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Engineers of Victory: The Making of the War Machine That Defeated the Nazis
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Include books by the same authorYeager: An Autobiography
Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos · 388 pages
Offers a personal glimpse of air pilot General Chuck Yeager. Yeager talks about his life and achievements, expressed in his own words.
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
George Wilson · 288 pages
first hand account of platoon leader with 4th infantry division from normandy to the siegfried line during last 9 months of the war. describes almost continuous combat from the infantryman's perspective. considered one of the best of its type. prose is unusually excellent for the genre. no false heroics. extremely realistic, holding back no details of the gore and misery of combat.
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
R.V. Burgin, William Marvel, Bill Marvel
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb · 400 pages
xix, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of facsimilies : 24 cm
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949
Siegfried Knappe, Ted Brusaw · 384 pages
An uncommonly reflective and illuminating memoir by a German officer who served on virtually all fronts in Europe, Soldat offers a unique inside look at the German side of World War II and a world in ruins. As military history, Soldat is a rich vein of valuable ore, thanks to Siegfried Knappe's eyewitness participation in so many crucial and significant campaigns of the war--including the despera
All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Donald Stratton, Ken Gire · 320 pages
A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles. The most gripping, intimate, and inspiring account of Pearl Harbor, the first memoir ever published by a USS Arizona survivor
Samurai!
Saburo Sakai · 382 pages
Saburo Sakai was Japan's greatest fighter pilot to survive World War II. A veteran of more than two hundred dogfights, Sakai reportedly shot down sixty-four Allied planes, but he is best known for flying his crippled Zero nearly 600 miles to safety while partially paralyzed and nearly blind from multiple wounds.
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin · 352 pages
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain
Len Deighton · 272 pages
Novelist Len Deighton has written a military buff's delight: a meticulous history of the men and machines of the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force in their struggle over Britain in the summer of 1940. Deighton describes the Battle in the stark, no-nonsense terms of a chess player recounting a game; the reader will not feel what it was like to be a Spitfire or Messerschmitt pilot, but he will know
Battle: The Story of the Bulge
John Willard Toland · 400 pages
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee · 528 pages
A galvanizing narrative of the wartime role played by U.S. Army nurses--from the invasion of North Africa to the bloody Italian campaign to the decisive battles in France and the Rhineland. More than 59,000 nurses volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps alone: 217 lost their lives (16 by enemy action), and more than 1,600 were decorated for meritorious service and bravery under fire. But
Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Edgar Harrell, David Harrell · 189 pages
"A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis"--
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
David M. Crook, Richard Overy · 191 pages
Tobruk
Peter FitzSimons · 664 pages
In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcement and supplies within eight weeks... Eight months later, these heroic, gallant, determined 'Rats of Tobruk' were rescued by the British Navy having held the fort against the might of Rommel's never-before-defeated Afrika Corps. Like Gallipoli and Kokoda, the S
Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest i n Europe
Jonathan W. Jordan · 654 pages
Examines the relationship between American World War II generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley, and looks at how they were able to work together to defeat Germany.
Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot
Brian Lane · 255 pages
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
David Kahn · 336 pages
The Nazi Hunters
Damien Lewis · 425 pages
The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid into occupied France in 1944, which ended in the capture, torture and execution of 31 soldiers.
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
Don Malarkey, Bob Welch · 282 pages
Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. Drafted in 1942, Malarkey became one of the one-in-six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the ground
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Gregory Boyington · 384 pages
The author's experiences in the United States Air Force during the 1939-1945 War.
Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy
Donald R. Burgett · 193 pages