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Books on War
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Patton: A Genius for War
Source: Amazon
Author: Carlo D'Este
- Biography of George Smith Patton from infancy to his untimely death. Covers Patton's experiences in both World Wars in detail. The footnotes, references and bibliography provide ample materials for further research.
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- 3 visitors recommend:
History's Greatest Conflict in Pictures
Source: Amazon
Author: edited by Richard B. Stolley
- A coffee table book from Life magazine. High-quality images from the escalating tensions of the pre-war world, the German blitzkrieg, the shock of Pearl Harbor, the fighting on land, sea, and air, D-Day, the home fronts, the atom bombs, and the war's historic aftermath.
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Chronicles of the Celts
Source: Irishop
Author: Iain Zaczek
Country: Ireland
- The epic stories of hero-warriors, faerie enchantresses, and magical forests, illustrated with 120 photographs of artefacts, manuscripts and landscapes.
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Source: Amazon
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
- "As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company" Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from grueling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day to the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Dachau to Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest.' (2001)
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The Long Walk
Source: Amazon
Author: Slavomir Rawicz
Country: Poland
- "Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag ... a year later, he and six comrades from various countries escaped from a labor camp in Yakutsk and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south." (1997)
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Source: Amazon
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Ambrose "focuses on the combat experiences of ordinary soldiers, as opposed to the generals who led them, and offers a series of compelling vignettes that read like an enterprising reporter's dispatches from the front lines." (1998)
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Source: Amazon
Author: Rick Atkinson
- A great book. It's pacted with historical insights and observations, but it's not boring. It's the most readable, enjoyable WWII history book I've read in years. (Oct. 2002)
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Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne
Source: Presidio Press
Author: Donald Burgett
- "The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division (fictional Private Ryan's unit) were ready for some well earned rest and recuperation. Following their combat in the Normandy Invasion, the division had been mauled during Field Marshal Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden, the campaign for the 'bridge too far' immortalized by Cornelius Ryan." Amazon.com readers give it 5 stars. (May 1999)
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The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
Source: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author: Donovan Webster
- In "The Burma Road" Donovan Webster vividly recreates the missions and adventures of Vinegar Joe Stilwell, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the eccentric British General Orde Wingate, and others who served in the China-India-Burma theater in World War 2. It's a entertaining, informative read.
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Five Days in London: May 1940
Source: Amazon
Author: John Lukacs
City: London, Country: United Kingdom
- From an Amazon reader: "This is a short book but one I predict you may want to re-read. We all know the story of how Winston Churchill rallied the British people in their darkest hour when they stood alone against Nazi tyranny. What we didn't know was how close it all came to falling apart, until now." (2001)
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
Source: Burford Books
Author: Charles B. MacDonald
- "As a newly commissioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish-the Battle of the Bulge." Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (November 1999)
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With Our Backs to Berlin
Source: Sutton Publishing
Author: Tony LeTissier
- "Based upon interviews with a wide-range of former German Army and SS soldiers, these unique personal episodes vividly depict the extraordinary circumstances of the Third Reich's final days as armies closed in from all sides. LeTissier's interviews link the brutality of combat with the humanity of the desperate battles." (May 2001)
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D-DAY: The Greatest Invasion - A People's History
Source: Word Trends
Author: Dan van der Vat
E-mail: petercostanzo@wordtrends.com
- Richly illustrated with hundreds of historical photographs -- many from private photo albums -- as well as personal artifacts, dramatic paintings by the many war artists on the scene, and modern color photographs, this book captures and preserves for a new generation the entire human drama and heroism that marked that unforgettable "longest day."
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Rainbow Over Hell: The Death Row Deliverance of a World War II Assassin
Source: Amazon
Author: Tsuneyuki Mohri, Translated by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
City: Island of Saipan
- Rainbow Over Hell (Pacific Press: Nampa, ID) is a dramatic true story about the Battle of Saipan.
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On Time, On Target: The World War II Memoir os a Field Artillery Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne
Source: Presidio Press
Author: John McKenzie
- The 'All Americans' of the 82nd Airborne Division (their distinctive red-white-and-blue shoulder patch featured a stylized double-A representing the fact that their World War I 'ancestors,' the 82nd Infantry Division had been frawn from across the United States) participated in some of the toughest fighting of World War II." Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (May 2000)
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Source: Amazon
Author: Elizabeth A. Fenn
- "In this engaging, creative history, Fenn (Natives and Newcomers) addresses an understudied aspect of the American Revolution: the intimate connection between smallpox and the war." (2001)
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- 5 visitors recommend:
From Here to Eternity
Source: Amazon
Author: James Jones
- One of the best pictures of life in the prewar army. (1985)
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World War II magazine
Source: ValueMags
- In seven issues per year, World War II magazine offers "a fresh perspective of personalities and events that make up history's greatest struggle."
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America in WWII magazine
Source: Jim Kushlan
City: Harrisburg, State: PA
- A new magazine.
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