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World War II From Above

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:09 +0000

In World War II From Above, historian Jeremy Harwood profiles the fascinating story, unknown to many, of the battle waged by Allies and Axis spies in the skies to obtain accurate aerial intelligence during World War II. This book features dozens of eye-catching aerial reconnaissance photographs drawn from the archives compiled by all the major fighting powers. Hardwood’s accompanying text profiles the daring pilots who risked death to shoot these photographs and the photographic interpreters who pioneered a totally new science to reveal the secrets they contained. Inspiring, informative, and entertaining special features focus on particularly crucial operations from both the Allies and Axis perspectives – from the American Doolittle Raid against Japan to the numerous battles against Germany’s cutting-edge U-boats to the Battle of Monte Cassino and a score of other epic campaigns. Told through photographs that have largely never before appeared in print, outside of their reconnaissance origins, World War II From Above combines history with photography, placing the reader in the midst of the action like few books ever have.

World War II

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:08 +0000

4,139 entries covering the battles, backgrounds and players in the Allied and Axis powers. A cornucopia of unusual information to intrigue any World War II buff and a unique approach to learning history. 672 pages.

World War II at Sea

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:08 +0000

Discover how the vital war at sea was fought, from the first battle to the last.As soon as World War II broke out in September 1939, the conflict at sea began and was fought with fury until the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan nearly six years later. World War II at Sea highlights the key moments in this fascinating, pivotal, and absorbing story.From the sinking of the British passenger liner Athenia to Operation Ten-Go, decisive battles and engagements are fully explored?”clashes such as Cape Mataplan, aptly regarded as a Mediterranean Trafalgar, in which the British navy scored one of the greatest and most one-sided victories in its history against the Italian battlefleet. Discover how, starting with Midway and continuing at Guadalcanal, the US Pacific Fleet fought the Imperial Japanese Navy to a standstill in the early years of the war to establish naval supremacy throughout the Pacific.Some of the lesser-known aspects of the conflict, such as the battle against the magnetic mine and the exploits of the German surface raider Pinguin, aren’t ignored. Unusual and secret weapons like maiale, X-craft, kaiten, asdic, sonar and radar, and much, much more are discussed.Fully illustrated throughout with a fascinating mixture of historic photographs, maps, charts, and specially-devised diagrams, World War II at Sea is s compelling read and an essential reference for every history enthusiast.

War in Italy, 1943-1945

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:07 +0000

War in Italy presents the first full scale account of the conflict in Italy, from the Allied landing in Sicily to the end of the war. Drawing on recently released British and Italian archives, Lamb delivers the full story of Italy’s role in World War II, from Mussolini’s fall to the Germans’ race to occupy the peninsula.

War Since 1945

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:07 +0000

A concise and clear account of conflicts since 1945 written by a professional soldier. The book covers the six British colonial conflicts, two French colonial conflicts, two American adventures, India’s conflicts and Arab-Israeli.

Winston Churchill

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:07 +0000

When today’s world leaders need inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often turn to Winston Churchill, quoting him and citing his heroic example. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a soldier early in life. But after he escaped from a South African prison camp, his national fame catapulted him into a life of politics. In this Penguin Life, the eminent historian John Keegan charts Churchill’s career, following his steadfast leadership during the catastrophic events of World War II while England was dangerously poised on the brink of collapse. With wonderful eloquence, Keegan illuminates Churchill’s incredible strength during this crucial moment in history and his unshakable belief that democracy would always prevail. Keegan looks at Churchill’s speeches, which are some of the greatest examples of English oratory, and identifies his ability to communicate his own idea of an English past as the source of Churchill’s greatness. He also sheds light on the political climate of Churchill’s time. The result is an insightful, sensitive portrait of Churchill the war leader and Churchill the man.

The Path Between The Seas

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:06 +0000

The National Book Award’s winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.

U.S. Army in World War II The Fall of the Philippines

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:06 +0000

50th anniversary commemorative edition, published by the National Historical Society, The War in the Pacific.

The March of Folly

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:05 +0000

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for animating the people, places, and events of history is on spectacular display.

The Last Lion, Visions of Glory

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:29:04 +0000

The first volume in William Manchester’s masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill’s life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill’s life–the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century.In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the re-militarization of Germany. Born of an American mother and the gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi’s quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain.Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930’s began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism–an evil the world had never before seen.