Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 232 p. In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies’ favor, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later the advances made by British-led forces enabled the re-opening of the supply routes from...
Harper Collins Canada, 2015. — 228 p. This is the story of the Canadian First Army that fought its way from Juno Beach at D-Day in June, 1944, through Normandy, into the Netherlands to liberate that country, to the terrible battles in the Scheldt area, and finally into Germany in 1945. This is also the story of how Canada, which had no army to speak of in 1939, raised a citizen...
Böhlau Verlag, 2010. — 389 p. Most writing about the role of women during the First World War tends to focus on generally deal with the wartime experiences of men and women separately. Began about replacing men in auxiliary roles with women, releasing them for The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Women's Royal Naval Service were The Women's Army Corps (WAC) in which almost...
Penguin Books, 2004. — 224 p. No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain. In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book. Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2023. — 368 p. Target: Pearl Harbor takes a fresh look at the air raid that plunged America into World War II by scrutinizing the decisions and attitudes that prompted the attack and left the United States unprepared to mount a successful defense. The core of the book concerns the events of December 7, 1941, as seen through the eyes of participants,...
Independently Publishers, 2020. — 348 p. Discover the history of the 11th Airborne Division, the Angels, in World War II. Written by historian Jeremy C. Holm, this book covers the division's story from Camp Toccoa to Tokyo, including the bloody campaigns to liberate Leyte and Luzon with a focus on the legendary 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Utilizing firsthand experiences...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 224 p. The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realize, however, that these artfully constructed narratives of heroic resistance to aerial bombardment both conceal appalling massacres of their own citizens. In Britain, thousands of civilians were killed when the army...
Simon and Schuster, 2010. — 400 p. Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prize-winning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were...
Liveright, 2017. — 252 p. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot...
Il Mulino, 2023. — 470 p. La guerra, ultima fase del fascismo trionfante, ha agito su di noi più profondamente di quanto risulti a prima vista. La guerra ha distolto materialmente gli uomini dalle loro abitudini, li ha costretti a prendere atto con le mani e con gli occhi dei pericoli che minacciano i presupposti di ogni vita individuale, li ha persuasi che non c'è possibilità...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 537 p. A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the vital Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports,...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 720 p. World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the imagination, with more than 100 million casualties. The war resulted in an almost...
Big Sky Publishing, 2023. — 290 p. On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi Third Reich, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in savage reprisals, with Hitler ordering...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 316 p. Traces the development of the service and maintenance organization of the Army Air Forces during World War ll. Also provides a look at the dynamics of military bureaucracy. Introduction. Organizational and Tactical Background. Five Air Depot Groups in 1941. The Eighty Group Program, January–July 1942. Beginning of the Training Program....
University of Toronto Press, 2010. — 410 p. Based on a wide range of sources, The Politics of Command will redefine how military historians and all Canadians look not only at "Andy" McNaughton, but the Canadian Army as well. Early Life and the Crucible of the First World War. The Road to High Command. The Problem of deploying the Army.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 324 p. A penetrating study of why soldiers fight and what sustained Canadians in battle during the Second World War. Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour,...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 372 p. Monty and the Canadian Army details the lasting great military influence of famous General B. L. Montgomery, whose military competence and genius shaped the mobilized Canadian Army in the Second World War.
Charles River Editors, 2017. — 122 p. A swift, sudden attack from the ocean, putting soldiers ashore on a hostile coast at some point weakly defended by the enemy, has been a powerful tactical and strategic tool since the late Bronze Age. Utilized by the Sea Peoples against New Kingdom Egypt and the Greek city-states in their internecine wars, amphibious warfare combined high...
Shadow Mountain, 2019. — 208 р. This unique collection documents twelve fascinating and largely untold stories of minorities, women, and Native Americans who supported the Allied cause in World War II. Courageously serving as soldiers, spies, POWs, builders, medics, and movie stars, they fought for the cause of freedom and democracy against the combined threat of the Nazis and...
University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 248 p. In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crew members, supplied with "escape kits," knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning home. An estimated 12,000 French civilians helped make...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 320 p. On the eve of World War II, the British army was more an international police force than a true combat-ready fighting machine. Raymond Callahan chronicles its trial-by-fire transformation in a new and unflinching look at Great Britain's top commanders in the field. Callahan reexamines the much-maligned performance of the British army...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. — 400 p. Before 1939, Canada's shipbuilding industry had been moribund for nearly two decades - no steel-hulled, ocean-going vessel had been built since 1921. During the Second World War, however, Canada's shipbuilding program became a major part of the nation's industrial effort. Shipyards were expanded and more than a thousand warships...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. — 224 p. Towards the end of World War II Germany unleashed its weapons of vengeance on the British population - the V-1 flying bomb (a pilotless aircraft) and the V-2 rocket (the precursor of the ballistic missile). In V-Bombs and Weathermaps Brock McElheran remembers his own experience of being under attack by these frightening weapons...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. — 255 p. Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century, but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall, for instance, famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all, even when their lives were at stake.
Helion and Company, 2011. — 255 p. In the first of a two-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the Organisation, doctrine and equipment of US Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II. The second volume will provide capsule histories for all US Army infantry divisions during this period. After examining the state of the US Army...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 167 p. This work is a reexamination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised are, was the uprising necessary and why was it so poorly conducted by a totally indifferent...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 224 p. A comprehensive analysis of Hitler’s role as the supreme military leader of the Third Reich across all the major campaigns. There have been many books on Adolf Hitler and specific military campaigns and battles during the time of the Third Reich. However, there has never been a comprehensive analysis of Hitler’s role as the supreme...
Allen and Unwin, 2020. — 432 p. On July 21, 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua, soon turning into an all-out attempt to capture Port Morseby. This is the powerful story of the three weeks of battle by a small Australian militia force to keep the Japanese at bay. Outnumbered by at least three to one, they fought to...
Arcole Publishing, 2017. — 209 p. Originally published in 1944, the events with which this volume deals form an episode with a certain organic unity and completeness. They include the almost indescribable battle of Stalingrad and the Russian recoil; but they also take in the events in North Africa. They describe, therefore, the ebb and flow of the tide which threatened the...
The History Press, 2008. — 278 p. The explosive memoir of a 17 year old German boy called up to fight in the last weeks of the Second World War. This is a teenager's vivid account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate weeks of the Third Reich, during which he experienced training immediately behind the front line east of Berlin, was caught up in the...
Not Avail, 2014. — 552 p. From the author of the best-selling "The Bedford Boys," the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at the Battle of the Bulge during the decisive war's winter from 1944 to 1945 year.
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 300 p. In 1939, the Germans stormed into Poland, shocking the world with the speed, the destructiveness, the seeming invincibility of their blitzkrieg. By 1943, the tide had started to turn. Successes still came, but these were increasingly eclipsed by defeats and retreats, setbacks and surrenders. In Blitzkrieg No Longer, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.,...
The History Press, 2016. — 288 p. The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945 is illuminated by the remarkable personal story of John Harris. An architectural student, he was pitched into battle as a subaltern in the Royal Engineers and was a prisoner of the Japanese for four years. His powerful testimonial describes the appalling struggle to survive in a Japanese prison camp....
Sapere Books, 2021. — 245 p. A stirring account of one of the bravest and most effective units in the fight against Japan in World War Two. By 1942 Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma had all fallen to Japanese forces. On the Burmese-Indian border the Allies began their fight back, but to do so they needed to know...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 352 p. Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War IIOn the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet....
Sapere Books, 2021. — 295 p. A clear and compelling account of the brutal battle of Kohima that swung the balance of the Burma Campaign in World War Two. An ideal book for readers of Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor and Jonathan Dimbleby. For a fortnight in April 1944 Lieutenant-General Sato threw nearly the whole force of his division towards the Kohima Ridge. Against them stood a...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 221 p. On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their expected stay was considerably shorter than planned as the German Army Group A pushed its way...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 208 p. Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged a sixth and other awe-inspiring...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 512 p. Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — 262 p. Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day. It was then employed in the crossing of the River Seine and the assault on Le Havre, before fighting across Belgium and Holland culminating in the final assault on Arnhem in April 1945, by which time the brigade had served in four...
Winged Hussar Publishing, 2018. — 288 p. In September 1939, Nazi Germany initiated the second world war by invading Poland. William Russ has compiled a highly detailed study of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, examining, the actions of every group on a daily basis. This book explores the campaign down to the regimental level from the German perspective, listing...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 227 p. Using a combination of new perspectives and new evidence, this book presents a reinterpretation of how 21st Army Group produced a successful combined arms doctrine by late 1944 and implemented this in early 1945. Historians, professional military personnel and those interested in military history should read this book, which contributes to the...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 268 p. After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fight back and victory in Burma was achieved as a result of the exercise of unprecedented combined services cooperation and operations. Crucial to this was the Allies supremacy in the air coupled with their ground/air support...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. — 143 p. First of all, because it was so important to the Free French themselves, the reader should understand the difference between the Free French (France Libre) and the Army of Africa (l’Arme´e d’Afrique). The former includes only those units and individuals that pledged themselves specifically to Charles de Gaulle and began gathering...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 228 p. Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back across the mountains to the Japanese...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 224 p. Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of adventure. A soldier throughout the Second World War, he saw action across North Africa, was a driver for the Long Range Desert group and fought at the battle of Alamein. Taken into captivity at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, he was sentenced to...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2023. — 295 р. Martin Bowman’s considerable experience as a military historian has spanned over forty years, during which time he has spent hundreds of hours interviewing and corresponding with numerous men and women and their relatives, in Britain, America and beyond, resulting in a wealth of material on the war at sea from World War One to the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 248 p. The German part in the 19 August 1942 Dieppe raid has largely been ignored. Launched by Winston Churchill to appease his Soviet counterparts, Operation JUBILEE was one of the Allies’ greatest debacles of the war. The majority of the 6,100 soldiers and marines dispatched by Lord Louis Mountbatten were captured or killed. Just 2,211 of the...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 479 p. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing...
University of Missouri Press, 2023. — 489 p. This second of three volumes of Patton’s War picks up where the first one left off, examining General George S. Patton’s leadership of the U.S. Third Army. The book follows Patton’s contributions to both the Normandy and Brittany campaigns—the closing of the Falaise Pocket in Normandy, and racing to the port cities in Brittany. It...