the year before the Great War, and wrote doctrine...

There are several important studies on Allied efforts to re-educate German civilians after the fall of Nazism. The simultaneous major program of the U. S., Britain and Soviet Union to influence the future of German politics and society through the...

This book summarizes the actions the United States did as a neutral force during the first world war. It will begin with the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s and the Atlantic Chapter. Read about how these acts resound what majority of Americans wanted at the...

Did you know that dictators in Europe ignited the flame that led to the World War II? This book discuses the topic on fascism, detailing more facts other than its basic description. It also follows the rise to power of dictators, who later on caused the...

Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid...

In early July 1942, Colonel George Hill, the representative of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Moscow, informed Major Harold Seddon, the Head of SOE's Russian Section in London, that the NKVD, the Soviet Ministry of the Interior, had two...

The conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire. It...

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially 'crimes' pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and...

This book is an exacting reproduction of the 1945 original book. It contains 65 plus pages of information and photographs related to the campaigns untaken during the Second World War. There may be slight typographical errors including crooked or...

This book is an exacting reproduction of the 1945 original book on the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. There may be slight typographical errors including crooked or off-center pages because they are present in the original book. Please...

These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Reuben Kandler was a prisoner of the Japanese for three and a half years after the fall of Singapore during the second World War during which time he worked on the Burma Railway and witnessed the suffering and death of many of his comrades. He had rarely...

When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers...

Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power...

At 8:15 A.M., August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay released her load. For forty­ three seconds, the world's first atomic bomb plunged through six miles of clear air to its preset detonation altitude. There it exploded, destroying...

""A Serious Fall In The Value Of Gold Ascertained, And Its Social Effects Set Forth"" is a book written by William Stanley Jevons in 1863. The book examines the economic impact of a significant drop in the value of gold, which was a major currency at the...

""A Secret Agent In Port Arthur"" is a book written by William Oliver Greener and published in 1905. The book is a first-hand account of the author's experiences as a secret agent during the Russo-Japanese War. It is set in Port Arthur, a city in...

A Russo-Japanese War Poem (1905) is a book written by Jane H. Oakley. It is a collection of poems that were inspired by the Russo-Japanese War, which took place between 1904 and 1905. The book contains a total of 31 poems that reflect on the war and its...

Think you know all there is to know about World War 2? Well, think again. 1000 World War 2 Facts contains all the fascinating trivia you could ever wish to know about the theatres of war, the Axis, the Allies, weapons, battles, atrocities, the Nazis,...

"People interested in World War II Pacific will enjoy the author's direct and easily understood style." – Reviewer A vital stepping stone in America's war against the Empire of Japan Naval bombardment of the island began on June 14. By...

At the end of World War II and through the Allied occupation, the Allies deliberated whether to abolish or to preserve the Japanese Emperor system. This is a study of the transformation of Japan under the impact of the democratizing policy of a forceful...

Histoire De La Guerre De 1870-1871 Partie 2: L'Invasion, Les D�����sastres, La Commune (1871) est un livre �����crit par Alfred de Lagueronnire. Ce livre traite de la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870-1871, qui a vu la France ������tre envahie par les...

""Dell'Istoria delle Guerre Civili di Francia V6"" ����� un libro scritto da Arrico Caterino Davila nel 1807. Questo volume fa parte di una serie di sei libri che raccontano le guerre civili in Francia dal 1559 al 1598. In particolare, questo sesto...

""Indledning Til Norges Statsdannelse I 1814"" er en bok skrevet av Aage Skavlan og utgitt i 1884. Boken gir en grundig innf������ring i Norges historie og statsdannelse i 1814, da Norge ble tvunget inn i en union med Sverige etter ������ ha v�����rt i...

Il Portafoglio Militare Italiano: Studi E Documenti Non Italiani Sui Teatri Di Guerra D'Italia E Delle Provincie Finittime (1866) ����� un libro pubblicato dall'editore Italia Publisher. Il libro contiene una raccolta di studi e documenti non italiani...

""Erster Zusammensto����� Polens mit Deutschland: Seine Bedeutung und seine Folgen"" ist ein Buch von Karl Merwart, das im Jahr 1874 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschreibt den ersten Konflikt zwischen Polen und Deutschland, der im Jahr 1000...

Az Erd�����ly T������rt�����nete, 1848-1849 (1861) c������m����� k������nyv Kov�����ri L�����szl������ toll�����b������l sz�����letett. A k������tet egy �����tfog������ t������rt�����nelmi �����ttekint�����st ny������jt Erd�����ly esem�����nyeir�����l a...

""Epochen und Katastrophen"" ist ein Buch von Adolf Schmidt, das im Jahr 1874 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine historische Abhandlung, die sich mit verschiedenen Epochen und Katastrophen in der Geschichte der Menschheit auseinandersetzt...

El libro ""El Contrabando De Guerra"" escrito por Pasquale Fiore en 1896 es una obra hist������rica que aborda el tema del contrabando de armas durante la Guerra de la Independencia italiana en el siglo XIX. El autor narra detalladamente los sucesos y...

Das Buch ""Eisenbahnreform (1888)"" von Eduard Engel besch�����ftigt sich mit der Eisenbahnreform im Deutschland des sp�����ten 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Autor analysiert die politischen, wirtschaftlichen und technischen Herausforderungen, die mit der...

Das Buch ""Eisenbahn-Konkurrenz und Eisenbahn-Fusionen in England (1875)"" von Charles Franquet de Franqueville besch�����ftigt sich mit der Eisenbahnindustrie in England im 19. Jahrhundert. Der Autor beschreibt die Konkurrenz zwischen verschiedenen...

Das Buch ""Einfluss der Goldw�����hrung: Auf das Einkommen der Bev������lkerungsklassen und des Staates"" von Markus Ettinger aus dem Jahr 1892 untersucht die Auswirkungen der Einf�����hrung einer Goldw�����hrung auf die Einkommensverteilung in der...

Eine Studie �����ber Das Kriegsspiel (1874) ist ein Buch von Hauptmann Edmund Edler Von Mayer. Das Buch ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber das Kriegsspiel und dessen Einsatz in der milit�����rischen Ausbildung. Mayer untersucht die verschiedenen Aspekte...