Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from...Daugiau...
Highlighted by the prisoner-of-war escapes that earned them the name The Houdini Club, here is the elite combat odyssey of World War IIs Darbys Rangers as never told beforedrawing on previously unknown sources and retired Army Ranger Mir Ba...Daugiau...
The Tokyo Sixteen tells the gripping story of the sixteen pilots who took part in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942. The book follows their personal journeys, from their diverse backgrounds and motivations for joining the military to their da...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682473344)
This captivating book offers a rare first-hand account of the battles of Surigao Strait and other engagements in the Pacific from the point of view of an officer on the destroyer Bennion-- In Destroyers at War Adm. James L. Holloway...Daugiau...
Gavin at War provides a lively self-portrait. His diary is especially notable for its skeptical assessments of his comrades and his Army. The New York TimesWinner, 2022 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards, Journals, Memoirs, a...Daugiau...
Thobabens memoir offers a personal and diverse perspective on WWII combat in the Pacific, blending personal experience and interviews with veterans.Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author...Daugiau...
Ellery Sedgwick. Jr., Theodore Sedgwick, Ellery Sedgwick. Jr.
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Hamilton Books, ISBN-13: 9780761874935)
The book offers a Naval Intelligence officers insights into the role of naval intelligence during World War II. This book is Lt. Commander Ellery Sedgwick Jr.s account of his experiences in the Navy during World War II. They calle...Daugiau...
Leslie A. Fiedler, Samuele F. S. Pardini, Samuele F. S. Pardini
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855800456)
The letters in Writing Home offer a glimpse into a crucially formative period in the life of Leslie A. Fiedler, one of the greatest literary critics and American public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Written to his wife and two sons b...Daugiau...
Leslie A. Fiedler, Samuele F. S. Pardini, Samuele F. S. Pardini
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855800449)
Letters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945, while he was stationed in Hawaii and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II-- The letters in Writing Hom...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781399073202)
From 1942 until the end of the war in Europe, the aircraft of RAF Bomber Command and the United States 8th and 15th Air Forces maintained a twenty-four hour, round-the-clock bombing offensive against the Third Reich. However, aircraft and crew cas...Daugiau...
Elizabeth D. Samet, Charles B. Macdonald, J. Glenn Gray
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Library of America, ISBN-13: 9781598537857)
On the 80th anniversary of the wars end, 5 classic memoirs capture firsthand the shock, terror, and courage of the American fight against the Axis powers in EuropeThe emotional environment of warfare has always been compelling, writ...Daugiau...
First published in 1972, Edward D. Churchills Surgeon to Soldiers: Diary and Records of The Surgical Consultant, Allied Force Headquarters, World War II offers a unique perspective as wartime memoir. As the chief surgical consultant in...Daugiau...
This is an account of WWII correspondent Sidney A. Olsons experiences in Europe while covering the European Theater. Between December 1944 and June 1945, he cabled approximately 40 dispatches from the front. To recreate his journey, the dispatche...Daugiau...
The epic true story of an American hero who flew during the Second World War, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air....Daugiau...
Painstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts written about American heroism and breathtaking courage during the largest war in the world history, this breathtaking anthology brings readers to the front lines in inspiring detail--...Daugiau...
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky offers not only a panoramic view of a country poised between devastation and an uncertain future but a gripping self-portrait of a man poised between unresolved youthful bewilderment and a m...Daugiau...
One of the last great memoirs of World War II, Into the Cold Blue is a riveting account of the air war over Europe, when hell was four miles above the earth.A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after Pearl Har...Daugiau...
Amidst the chaos and uncertainty of World War II, one soldier found solace and strength in letters from home. An Army Air Corps serviceman from a prominent Madison family, Bob Gay paints a vivid picture of a young mans journey through a tumultu...Daugiau...
The book offers a Naval Intelligence officers insights into the role of naval intelligence during World War II-- The book offers a Naval Intelligence officers insights into the role of naval intelligence during World War II....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Mar-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: The University Press of Kentucky, ISBN-13: 9780813198712)
Nineteen months after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States to enter World War II, boats carrying the 7th US Army landed on the shores of southern Sicily. Dubbed Operation Husky, the campaign to establish an Allied footh...Daugiau...
Examining the little-known history of U.S. casualties of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, American Survivors brings to light the compellingly personal stories of U.S. survivors about war, illness, gender, and community in trans-Pacific con...Daugiau...
