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The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of World War II in Asia. When Yates McDaniel died in Florida in 1983, few outside his family paid much attention...

"Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were...

Imagine you're a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you've ever known behind - your family,...

Treason on the Airwaves traces the journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States. John Amery was a virulent anti-Semite and member of a highly respected British family...

The Rubber Soldiers were an army of 55,000 men from the Brazilian northeast, who were sent to the Amazon basin to harvest rubber for the Allied War effort under an agreement between Brazil and the US. Approximately 26,000 of these men died in the Amazon...

Inside this book - the first of its kind devoted solely to Nazi Germany - are quotations from 289 men and five women in the Third Reich. Also included are the "last words" for sixty-nine individuals facing execution for war crimes and crimes against...

From shipping strikes, to strafing runs on airfields, step back in time and into the violent days of World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based on Fifth Air Force photographer John Stava's collection, and undiscovered until the mid-1990s, captured here...

Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned with the SS flash, Heinrich Himmler's horsemen carried the SS banner across the German countryside and to equestrian competitions throughout Germany and Europe. They rode as the Equestrian SS, an SS cavalry force...

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183885Author Colin HeatonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

An edited volume of primary sources from the Second World War, The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook is the first of its kind to provide an ambitious and wide-ranging survey of the war in a convenient and comprehensive package. Conveying the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639015Author The Aviation HistorianFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams)...

From birth, Nazi propaganda bombarded children with images romanticising war and a glorious death for the Fuehrer and Fatherland. Third Reich social planners emphasised physical activity over the intellect, all toward ensuring absolute loyalty to the...

1943 saw the Allies on the offensive, with victories in North Africa followed by the invasion of Sicily and landings in Italy establishing a foothold on mainland Europe, while on the Eastern Front the Red Army was making gains, and in the Pacific the...

The collapse of the French army in 1940 is a well-researched topic in Second World War Studies but a surprising gap in the historiography emerges when it comes to the study of the French military prior to the German offensive of May 1940.Using various...

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Aviation Chief Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though wounded, continued to man his machine gun against the waves of Japanese attacks around Pearl Harbor. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512621Author Charles E. Stanley, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery History

Detailed account of exteriors and interiors of the German defensive zone along the Normandy coast during the D-Day time period.Book InformationISBN 9780887407550Author EditorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer...

The amazing tenacity and cohesion of the German Army in Russia from 1941-1945, fighting against overwhelming odds but refusing to disintegrate, has fascinated readers for decades. But most of the available sources concentrate on the maneuvers of armies...

Photo history of one of the most elite fighting units in WWII by one of its former members. Includes listing of Knight's Cross Winners.Book InformationISBN 9780887402456Author Helmuth SpaeterFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Schiffer Publishing...

During World War II the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war in the West. But the ultimate victory of that partnership has obscured many of the conflicts behind Franklin Roosevelt's...

Despite the overwhelming contributions made by the Armenians to the Allied war effort, it is widely unknown that at least 18,000 served under the Third Reich. After the war, these so-called collaborators were chastised and indiscriminately labeled as...

Having photographically covered the British Aces of World War I in his book British and American Aces of World War I: The Pictorial Record, it followed that the RAF and Commonwealth aces of World War II should also be depicted in a single volume. This...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. If you truly want to understand what happened and why - read Battle Story...

The West at War, due to accompany a major 6-part series for ITV1 West of England, produced by Testimony Films and to be broadcast across May/June 2005, commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and features the stories of servicemen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684511914Author Philip HandlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery HistoryWeight(grams) 152g

Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660-1783) was one of the most influential books on military strategy in the first half of the 20th century. A core text in the naval war colleges of the United States, Britain, and Japan,...

The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After almost two years slogging with infantrymen through North Africa, Italy, and...

When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in early 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipinos and many Americans were left to defend Bataan, Manila, and surrounding islands. During the three violent years of occupation that...

Birmingham's War: Voices of the Second World War is a collection of 100 accounts by local young men and women who served in the armed forces during the Second World War. They have been collected by Eric Armstrong, a fellow serviceman from Birmingham, who...

This thought-provoking book examines the Nazi German plans to raid and bomb New York and the eastern seabord in the event of a successful invasion of the Soviet Union. The plans rested upon the use of transoceanic aircraft, such as the six-engined Ju...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512487Author Csaba B StengeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385348737Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

When three Yale graduates traveled to China in the summer of 1941 to teach English to middle-school students, they routinely taught classes outside a bomb shelter. When air raid sirens wailed, classes continued until the Japanese planes could be heard,...

The U.S. Army glider corps was formed in the tumultuous period of rapid buildup of American military might prior to the nation's December 1941 entry into World War II. It then had to mature rapidly, under the persistent pressure of wartime conditions, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655817Author Bruce HendersonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were...

At the age of twelve, American William R. Dunn decided to become a fighter pilot. In 1939 he joined the Canadian Army and was soon transferred to the Royal Air Force. He was the first pilot in the famous Eagle Squadron of American volunteers to shoot...

Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance is the personal account of Freya von Moltke, a member of the Kreisau Circle, a German resistance group that participated in the attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. Freya's husband, Helmuth von...

This book is the first to present every rocket aircraft flown in Germany and the rocket systems developed by Walter and BMW, as well as several of the most interesting projects drawn up by Germany's aviation industry. In 1940 the Deutsche...