History - Military - World War II

The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day "Lambert landed on [Omaha Beach] as a 23-year-old Army medic. ... As the bullets cut down his comrades, he raced...

Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty...

The inspiring, action-packed tale of VF-15, the elite group of U.S. Navy "top gun" pilots that destroyed more enemy planes than any other Pacific War squadron. David McCampbell ended his tour of duty as the navy's "ace of aces," with thirty-four confirmed enemy planes...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The perfect gift for Father's Day, this is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo...

Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War", directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes."The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.Sam Hynes was eighteen...

Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men. Over the...

With riveting combat writing and masterful research, award-winning historian and #1 internationally bestselling author Damien Lewis delivers the remarkable true story of Britain's infamous Special Air Service (SAS) forces, their legendary commander, and the impossibly daring, historic mission to liberate Europe via the largest...

Foxhole is a deeply personal story of a young man's experience in World War II. George Mullins takes us on his journey as he travels from his isolated home in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia to the beach in Normandy as part of the...

The explosive, untold true story of the band of patriotic FBI agents who went undercover to hunt down U.S. traitors on foreign soil during World War II and later investigated war criminals in the lead-up to the famous Nuremberg trials--a riveting real-life spy thriller...

Driven by extensive Japanese primary sources, Gamble in the Coral Sea offers an operational analysis of the first clash of aircraft carriers at the pivotal Battle of the Coral Sea from the Japanese perspective, including leadership, tactics, and errors that brought a numeric victory...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The greatest World War II story never told" (Esquire)--an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March--from the author of Blood and Thunder. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERONFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Her Name and Titanic, this stunning hardcover edition includes sprayed edges, printed end sheets, and interior illustrations, and arrives on the eightieth anniversary...

"Absorbing history of an unlikely alliance." - Kirkus ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Ghosts of Honolulu comes their most harrowing true story yet.It's 1942, and New York City is at war. German U-boats are sinking ships just miles offshore, and Washington,...

Here are stunning long-buried stories that give proof to the words Admiral Chester Nimitz used to describe the hero Marines on Iwo Jima: "Uncommon valor was a common virtue." Painstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts about American heroism and breathtaking courage during...

Reprint of the classic World War II memoirGerman General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer's autobiography is a fascinating insight into the mind of one of Germany's most highly decorated and successful soldiers of World War II. If you love small-unit actions, this is the book for...

Greyhounds of the Pacific is a comprehensive historical overview of American destroyer operations in the Pacific during World War II. While destroyers initially served in convoy protection roles in the Atlantic, their function in the Pacific shifted as they became independent forces that played...

"Drawing from previously unknown and unused sources, Holland paints a vivid picture of the desperate fights that broke the back of the Japanese forces ashore during that pivotal period of 1942. Holland's ground-breaking account is vital to the understanding of the struggle to secure...

From unstoppable blitzkrieg to brutal defeat--follow Guderian's panzers as they race toward Moscow and collide with disaster. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the surprise invasion of the Soviet Union that opened the Eastern Front in World War II. With lightning...

The compelling WWII correspondence and artifacts of Major Dick Winters, commander of the Band of Brothers. Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne gained international acclaim when the tale of he and his men were depicted in the celebrated book and miniseries Band of...

"A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who--somehow--survived."--Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific Here is one of the most...