The author, Murray Soskil, is the recipient of two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and six Battle Stars for service in southern France and Germany with the 3rd Infantry Division. His memoir is testimony to the bravery of American servicemen in the face of evil.
This WWII thriller opens with a B-17 bombing raid out of England and transitions to a German U-boat prowling the coast of Maine before the storylines come together in the heartland of the US home front.
The author's third book contains short stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews in deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II and stories of his own teenage combat experiences as radio/gunner on twenty missions with the Mighty Eighth.
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe, finishing up the first two volumes which recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory.
For ages 9 and up.
Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fascinating, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945.
Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly to unravel a secret passionately guarded by four aging soldiers. The reader is transported back in time to an imperfect America, with all is incredible virtues and vexing shortcomings, struggling with racial and gender issues while fighting for its very survival.
A a story that takes the reader from the protagonist's (Danny McClain's) adolescence to his WWII flying experiences and unlikely romance with a Dutch resistance fighter to a happy ending.
One of the world's premier historians of WWII, Anthony Beevor turns his focus to an overall narrative of the Second World War, from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched.
During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louis Zamperini’s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time.
This book grips you like a movie. The true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies: the American — 2nd Lt Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 — and the German — 2nd Lt Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.