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Book The Voice of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guy Walters
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2005-05-05
  • ISBN : 0141938048
  • Pages : 587 pages

Download or read book The Voice of War written by Guy Walters and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who were there, from Russian women fighter pilots to the prisoners of the Japanese to Londoners enduring the Blitz. Their first-hand accounts place us on the ramparts of Colditz, in the hiding places of the Warsaw Ghetto, aboard a dive bomber at Pearl Harbor, with Rommel in the desert and by Churchill's side in Downing Street. Unrivalled in the immediacy, range and power of the experiences it contains, it includes writing by, among others, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Christabel Bielenberg, Noel Coward, Robert Capa, Airey Neave, George Patton, Hermione Ranfurly, Arthur Koestler, James Lees-Milne, Martha Gellhorn, Sophia Loren and Primo Levi. Ambitious, instructive and entertaining, this is the definitive portrait of a world at war.

Book The American Experience in World War II  The United States and the road to war in Europe

Download or read book The American Experience in World War II The United States and the road to war in Europe written by Walter L. Hixson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War Chronicles  From Flintlocks to Machine Guns

Download or read book The War Chronicles From Flintlocks to Machine Guns written by Joseph Cummins and published by Fair Winds. This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly Review of Military Literature

Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Montgomery Legend

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  • Author : R.W. Thompson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-11-21
  • ISBN : 1000458970
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book The Montgomery Legend written by R.W. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1967, examines the foundations and the substance of the Montgomery Legend. His appearance upon the scene in the Western Desert coincided with a change in warfare as ‘ironmongery replaced generalship’, as General Fuller observed, and with Montgomery’s victories came a British need for a Champion for all to see. The public needed a Hero as Britain’s time on the ropes ended, and it was also politically necessary, lest Britain be swamped by the power of its allies.

Book Professional Journal of the United States Army

Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Bulletin

Download or read book Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Military Review

Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Command of History

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  • Author : David Reynolds
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-09-19
  • ISBN : 0307824802
  • Pages : 1014 pages

Download or read book In Command of History written by David Reynolds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945, he courageously led his nation and the world away from appeasement, into war, and on to triumph over the Axis dictators. His classic six-volume account of those years, The Second World War, has shaped our perceptions of the conflict and secured Churchill’s place as its most important chronicler. Now, for the first time, a book explains how Churchill wrote this masterwork, and in the process enhances and often revises our understanding of one of history’s most complex, vivid, and eloquent leaders. In Command of History sheds new light on Churchill in his multiple, often overlapping roles as warrior, statesman, politician, and historian. Citing excerpts from the drafts and correspondence for Churchill’s magnum opus, David Reynolds opens our eyes to the myriad forces that shaped its final form. We see how Churchill’ s manuscripts were vetted by Whitehall to conceal secrets such as the breaking of the Enigma code by British spymasters at Bletchley Park, and how Churchill himself edited the volumes to avoid offending postwar statesmen such as Tito, Charles de Gaulle, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. We explore his confusions about the true story of the atomic bomb, learn of his second thoughts about Stalin, and watch him repackage himself as a consistent advocate of the D-Day landings. In Command of History is a major work that forces us to reconsider much received wisdom about World War II. It also peels back the covers from an unjustly neglected period of Churchill’s life, his “second wilderness” years, 1945—1951. During this time Churchill, now over seventy, wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into 10 Downing Street, and delivered some of the most vital oratory of his career, including his pivotal “iron curtain” speech. Exhaustively researched and dazzlingly written, this is a revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most profiled figures, a work by a historian in full command of his craft. “A fascinating account that accomplishes the impossible: [Reynolds] actually finds something new and interesting to say about one of the most chronicled characters of all time.” –The New York Times Book Review A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A BEST HISTORY OF THE YEAR SELECTION –The New York Sun NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

Book I Am Still Standing

Download or read book I Am Still Standing written by Constantin Zotis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About "Say It Like It Is." Over the course of the past fifty years, "Political Correctness" has morphed from a social nicety to a national enforcement of stupidity. Due to political correctness, common sense has become less important in our society than the need to be hypersensitive to each and every group of minorities within our borders. Liberals have worked slowly but steadily to promote and further the asinine concept of political correctness and have been successful in implementing it. We are so sensitive these days that the mere mention of a nationality or a particular behavior has people gasping and whispering words like bigot, hateful and intolerant. As a society, we've forgotten how to speak to one another in a truthful and direct manner. As a result, we have countless "Interpretational breakdowns" or "Misunderstandings" on a personal, professional and political basis every day. These "Misunderstandings," as Liberals call them, are the result of our inability to actually convey our thoughts and intentions in a direct and non-politically correct manner. Sensitivity to the most mundane and insignificant aspects of life has turned Americans into a weak and litigious people who are neither respected nor respectable. Few people in our country actually have the inner fortitude to ignore the Liberals rules regarding speech and "Appropriate topics," and actually, "Say it like it is." I hope to point out how accustomed we've become to political correctness and how completely asinine the whole thing really is. Political correctness is the best example of what happens when Liberals work to gradually normalize and institute a concept that has had nothing but detrimental affects on our country. Where has political correctness led us? It's no longer acceptable to call the Chinese, Chinese. We can't refer to a Black man as a Black man. The word criminal should no longer be used to describe an individual who breaks the law. Pride in America is far less PC than an animosity toward it. No blame can be put on those who choose to act in an unacceptable manner. We've been trained to think of wealthy people as bad individuals and poor people as victims. Armed conflict is no longer seen as the protection of our way of life as much as it is seen as an attempt on the part of our evil leaders to conquer and occupy foreign lands. Political correctness teaches us "Tolerance" and "Diversity," and we can see where that has led us. The teaching of manners a

Book Azad Hind

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  • Author : Subhas Chandra Bose
  • Publisher : Anthem Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 1843310821
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Azad Hind written by Subhas Chandra Bose and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Netaji Bose's collected works covers perhaps the most difficult, daring and controversial phase in the life of India's foremost anti-colonial revolutionary. His writings and broadcasts of this period cover a broad range of topics, including: the nature and course of World War Two; the need to distinguish between India's internal and external policy in the context of the international war crisis; plans for a final armed assault against British rule in India; dismay at, and criticism of, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union; the hypocrisy of Anglo-American notions of freedom and democracy; the role of Japan in East and South East Asia; the reasons for rejecting the Cripps offer of 1942; support for Mahatma Gandhi and the Quit India movement later that year and reflections on the future problems of reconstruction in free India.

Book An Iron Wind

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  • Author : Peter Fritzsche
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2016-10-25
  • ISBN : 0465096557
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book An Iron Wind written by Peter Fritzsche and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to understand the terrifying chaos of war In An Iron Wind, prize-winning historian Peter Fritzsche draws diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe tried to make sense of World War II. As the Third Reich targeted Europe's Jews for deportation and death, confusion and mistrust reigned. What were Hitler's aims? Did Germany's rapid early victories mark the start of an enduring new era? Was collaboration or resistance the wisest response to occupation? How far should solidarity and empathy extend? And where was God? People desperately tried to understand the horrors around them, but the stories they told themselves often justified a selfish indifference to their neighbors' fates. Piecing together the broken words of the war's witnesses and victims, Fritzsche offers a haunting picture of the most violent conflict in modern history.

Book Review of Current Military Literature

Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A6M Zero sen Aces 1940 42

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  • Author : Nicholas Millman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-04-18
  • ISBN : 1472821459
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book A6M Zero sen Aces 1940 42 written by Nicholas Millman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen was Japan's Spitfire. In continuous development and operational service from the time of the Sino-Japanese war in 1940 to the end of the Pacific War in 1945, it is held in almost mythical awe, similar to Britain's legendary fighter aircraft. At the time of its operational debut the fighter's design features offered the revolutionary combination of an all-round vision canopy, cannon armament and a jettisonable drop tank giving it phenomenal range. Together with the flying and tactical proficiency of superbly trained pilots, this made the Zero-sen a true strategic fighter, spearheading Japan's offensive in the Pacific. It was also the mount of a plethora of successful and flamboyant naval aces engaged in both sea and land campaigns. This volume covers the use of the A6M2 variant from its debut in China to the Solomons Campaign, and also tells the story of the A6M2 fighter aces of the 4th and Tainan Kokutai.

Book Stalingrad

    Book Details:
  • Author : David M. Glantz
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2019-07-13
  • ISBN : 0700628797
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book Stalingrad written by David M. Glantz and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five volume Stalingrad Trilogy. Stalingrad offers a sweeping synthesis of this massive confrontation, how it impacted the war, and why it matters today.

Book The American Military Tradition

Download or read book The American Military Tradition written by John M. Carroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of war over the past three centuries. In this completely revised second edition, new essays explore Napoleonic warfare, the American Civil War, the Plains Wars in the West, the War against Japan, the nuclear arms race, and the War on Terror. The book, while not avoiding the nature of battle, goes beyond tactics and strategy to include the enormous social and political impact of America's wars.

Book Invasion Rabaul

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Gamble
  • Publisher : Zenith Press
  • Release : 2014-03-15
  • ISBN : 162788131X
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Invasion Rabaul written by Bruce Gamble and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover as Darkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the tiny Australian garrison sent to defend this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the darkest hour of the war. Lark Force, comprising 1,500 soldiers and six nurses, faced a vastly superior Japanese amphibious unit poised to overrun Rabaul, capital of Australia’s mandated territories. Invasion Rabaul, the first book in military historian Bruce Gamble’s critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, is a gut-wrenching account of courage and sacrifice, folly and disaster, as seen through the eyes of the defenders who survived the Japanese assault. Gamble’s gripping narrative follows key individuals—soldiers and junior officers, an American citizen and an Army nurse among them—who were driven into the jungle, prey to the unforgiving environment and a cruel enemy that massacred its prisoners. The dramatic stories of the Lark Force survivors, told here in full for the first time, are among the most inspiring of the Pacific War—and they lay a triumphant foundation for one of today’s most highly praised military nonfiction trilogies.