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The Grand Allianceby Winston Churchill
RosettaBooks 2003; US$ 7.99The Grand Alliance describes the end of an extraordinary period in British military history in which that country stood virtually alone against the German onslaught. Two crucial events bring about the end of Britainīs isolation and prove to be key turning points in the war against Hitler. The first is Hitlerīs well-documented decision to attack the Soviet Union, opening up a battle front in the East. The second event is the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into the war. more...
The Hinge of Fateby Winston Churchill
RosettaBooks 2003; US$ 7.99The fourth volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Civilization itself seems at stake in these early months of American intervention and the fall of France. Churchill, wartime Prime Minister through this period, incorporates contemporary documentation and his own reminiscences. more...
Band of Brothersby Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 11.99They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak -- in Holland and the Ardennes -- Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Divison, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach;... more...
Hellcatsby Peter Sasgen
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99Sasgen vividly recounts the pulsating drama of the Hellcats." - Naval History In 1945, American sub force commanders believed that if the Japanese merchant fleet was sunk, the enemy would be forced to surrender. The problem: the ships were protected in the Sea of Japan by a barrier of deadly minefields. Here, Peter Sasgen tells the gripping story of Operation Barney, a daunting mission in which nine submarines, nicknamed Hellcats, were tasked with getting through the mines and decimating the enemy fleet. Drawing on original documents and the personal letters of one doomed Hellcat commander, Sasgen crafts a classic naval tale of the heroic submariners and one of World War II's most ambitious and dangerous underwater raids. " more...
Moscow 1941by Rodric Braithwaite
Profile 2010; US$ 15.98Based on huge research and scores of interviews, this book offers an unforgettable and richly illustrated narrative of the military action that took place in Moscow during 1941; telling portraits of Stalin and his generals, some apparatchiks, some great commanders. It also traces the stories of individuals, soldiers, politicians and intellectuals, writers and artists and dancers, workers, schoolchildren and peasants. Click here to visit the author's website. more...
Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killersby Christopher R. Browning
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 21.00This volume uses new evidence to shed light on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. more...
Infernoby Max Hastings
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots... more...
Tuskegee Airmenby Barry M. Stentiford
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 35.00This poignant history of the Tuskegee Airmen separates myth and legend from fact, placing them within the context of the growth of American airpower and the early stirrings of the African American Civil Rights Movement. more...
Hiroshima Diaryby Michihiko Hachiya
The University of North Carolina Press 1955; US$ 23.95While to many Americans the bombings may seem to date from a bygone era, the scientific knowledge obtained from these experiences is more relevant than ever before. It is likely the best evidence that will ever be gathered on the short- and long-term effects of nuclear exposure on a large population. In Japan, the dropping of the atomic bombs engendered a series of national medical studies copiously documented and analyzed by American and Japanese physicians and scientists more...
Origins of the Second World War 1933-1939by Ruth Henig
Routledge 1985; US$ 22.95In this title, Ruth Henig analyzes the reasons as to why World War Two broke out, a very controversail historic topic. She considers the long-term factors that contributed to the war and a number of other key events that took place. more...