Spotlights the important events and people of World War II.
This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative.
Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive.
Fast-paced and up close, this is history’s greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can.”—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The ...
From the Back Cover: From the moment of its publication in 1961, A.J.P. Taylor's seminal work caused a storm of praise and controversy, and it has since been recognized as a classic: the first book ever to examine exclusively and in depth ...
Spotlights the important events and people of World War I.
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Phil Larimore made the world a better place, and his son Walt has made World War II literature better as well with his labor of love, At First Light.” —Col. French L. MacLean, U.S. Army (Ret.) and author of Custer's Best and The Fifth ...
Beginning in the pre-dawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows ten men attempting to carry out D-Day's most critical missions.
"This tank of yours," I said to Haines. "What's its name?" At the beginning, almost all of them gave their tanks names. I wanted to find out if the soldier who went through the war with a tank had any affection for it, ...
Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a ...