History - Military - World War II
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Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the WorldA New York Times Editors' Choice "Riveting." --The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the...
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War IINEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The acclaimed author of A Higher Call and Devotion presents the "engrossing" (CNN) true story of an American tank gunner's journey into the heart of the Third Reich during World War II, where he will meet destiny in an...
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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II"Lively and entertaining . . . Those fearlessly determined female pilots are the professional forebears of the women who would slowly break down barriers in the U.S. military in the decades that followed . . . And what forebears those women were." -The Washington...
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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II"Lively and entertaining . . . Those fearlessly determined female pilots are the professional forebears of the women who would slowly break down barriers in the U.S. military in the decades that followed . . . And what forebears those women were." -The Washington...
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State of War: A History of World War II in FloridaA deeply researched history of Florida's strategic and military roles in World War IIThe first book to share the entire history of Florida's involvement in World War II, State of War explores how the war transformed the state into a major hub of military...
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Stealing Hitler's Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V-2 Rocket Out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain'As vivid and enthralling as the story deserves... recounted with a quiet restraint that makes it all the more devastating' The Telegraph Adolf Hitler's plan to break British morale during the months after the D-Day landings in June 1944 involved the invention and implementation...
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Strange DefeatA renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In...
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Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945Author Mochitsura Hashimoto was one of the few Japanese submarine captains to survive. Shortly before the end of WW2 he inflicted the greatest single loss on the U.S. Navy in its history, when he torpedoed and sank the USS Indianapolis -- soon after it...
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TailspinWorld War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe.When Gene...
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TailspinWorld War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe.When Gene...
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Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle That Turned the Tide of World War IIFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a fast-paced, dramatic account of the famous yet little-understood battle that turned the tide of World War II. 1942. Everywhere around the world, the Allies are losing the war....
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War IINovember 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes--only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous jungle....
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic BombFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets...
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The Battle of Hengyang: Japan's Fateful Siege in World War IIThe first English language history of China's Most Important Battle in World War IIIn April 1944, Imperial Japan launched Operation Ichigo to secure a transport route linking Japanese forces in northern China and Southeast Asia, while eliminating American airfields in the region. The Japanese...
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The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific WarA thrilling and in-depth look at the battle for Manila, the third-bloodiest battle of World War II and the culmination point of the war in the Pacific theater. In 1945 the United States and Japan fought the largest and most devastating land battle of...
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day SacrificeJune 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia -- population just 3,000 in 1944 -- died in the first bloody minutes of D-DayThey were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to...
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World WarDive into this "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories...
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World WarDive into this "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories...
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The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and BrotherhoodAn epic story of the triumph of good over evil. The soldiers of D Company could not believe their eyes as they came face-to-face with the human cost of Hitler's evil: two teenage boys--survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald--who had escaped. The Boys in the...
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The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood"This beautifully braided story...reveals the best and worst of humanity. A magnificent work of narrative nonfiction, true to the past and essential for the present."--Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours An epic true story of the...
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