History / World War II

B-24 Liberator vs Ki-43 Oscar: China and Burma 1943

by Edward Young & Jim Laurier

During the late 1930s an armament race developed between bombers and the fighters that were bent on stopping them. The development of multi-engined, multi-gun, all-metal bombers forced a corresponding increase...

The Fall of the Philippines 1941-42

by Clayton Chun & Howard Gerrard

The Philippine Islands were one of two major US bases in the Pacific, the other being Pearl Harbor. The Japanese considered the capture of the Philippines crucial for its efforts to control resource-laden Southeast...

With Utmost Spirit

by Barbara Brooks Tomblin

" Nineteen months before the D-day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen....

The Unknown Dead

by Peter Schrijvers

Traditional histories of the hard-fought Battle of the Bulge routinely include detailed lists of the casualties suffered by American, British, and German troops. Conspicuously lacking in most accounts, however,...

Fugitives

by Bob Stahl

" When the Japanese Imperial Forces invaded the Philippine Islands at the onset of World War II, they quickly rounded up Allied citizens on Luzon and imprisoned them as enemy aliens. These captured civilians...

Endkampf

by Stephen G. Fritz

At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned...

Retribution

by Max Hastings

By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing drama—that ended in Japan's utter devastation—was acted...

The Official U-boat Commander's Handbook - The Illustrated Edition

by Bob Carruthers

This is the complete wartime translation by the U.S. Navy of the 1943 edition of the official handbook given to all U-boat commanders. The original handbook was compiled from combat reports and was regularly...

War without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR

by John Dower

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books...

The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe

by Mckay Jenkins

When World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939–40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet...

Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army

by Rachel S. Cox

The untold story of five young American friends who left the ivory towers at Harvard and Dartmouth to take on Rommel's Panzers under the blazing sun of North Africa…

In the spring of 1941, with Europe...

Across the Dark Islands: The War in the Pacific

by Floyd W. Radike

ACROSS THE DARK ISLANDS

The War in the Pacific

Floyd W. Radike

Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.)

“I remember sitting in a foxhole on Guadalcanal in the rain. The sergeant I shared the hole with shook his head...

Wehrmacht Combat Reports - The Russian Front

by Bob Carruthers

"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." General Heinz Guderian This fascinating collection of Allied reports focusing on the combat...

Pearl Harbor Ghosts: The Legacy of December 7, 1941

by Thurston Clarke

A landmark book published to rave reviews a decade ago, Pearl Harbor Ghosts has now been updated to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack that forever changed the course of history.

Full of...

The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang

by William Tuohy

“There’s no margin for mistakes in submarines. You’re either alive or dead.”

–Richard O’Kane

Hailed as the ace of aces, captain Richard O’Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his...

The Red Army in Combat 1941-1945

by Bob Carruthers

"We have to ensure that the offensive is not only 100% successful, but 200%!" General Zhukov, Vistula-Oder Offensive, 1945 This fascinating compilation of wartime battlefield reports drawn from Russian and German...

World War II Remembered

by Clinton C. Gardner

An exceptional human document of proud men and women who know what it meant to serve

Eastern Front: Night Combat

by Bob Carruthers

"Night operations call for disciplined, cool, self-reliant troops." principles of night combat With the on-set of the Cold War the pool of hard won knowledge gained by the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front was...

Luftwaffe Combat Reports

by Bob Carruthers

"My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?" Hermann Goering, June 1940. These detailed accounts of Luftwaffe combat operations are taken from...

An Ace of the Eighth: An American Fighter Pilot's Air War in Europe

by Norman J. Fortier

FOR A FIGHTER PILOT IN THE MIGHTY EIGHTH, DEATH WAS ALWAYS A HEARTBEAT AWAY.

When the skies of Europe blazed with the fiercest air battles in history, fighter pilots like Norman “Bud” Fortier were in the...