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Author: New York Times
Publisher: Bbs Publishing Corporation
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780883659625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An impressive chronicle of the events of World War II compiles all the major New York Times headlines to create a powerful reminder that we should never forget the most destructive war in history and its effect on the American people and their government.
Author: Donald L. Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-08
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1439128227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
Author: Louis Leo Snyder
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780531006764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spotlights the important events and people of World War II.
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains reproductions of the front pages of "The New York Times," that feature some of the most significant stories of World War II, from Germany's invasion of Poland to the surrender of Japan.
Author: W.c. Heinz
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2009-07-21
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0786749881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before W. C. Heinz embarked on his illustrious career as one of the premier sports writers of the past fifty years, he served as a war correspondent for the New York Sun. Now for the first time ever, Heinz's finest work on World War II, written both during and after the war, is collected in one volume. From his first-person account aboard the U.S.S. Nevada during D-Day in 1944 to his legendary dispatches from the towns and battlefields of the European front, Heinz vividly conveys the courage, humor, and humanity of men under fire. Whether describing a battle scene or a soldier, Heinz brings home the war like few others ever have. In the second half of the book, he and his fourteen-year-old son, Bud, revisit the beaches of Normandy with D-Day veteran Major General Earl Rudder, who recounts his experiences there; in another story he describes, in his patented you-are-there style, the morning three German spies were executed; and in the concluding piece, Heinz revisits many of the towns he journeyed through as the American army fought its way across Europe twenty years before.When We Were One is a superb collection of writing on World War II that ranks with the finest ever assembled on any war.
Author: John Davison
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781848844346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1939 and 1945, Allied and Axis newspapers provided the first draft of history in a conflict that engulfed the world. This large format volume charts all the significant events of World War II through facsimile reproductions of newspaper front pages from Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy and France. From Germany's invasion of Poland and Britain's declaration of war in 1939, through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the D-Day landings of 1944, to victory in Europe and the dropping of American atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, Front Page World War II shows how history was captured in the headlines. With expert analysis of each newspaper's front page and additional photographs of the events described, Front Page World War II is a unique reference resource that brings World War II to life with an immediacy that can only be experienced through the dramatic reporting of the time.
Author: C. Frederick Schwan
Publisher: B N R Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 1026
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Overy
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-04-09
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0191045381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course, and what subjects to focus on when considering the wartime experience. For instance, as World War Two recedes ever further into the past, even a question as apparently basic as when it began and ended becomes less certain. Was it 1939, when the war in Europe began? Or the summer of 1941, with the beginning of Hitler's war against the Soviet Union? Or did it become truly global only when the Japanese brought the USA into the war at the end of 1941? And what of the long conflict in East Asia, beginning with the Japanese aggression in China in the early 1930s and only ending with the triumph of the Chinese Communists in 1949? In The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two a team of leading historians re-assesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in terms of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint of the Axis aggressor states. Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to assessments of fighting power and military and technical innovation, the economics of total war, the culture and propaganda of war, and the experience of war (and genocide) for both combatants and civilians, concluding with an account of the transition from World War to Cold War in the late 1940s. Together, they provide a stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible and fascinating episodes in world history.
Author: Eric Caren
Publisher: Book Sales
Published: 2001-03-01
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780785813415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The newspapers in this book allow us to relive the experience of Pearl Harbor in a unique manner. We have pulled together a wide range of original newspapers, including an extremely rare emergency press issue by "Hickham Highlights" that was put out right on one of the airfields that was hit on December 7, 1941! ..."--Introduction.
