![The Making of a Paratrooper: Airborne Training and Combat in World War II](/uploads/profile_image/44f/13355d35-b55c-4928-bdef-73b98baa844f.jpg?m=1522323936)
The Making of a Paratrooper: Airborne Training and Combat in World War II
Kurt Gabel, William C. Mitchell and Theodore A. Wilson
Book
The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabel-a German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th...
![The Lone Flag: Memoir of the British Consul in Macao During World War II](/uploads/profile_image/126/d31fe32d-9ae2-4167-89ad-fd9b6c121126.jpg?m=1522340699)
The Lone Flag: Memoir of the British Consul in Macao During World War II
John Pownall Reeves, Colin Day, Richard J. Garrett and David Calthorpe
Book
When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave...
![Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II](/uploads/profile_image/c4a/f30dd3ef-2e6f-4c87-8400-8b0ca3367c4a.jpg?m=1580579720)
Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
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The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in...
![The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash - The Greatest Escaper of World War II](/uploads/profile_image/077/4e2dbc8f-2b24-4a7c-bf62-593b6eba0077.jpg?m=1522356250)
The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash - The Greatest Escaper of World War II
Book
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in...
Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
Book
In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert...
![Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II](/uploads/profile_image/e6c/3ab2b318-30d4-4dee-9976-b2cfafde4e6c.jpg?m=1522329085)
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
Book
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous...
![Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II](/uploads/profile_image/380/35b55158-ccd3-48c8-bab3-472e09938380.jpg?m=1522355319)
Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II
Book
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among...
![Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II](/uploads/profile_image/acc/c91fc96d-f6a2-4d81-ad3c-4c13bd360acc.jpg?m=1522327480)
Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II
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Garbo was the British codename of Joan Puyol Garcia, perhaps the most influential spy of the Second...
![The Western Allies and Soviet Potential in World War II: Economy, Society, and Military Power](/uploads/profile_image/aba/156f4992-2a60-4405-bdbd-899a2c2a7aba.jpg?m=1522352722)
The Western Allies and Soviet Potential in World War II: Economy, Society, and Military Power
Book
World War II was the largest and most devastating war in modern history with far-reaching...