Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 264 p. The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a new offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.S. Marines. The sudden American proclivity for bold amphibious assaults into the teeth of prepared defenses astonished Japanese commanders. This is the story of seven...
Washington: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1996. — 52 p. Daybreak on 29 May 1945 found the 1st Marine Division beginning its fifth consecutive week of frontal assault as part of the U.S. Tenth Army's grinding offensive against the Japanese defenses centered on Shun Castle in southern Okinawa. Operation Iceberg, the campaign to seize Okinawa, was now two months old — and badly...
Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 304 p. Uses primary sources, Japanese documents, and interviews with survivors to present the history of the U.S. Marines' 1943 landing on the Japanese-held Tarawa atoll in the Pacific. Marine combat veteran and award-winning military historian Joseph Alexander takes a fresh look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. His gripping...
Casemate, 2014. — 257 p. From the bomb group that brought forth the bomber Memphis Belle and the movie Twelve O’clock High comes a final epic from the air war in Europe. In February 1945, the Allies launched Operation Thunderclap, a series of maximum efforts against cities in eastern Germany, partly to pave the way for the Red Army that would soon be overrunning that territory....
Simon and Schuster, 1997. — 512 p. From the bestselling author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day, the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, comes the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitter rest days of the war. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy...
Greenheel Books; Stackpole Books, 2000. — 72 p. — (The G.I. Series). — ISBN: 1-85367-426-5. In this brilliantly illustrated book, Christopher Anderson examines the uniforms and insignia worn by the United States Marine Corps in World War II. Marines were particularly distinguished, earning a superb reputation for daring amphibious assaults, and at Guadalcanal, Bougainville,...
Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 1995. — 31 p. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a...
Presidio Press, 1990. — 1055 p. World War II was by far the greatest war in the long bloody history of humankind. By virtually any standard of measure it dwarfs all wars that preceded it. The Greatest War is an American combat history of this war told largely in the words of the American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, men of what Tom Brokaw has dubbed the "greatest...
U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1995. — 36 p. — ISBN10: 0160451124 ISBN13: 9780160451126.
World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2012. — 448 p. As the Battle of the Bulge raged, a small force of American solders—including the famed 101st Airborne division, tank destroyer crews, engineers, and artillerymen—was completely surrounded by Hitler’s armies in the Belgian town of Bastogne. Taking the town was imperative to Hitler’s desperate plan to drive back the Allies and turn the...
Dutton Caliber, 2014. — 432 p. December 1944. For the besieged American defenders of Bastogne, time was running out. Hitler’s forces had pressed in on the small Belgian town in a desperate offensive designed to push back the Allies, starting the Battle of the Bulge. So far the U.S. soldiers had managed to repel waves of attackers and even a panzer onslaught. But as their...
Stackpole Books, 2017. — 312 p. American troops invaded North Africa in November 1942, but did not face serious resistance until the following February, when they finally tangled with Rommel’s Afrika Korps—and the Germans gave the inexperienced Americans a nasty drubbing at Kasserine Pass. After this disaster, Gen. George Patton took command and reinvigorated U.S. troops with...
Texas University Press, 2003. — 568 p. Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, "another Pearl Harbor" of perhaps more devastating consequence for American arms occurred in the Philippines, 4500 miles to the west. On December 8th, 1941 at 12:35 PM, 196 Japanese Navy bombers and fighters crippled the largest force of B-17 four-engine bombers outside the United States and also...
Stackpole Books, 2015. — 416 p. By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the Allies and the Third Reich's industrial heartland was the city of Aachen, once the ancient seat of Charlemagne's empire and now firmly entrenched within Germany's Siegfried Line fortifications. The city was on...
How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery. — Princeton, 2015. — 256 p.
In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with truckloads of...
Cassell, 2007. - 229 p. The battle of Midway ranks not just as one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, but also as one of the most important naval battles in history. Over a three-day period in June 1942, a force of three American carriers changed the course of the war in the Pacific theater by sinking the core of the Japanese strike fleet. The decisive nature of the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — 327 p. When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific. Rather...
Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1945. - 8 pgs. From a copy now in the Cornelius Ryan Collection, Ohio University, this is an official report by two officers of the U.S. 5th Armored Division who were ordered to make contact with the opposite Russian forces at the Elbe in 1945. After completion of their mission they, with their Chinese-American driver, made a sidetrack to...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 254 p. In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 257 p. Few episodes in American history were more transformative than World War II, and in no region did it bring greater change than in the West. Having lifted the United States out of the Great Depression, World War II set in motion a massive westward population movement, ignited a quarter-century boom that redefined the West as the nation's...
New York: Routledge/Taylor&Francis, 2018. — 295 p. Crucible of a Generation tells the story of the fifteen days surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the pages of eight leading American newspapers. Focusing on publications such as The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, J. Kenneth Brody paints a vivid picture of U.S. political culture and society at a pivotal...
Crown Publishers, 2012. — 494 p. From the acclaimed World War II writer and author of The Ghost Mountain Boys, an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front. In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it "as...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 408 p. This fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II "place(s) today’s myriad social traumas and dislocations in perspective. The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the...
Praeger Security International, 2006. — 289 p. GI Ingenuity is in large part an old-fashioned combat narrative, with mayhem and mass slaughter at center stage. But the book goes farther, combining military history with the history of science, technology, and culture to show how the American soldier improvised, innovated, and adapted on the battlefield. Among the improvisations...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 352 p. Elliot Carlson tells the story of Stanley Johnston, a Chicago Tribune reporter who may have exposed a vitally important U.S. naval secret during World War II. In 1942 Johnston is embarked in the aircraft carrier USS Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea. In addition to recording the crew's doomed effort to save the ship, Johnston...
Brigadier General, USA - 24 p. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has...
University Press of Kentucky, 1996. — 257 p. Almost forgotten in the haze of events that followed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the summer of 1945 witnessed an intense public debate over how best to end the war against Japan. Weary of fighting, the American people were determined to defeat the imperial power that had so viciously attacked them in December 1941, but they were...
Carrel Books, 2016. — 239 p. As America approaches the seventy-fifth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, author William M. Christie provides a detailed history of the United States on the eve of World War II. 1941: The America That Went to War presents not only the military events of 1941 and specific areas of interest like sports, home life, and transportation, but also...
Center of Military History of the United States Army, 1993. — 630 p. The Debate over the Southern France The Protagonists Trident, May 1943 Another Look at Southern France The Quadrant Conference The Cairo and Tehran Conferences Anvil Canceled Anvil Restored Churchill ’s Last Stand Command and Organization The High-Level Command Structure The 6th Army Group and the First French...
University of Missouri Press, 2012. — 232 p. 'Cooke's examination of the Special Services and PX System during World War II, a subject previously overlooked by scholars, shows that these goods and services kept the armed forces' spirits up under the alienating conditions of global war.' - Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century As...
Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose. — New York: Presido Press; Ballantine Books, 1998. Foreword. Belton Cooper's memoir of his World War II service with the 3d Armored Division in Europe is a gem. As a member of the 3d Armored Division Maintenance Battalion, he had liaison duties that took him far and wide, so he saw more of the war than most junior officers, and he writes about it...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 532 p. How the Grand Alliance of World War II succeeded--and then collapsed--because of personal politics. In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this...
University Press of Kentucky, 2020. — 324 p. When the air raid alarm sounded around 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Gunner's Mate Second Class James Allard Vessels of Paducah was preparing to participate in morning colors aboard the USS Arizona. In the scramble for battle stations, Vessels quickly climbed to a machine gun platform high atop the mainmast as others descended below...
Tucson, AZ: Western Research Company, 1992. — 272 p. This U.S. Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft battalion was sent to Assam, India, in August 1943, and then to Burma where it was the first American ground troops unit in action. In January 1945 it went over the Hump to China. After twenty-six months overseas duty the battalion was disbanded at Camp Kanchrapara, India. This book...
Washington, Office of Air Force History, 1983. — 912 p. Volume Six. Serial: Men And Planes. In March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the I Director of the Bureau of the Budget ordering each war agency to prepare “an accurate and objective account” of that agency’s war experience. Soon after, the Army Air Forces began hiring professional historians so that its...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 345 p. This book recounts how the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The author uses extensive Japanese materials--many never before used or available-- to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama.
Flatiron Books, 2016. — 320 p. In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, North Carolina, out of fear of Japanese attacks on the West Coast. It remains the only Rose Bowl game to ever be played outside of Pasadena. Duke University, led by legendary coach Wallace Wade Sr., faced off against underdog Oregon State College,...
Lyons Press, 2020. — 301 p. From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime documents, this is a thrilling narrative of the Marines who lived, and died,...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 272 p. Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. It took raw courage to fly on Operation...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 675 p. Having guided the nation through the worst economic crisis in its history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 1939 was turning his attention to a world on the brink of war. The second part of Roger Daniels's biography focuses on FDR's growing mastery in foreign affairs. Relying on FDR's own words to the American people and eyewitness...
Chelsea House, 2009. — 128 p.
When December 7, 1941, dawned in Hawaii, no one expected that by the end of the day, the U.S. Pacific Fleet would lie in ruins and the United States would be at war. That morning, in just over an hour and a half, the planes of the Japanese First Carrier Striking Force sank or severely damaged 18 American warships lying at anchor at the Pearl Harbor...
Армия США во Второй Мировой войне. На английском. Содержание: Special operations in the mediterranean. Special operations in the european theater. Special operations in the pacific. Special operations in the china-burma-india theater.
Northern Illinois University Press, 2014. — 257 p. The presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the first since 1864—and one of only a few in all of US history—to take place while the nation was at war. After a brief primary season, the Republican Party settled upon New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, the former district...
Viking, 2022. — 747 p. — ISBN 9781984880390 Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war...
Atheneum Press, 1967. — 382 p. Prologue. Defenders of the Faith. War. “The Century of the Common Man”. Revolt in the Senate. One World. Commitment. How Brave Will the New World Be? “Your Move, Mister President". The Bi-Partisan Victory. Winter of Discontent. San Francisco. Vindication. Bibliographical Essay. List of Sources Cited in Notes. Notes.
Yale University Press, 2018. — 264 p. In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 256 p. ISBN10: 1849087164 ISBN13: 9781849087162 (eng)
On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 467 p. Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long‑term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity...
University of North Texas Press, 2023. — 416 p. During World War II the United States mobilized its industrial assets to become the great “Arsenal of Democracy” through the cooperation of the government and private firms. The Dallas Story examines a specific aviation factory, operated by the North American Aviation (NAA) company in Dallas, Texas. Terrance Furgerson explores the...
Arcadia Publishing, 2012. — 192 p. Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States began to prepare to enter World War II. When the army decided to build a depot in Seneca County in 1941, dozens of families were given only days to vacate the homes they loved and land they had farmed for generations. The depot provided vital jobs for residents, but it also continued to...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 p. On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the...
Palgrave Pivot, 2020. — 161 p. From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans who were incredulous and horrified about the attack at Pearl Harbor. Americans...
Center of Military History United States Army, 1990. — 145 p. ASIN: B000B55AD6 Guam: Operations of the 77th Division (21 July-10 August 1944) is one of a series of fourteen studies of World War II operations originally published by the War Department’s Historical Division and now returned to print as part of the Army’s commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 528 p. The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves....
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 325 p. Barbed Voices is an engaging anthology of the most significant published articles written by the well-known and highly respected historian of Japanese American history Arthur Hansen, updated and annotated for contemporary context. Featuring selected inmates and camp groups who spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War...
A National Historic Landmarks Theme Study, 2007. — 198 p. Historic Contexts Foreword Mobilization and its Impact The American Family on the Home Front Labor and the Working Class in World War II African Americans and Other Minorities on the Home Front Associated Property Types Types of Historic Home Front Properties Registration Requirements for National Historic Landmark...
St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 304 p. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided.0Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and...
Berkeley, California: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1985. — 109 p. — (China Research Monograph 27). China Research Monographs have been published since 1967 and now include well over sixty titles. Since 1978, the series has come out under co-sponsorship with the Institute of East Asian Studies. David Dean Barrett (1892–1977) was an American soldier,...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 352 p. During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called "assembly centers" surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries. In this insightful...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 294 p. The literature on American entry into World War II is rich and abundant but mostly segmented, concerned with particular topics, regions, or relationships. Histories of the Pearl Harbor attack, for example, form a world in themselves. Yet world politics was not compartmentalized. The cataclysmic changes in the configuration of world power...
Random House, 2012. — 432 p. Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty. In Freedom’s Forge, bestselling...
Delacorte Press, 1983. — 277 p. For almost forty years the facts behind the extraordinary true story of Nazi-American wartime business relations have been buried in government files. Now at last Charles Higham, drawing his account from thousands of documents just released under the Freedom of Information Act, has given us a full-scale picture of the American businessmen who...
Bremen: Verlag Wieland Soyka, 1986. — 51 p. Книга знаменитого и противоречивого британского историка о плане Моргентхау по деиндустриализации и денацификации Германии после её поражения во Второй мировой войне (на немецком языке, без фотографий, источников и официальных документов)
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 252 p. This document collection sheds light on Japanese American internment through the voices and perspectives of those who directly experienced this event as well as those who created the policy behind it. The book provides readers with a wide range of first-hand accounts, government reports, and media responses that help readers to better understand the...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 264 p. In 1940, for the first time since America’s founding, a sitting president sought a third term in office. But this was only one remarkable aspect of that year’s election, which was, as John Jeffries makes clear in his new book, one of the most interesting and important elections in American history. Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to pack the...
Frontline Books, 2023. — 258 p. The Plot of Shame - US Military Executions in Europe During World War II by Paul Johnson describes the men who were executed for crimes committed in the European Theater of Operations during and just after the Second World War. The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is the last resting place of 6,012 American soldiers who died fighting in a small...
Dutton Caliber, 2016. — 676 p. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States was wakened from its slumber of isolationism. To help him steer the nation through the coming war, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the greatest “team of rivals” since the days of Lincoln: Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Admiral Ernest J. King, and General George C. Marshall. Together, these...
Princeton University Press, 1991. — 320 p. As the face of eastern Europe and the world changes before our eyes, Roosevelt's goals, dismissed during the Cold War as impractical, seem less unrealistic. This title explores Roosevelt's vision of the postwar world by laying out the nature and development of FDR's 'war aims' - his long-range political goals.
U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1991. — 26 p. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a...
University Press of Kansas, 2018. — 673 p. Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponry of every kind were constantly demanded by the military and readily supplied by American business. While that relationship was remarkably...
University Press of Colorado, 2022. — 235 p. Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya (1923–2018), a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC), which was organized at the Heart Mountain concentration camp. The first book-length account by a Nisei World War II draft resister, this work presents an insider’s perspective on the FPC and the infamous...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 730 p. Few American presidents have exercised their constitutional authority as commander in chief with more determination than Franklin D. Roosevelt. He intervened in military operations more often and to better effect than his contemporaries Churchill and Stalin, and maneuvered events so that the Grand Alliance was directed from Washington. In this...
University of Georgia Press, 2016. — 282 p. Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II–era Chicago. Robert Lewis’s rich trove of material―drawn from research on more than six hundred federally funded wartime industrial...
Public Affairs, 2010. — 297 p. The death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945 sent shock waves around the world. His lifelong physician swore that the president had always been a picture of health. Later, in 1970, Roosevelt’s cardiologist admitted he had been suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and that his death—from a cerebral hemorrhage—was “a cataclysmic event waiting...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 375 p. On August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and presumably final term in office, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was working in the Oval Office and contemplating construction of his presidential library and planning retirement. The next day German tanks had crossed the Polish border; Britain and France had declared war....
Toe Devin-Adair Company, 1947. — 430 p. This classic work remains unsurpassed as a one-volume treatment of America 's Day of Infamy. An indispensable introduction to the question of who bears the blame for the Pearl Harbor surprise, and, more important, for America 's entry, through the "back door," into World War II. With detailed source references and index. This is one of...
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006. — 1080 p. Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl...
Henry Holt and Co., 2016. — 337 p. — (Bill O’Reilly's Killing Series). Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes...
Temple University Press, 2003. — 344 p. When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and called upon to defend the islands against invasion immediately after the attack. In a matter of weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In this book, Franklin Odo...
Greenwood Press, 1980. — 298 p. A discussion of the radical alteration of the character of American society caused by World War II. The war redefined the relationship of government to the individual and of individuals to each other, and it posed questions about the relationship between civilians and the military, between liberty and security, between special interests and...
U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1996. — 27 p. — ISBN 10 0160481341 ISBN13 9780160481345. World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. — 390 p. A dramatic, fascinating–and revisionist–narrative detailing how America’s first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically acclaimed author. From breathless hagiographies to scandal-mongering exposés, no family has generated more bestselling books...
Simon and Schuster, 2015. — 432 p. The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families--many US citizens--were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered more than 10,000 civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the...
Yale University Press, 1977. — 270 p. Organization and Aspirations. First Plans. The Campaign for Universal Military Training. The Politics of Preparedness. Soldiers and Scientists. Measuring the Russian Threat. Preventing World War III. Epilogue : The Legacy. Selected Bibliography.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 345 p. Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that "big government" gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the...
Wilderness Press, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0899974750. In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra find the mummified remains of a man in a WW II uniform, entombed in the ice. The "Frozen Airman" discovery creates a media storm which draws author Peter Stekel to investigate and stumble upon the case of a navigation training flight crew...
Twelve, 2018. — 496 р. — ISBN: 978-1455567485. From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and saboteurs; of Nazi, Fascist, and Communist...
Iowa City, Iowa Wednesday, January 27. President Inspects American Contingent in French Morocco Chief Executive, Churchill Agree on '43 War Plans 12 000 Hazis Trapped at SIalingrad Killed-Captured Washington in' Wartime
Washington, D. C.: US Department of State, 1947. — 250 p. — (Publication 2743 / European Series 21) Treaty of Peace with Italy Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria Treaty of Peace with Hungary Treaty of Peace with Roumania Treaty of Peace with Finland
Washington, D. C.: US Department of State, 1947. — 250 p. — (Publication 2743 / European Series 21) Treaty of Peace with Italy Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria Treaty of Peace with Hungary Treaty of Peace with Roumania Treaty of Peace with Finland
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 168 p. New scholarship on World War II continues to broaden our understanding. With each passing year we know more about the triumphs and the tragedies of America's involvement in the momentous conflict. Tapping into this greater awareness of the accomplishments of both soldiers and civilians and a better recognition of the consequences of decisions...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. — 295 p. In 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War, historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to that infamous day, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Winston Churchill, England's...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. — 200 p. Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development of the emerging Civil Rights movement...
Regnery History, 2016. — 352 p. The aftershocks of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were felt keenly all over America—the war in Europe had hit home. But nowhere was American life more immediately disrupted than on the West Coast, where people lived in certain fear of more Japanese attacks. From that day until the end of the war, a dizzying mix of battle preparedness...
Texas University Press, 2009. — 336 p. In Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas, Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries. Contending that discrimination undermined job opportunities, Zamora investigates the...
Casemate Publishing, 2011. - 480 Pages. ISBN: 161200010X The December 7th, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has been portrayed by historians as a dazzling success, brilliantly conceived and meticulously planned. With most American historians concentrating on command errors and the story of participants’ experiences, the Japanese attack operation has never been subjected to a...
Самара: ООО «Издательство АсГард», 2009. – 238 с.
В монографии изучается проблема становления и эволюции образа Пёрл-Харбора в сознании разных слоёв американского общества. Автор анализирует механизмы распространения информации о Пёрл-Харборе и её дальнейшей трансформации в массовом сознании и в общественно-политических установках различных сегментов гражданского общества. В...
Самара: Ас Гард, 2012. — 116 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4259-0169-9. В исследовании рассматривается процесс формирования в американском обществе образа победы в войне на Тихом океане (август 1945 г.) Изучены документы военных США, содержащие оценки хода, характера и итогов заключительного этапа войны. Показано, как мнение военных влияло на общественность (и наоборот). Введение. Глава...
Самара : ООО «Издательство «АсГард», 2011. - 190 с.
В исследовании рассматривается процесс формирования представлений о сражении за Мидуэй в американском обществе 1942–1945 гг. Изучены документы военных США, содержащие оценки хода, характера и итогов битвы. Указано, как мнение военных влияло на общественность – и наоборот. На основе широкого круга периодических изданий...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1962. — 290 с. Настоящая работа является попыткой рассмотреть процесс вступления США во Вторую мировую войну в его важнейших внутриполитических и внешних аспектах. Главы: США накануне войны США и "странная война" в Европе (сент. 1939- апрель 1940гг. ) США от окончания "странной войны" до начала Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза США в Великую...
Санкт-Петербург: Полигон, 2000. - 800 с.
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Книга С. Э. Морисона «Битва за Атлантику» (сентябрь 1939 г. — май 1945 г. История морских операций военно-морского флота США во второй мировой войне) рассказывает о боевой деятельности американского военно-морского флота и флотов его союзников в Атлантическом океане в 1939–1945 годы, о...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1957. — 420 с. В книге дается описание боевых действий американских подводных лодок во второй мировой войне, главным образом на Тихом океане. Подробно рассказывается об одиночных и групповых действиях лодок против торгового флота Японии, а также действиях против ее боевых кораблей. Рассматриваются тактические приемы подводных лодок по...
М.: АСТ, Транзиткнига, 2005. – 784 с. ISBN: 5-17-026036-9, 5-9578-1335-4 Книга посвящена боевым действиям эскадренных миноносцев США во время Второй мировой войны. Масса фактических данных и живой, красочный язык выделяют ее среди множества трудов, описывающих военные операции на море. Книга снабжена многочисленными иллюстрациями, справочными приложениями и будет интересна как...
М.: Наука, 1974. - 398 с.
В книге на основе большого документального и фактического материала проанализированы различные аспекты американо-французских отношений в 1939 - 1945 гг. Противоречивость и сложность развития отношений между США и Францией, эволюция военных и политических взаимоотношений этих государств, столкновение их интересов находятся в центре внимания исследования.
Пер. с англ. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1947. — 243 с.
Американские журналисты Майкл Сейерс и Альберт Кан собрали обширный материал о происках фашистских агентов и диверсантов Германии в Америке в годы Второй мировой войны. Их книга отличается не только увлекательным изложением, но также своей достоверностью и серьезным подходом к оценке фактов. Она описывает...
Пер. с англ. О. В. Грузиновой, Н. О. Камионской, Д. Э. Куниной, Н. К. Левита и Е. С. Романовой. — М.: Государственное издательство иностранной литературы, 1947. — 242 с. Американские журналисты Майкл Сейерс и Альберт Кан собрали обширный материал о происках фашистских агентов и диверсантов Германии в Америке в годы Второй мировой войны. Их книга отличается не только...
Пер. с англ. / Ред. В.Н. Павлов. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 678 с. 1942 год. Крайний предел. Конференция "Аркадия". Политика в отношении Виши. Зима катастроф. Решено атаковать. Переговоры в Вашингтоне. Изменение решения. Перелом в войне. 1943 год. Второй фронт. Конференция в Касабланке. Политическая ситуация. "Трайдент" и "Квадрант". Каир, Тегеран и...
Пер. с англ. / Ред. В.Н. Павлов. — Вступ. ст. Ю.В. Борисова. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 678 с. Вступительная статья. От автора. Введение. До 1941 года. Воспитание Гарри Гопкинса. Предисловие. От Сиу-Сити до Вашингтона. Программа помощи. Мысли о президентстве. Странная война. Бывший военно-морской деятель. Цепная реакция. Кампания за избрание на третий...
М.: Политиздат, 1988. - 286 с.
7 декабря 1941 года в результате внезапного нападения Японии на Пёрл-Харбор (Гавайские острова) американскому флоту был нанесен значительный урон, а политический авторитет США серьезно пошатнулся. В новой книге известного советского историка Н. Н. Яковлева раскрываются причины, обстоятельства и последствия этого события, в результате которого США...
Москва: Политиздат, 1988. — 286 с. 7 декабря 1941 года в результате внезапного нападения Японии на Перл-Харбор (Гавайские острова) американскому флоту был нанесен значительный урон, а политический авторитет США серьезно пошатнулся. В новой книге известного советского историка Н. Н. Яковлева раскрываются причины, обстоятельства и последствия этого события, в результате которого США...
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