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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S... -
![Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll]()
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics-on both sides-illuminating the greatest naval war in history. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss... -
![The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson]()
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler... -
![The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze]()
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe idea that Nazi Germany was an unstoppable juggernaut, backed by an efficient, highly industrialized economy, has been central to all accounts of World War II... -
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![KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann]()
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945... -
![The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns]()
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country... -
![Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully]()
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMany consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement... -
![The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson]()
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and ItalyIn An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa... -
![The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid]()
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action... -
![Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson]()
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJoining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory.In 1942, the U.S... -
![Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont]()
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew DelmontOver one million Black men and women served in World War II... -
![Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall]()
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States—attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces... -
![Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France by James Holland]()
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France by James Holland
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsD-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries... -
![Brave Men by Ernie Pyle]()
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEurope was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front... -
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![The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson]()
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA "breathtakingly magisterial" account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya... -
![“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill]()
“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis eBook reproduces British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s historic speech “Finest Hour,” delivered on June 18, 1940. The speech was dedicated to the heroism of Royal Air Force pilots defending England from the Luftwaffe during the critical Battle of Britain (July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940)... -
![The Last Seven Months Of Anne Frank - The Stories of Six Women Who Knew Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer]()
The Last Seven Months Of Anne Frank - The Stories of Six Women Who Knew Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSix powerful, harrowing, moving interviews with women who knew Anne Frank in the final seven months of her life. Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank – the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended... -
![The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan]()
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe unparalleled work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II -- now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.Newly in print for the first time in years, this is the classic story of the invasion of Normandy, and a book that endures as a masterpiece of living history... -
![D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches by Stephen E. Ambrose]()
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches by Stephen E. Ambrose
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not handgrenades; shooting... -
![The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill]()
The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWinston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed substantial literary talents. These two factors combine to make The Gathering Storm a unique work. The first volume of Churchill's memoirs, this selection is broken into two parts... -
![The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans]()
The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history:Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it... -
![Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian]()
Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal... -
![Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings]()
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war... -
![A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud]()
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II... -
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![Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin]()
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history... -
![Eleni by Nicholas Gage]()
Eleni by Nicholas Gage
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood... -
![The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill]()
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
![Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan]()
Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe drive to victory between June 1943 and July 1944, as the Allies consolidate their achievements, with enormous difficulty and great divergence of opinion... -
![Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill]()
Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
![The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt]()
The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence—to answer this question...
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