The good news for 1942 was that mobilization exceeded all expectations. Cooperation and patriotism swept the country. In the Detroit suburbs, Ford and Hudson turned from cars and trucks to bombers.

This account of my travels and experiences during four of the six and a half years I served in the British Army was written very much from memory, 45 or so years after the events, but with the ...

Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

A striking and philosophical look at the everyday citizens who helped shape the course of WWII, The War is masterfully narrated by author Burns and an assortment of Hollywood talent, including Tom ...

Raus was one of the Wehrmacht's most accomplished generals, and his memoirs are a welcome addition to the literature on World War II. Raus entered Russia in June 1941 as a brigade commander in Germany ...

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On June 22, 1941, German troops invaded the Soviet Union’s territory. German planes dropped bombs on Kiev (now the capital of Ukraine), Minsk (now the capital of Belarus), Riga (now the capital of ...

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 354. Illus., maps, table, notes, biblio., index. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 148754166X The author, an historian at Spain ...

Jun 29, 2009 - The veteran game developers Gary Grigsby, Joel Billings and Keith Brors are working hard to bring gamers WWII on the Eastern Front.

Pike’s book is an extraordinary achievement; it is as definitive as any single-volume history of the Pacific War can be. As the title suggests, Pike does not let Japanese Emperor Hirohito off the hook ...

During that Spring of 1944 historic events were taking place in Assam. In early March the Japanese Army massed in Burma had launched its planned "Invasion of India", or "The March on Delhi", with ...