Provides a concise history of World War II including information about the Holocaust, the code-breaking Enigma, and the deadly V2 rocket.
This comprehensive global history of World War II analyzes how the war directly and indirectly affected six continents and how it reshaped the entire world. By the author of The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany. 30,000 first printing.
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 ...
Full of accurate and easy-to-understand information (so you don’t have to speak military to comprehend), this book will help you explore a war that defined and shaped the world we live in today.
However , a series of amphibious and air attacks isolated it and laid the basis for MacArthur's brilliant bypassing ... Reflecting on Japan's mindless refusal to stop the war at this point , William J. Dunn , a reporter for CBS News ...
In Potsdam, amid the ruins of a vanquished Germany, the new American President, Harry Truman, matches wits and wills with the aging Winston Churchill (soon to be voted out of...
Fearlessly taking aim at the myths, mysteries, arcana, and boondoggles that remain virtually unknown even to military buffs, Dirty Little Secrets of World War II remembers the big one. Like...
Filled with facts and figures, information about unusual aspects of the war, and moving personal accounts, this remarkable volume will be indispensable to anyone who wishes to understand the World War II era and its continuing ...
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.
Unforgettable Stories From History's Greatest Conflict Stephen G. Hyslop ... Suddenly the trap door opened, and it was my father My family—my parents and little sister—had moved into the nearby bunker, or bomb shelter.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.