From bestselling author Baker comes a highly researched and surprising new book about the decades preceding World War II. "Human Smoke" is a superbly assembled narrative that encompasses ...
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"This is an interesting, informative, and important work. Overall, the quality of the essays is very high, and the focus of the book is on a topic of great importance." Stephen Nathanson,...
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"In many ways this book is superior to the Robinson Crusoe we read as children. Tweed was confronted by greater dangers and greater difficulties. And his ingenuity was also greater: E...
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As an Emmy-winning adaptation of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's bestseller Crusade in Europe, the series World War II: When the World Went to War explores some of the pivotal events which...
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In a book that discusses the final months of World War II's Pacific Theater, the author discusses the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis , Japanese ka...
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Chronicles the daring mission of the elite U.S. Army Sixth Ranger Battalion to slip behind enemy lines in the Phillipines and rescue the 513 American and British POWs who had spent over t...
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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" exposes the dark, irrev...
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The 82nd Airborne Division spent more time in combat than any other American airborne unit of World War II, and its fierce battlefield tenacity earned it the reputation of one of the fine...
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A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the la...
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Buy World War II [With Clip-Art CD] by Simon Adams in Hardcover for the low price of 15.29. Find this product in Juvenile Nonfiction > History - Military & Wars.
Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demon...
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World War II: The Unseen Visual History draws on a unique and rich trove of historical images and artifacts of World War II, collected in Caen, France, one of the cities devastated by tha...
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Following Churchill's directive to set occupied Europe ablaze, the SOE and later its American sister organization, the OSS, were deployed across the continent. Outnumbered, surrounded and...
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World War II Secret Operations Handbook lets you in on the skills and tricks used by the British S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive), the US O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services), the F...
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During World War II, the Los Angeles region underwent rapid industrial growth as Kaiser Steel opened a giant mill in Fontana, and the aircraft giants--North American Aviation, Lockheed, D...
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Buy Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls by Samuel Eliot Morison in Paperback for the low price of 17.90. Find this product in History > Military - World War II.
The Transylvanian Questionthe struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvaniaseems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War....
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The incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and evade enemy capture in WWII 160; On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine ...
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Buy Best Friends Forever by Beverly Patt in Hardcover for the low price of 13.29. Find this product in Juvenile Fiction > Historical - United States - 20th Century.
Presents interviews, photographs, letters, oral histories, stories, eyewitness accounts, and excerpts from historical writings from different perspectives on a wide variety of topics rela...
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The author of the best-selling Citizens of London traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry in World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolation f...
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What effect did personality and circumstance have on US foreign policy during World War II? This incisive account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries - Japan, Germany...
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The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II relates the events of this crucial period in U.S. history through a chronology, an introductory essay, ov...
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Bestselling author Herman reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen--automobile magnate William Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser--inspired business leaders across the coun...
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The inner ring of Japanese defense in the Pacific lay across 5 island groups: the Gilbert, Marshall, Marianas, Caroline, and Palau islands. In this program we follow the operations of the...
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"Examines World War II in the Pacific, including the causes of the war between Japan and the United States, the important battles and leaders, life for soldiers and life on the homefront,...
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From April 28 to May 2, 1945, Fascism lost it death grip on the people as the Allies marched into Germany and Italy and the world learned just how grim things had gotten in Europe. Best s...
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An enlightening elucidation of Japanese brutality in World War II, thisbook is an honest look at an unexplored facet of the inhumane war crimesof this era.
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