Second World War

In her warm and witty new memoir, Stella Suberman charms readers with her personal perspective as she recalls the original 1940s GI Bill. As she w...

As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to ...

Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional succ...

In telling Pierre-Charles Toureilles story, Tela Zasloff also describes the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern F...

Struck with the desire to see and do more with her life, a young South Dakota woman left the family home in Redfield to go to work for Senator Pete...

The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940. Anthony Cumming challenges the view...

In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook a daring, behind the lines reconnaissance of the Japanese-hel...

By April 1945, Allied troops of both America and the Soviet Union had established control over Germany and German-occupied Poland. General Dwight D...

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Ameri...

When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944, civilians and combatants committed mass suicide to avoi...

As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From victory g...

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America's fast carrier task forces, with their aircraft squadrons and powerful support warships, went...

A secret bombing mission, a crash-landing, a bold escapefar from the plains of his homeland, World War II pilot Donald G. (Don) Smith swam toward u...

They're Killing my Boys is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on Hickam Field then one of two major US Army airfi...

Hawaiis 100th Infantry Battalion Separate was the first U.S. Army combat unit composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs). Its original membe...

Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Mu...

Focusing on the wartime activities of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Axis-controlled Yugoslavia during World War II, this book c...

This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achie...

In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal...

A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his familyand especially his war-hero fatherby being dismissed from West Point, Michae...

Historians acknowledge that World War II touched every man, woman, and child in the United States. In Small Town America in World War II, Ronald E....

She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nan...

World War II could not have been won without the U.S. Merchant Marine. Crewed by civilian seamen in peacetime and carrying much of the nation's ...