"A nonfiction companion to Magic tree house super edition #1: World at war, 1944."
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 ...
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.
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.
Published to commemorate the 70th anniversary of World War II, this completely new account of one of the deadliest conflicts in history opens with the buildup of hostility leading up to the war and concludes with the war's impact on modern ...
The World in 1937 -- Japan and China, 1937-1940 -- Hitler's Border Wars, 1938-1939 -- Germany Re-fights World War I, 1939 fights World War I,1939-1940 -- Wars of Ideology, 1941-1942 -- The Red Army versus the Wehrmacht, 1942-1944 -- Japan's ...
World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945.
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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...
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 ...
Gerhard Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of the World War II (rev. edn, Cambridge, 2005). BRITISH E MPIRE David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War (Oxford, 2011).