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| Author | : Tracy Campbell |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 403 |
| Release | : 2020-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300252838 |
Download The Year of Peril Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post–Pearl Harbor era, even as the nation mobilized, government†‘aided industrial infrastructure blossomed, and parents sent their sons off to war. This captivating look at how American society responded to the greatest stress experienced since the Civil War reveals the various ways, both good and bad, that the trauma of 1942 forced Americans to redefine their relationship with democracy in ways that continue to affect us today.
| Author | : Tod Olson |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2016-10-25 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0545928125 |
Download Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact, they will be left stranded without food or water hundreds of miles from civilization. Eight men. Three inflatable rafts. Sixty-eight million square miles of ocean. What will it take to make it back alive?
| Author | : Борис Горбачевский |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Download Through the Maelstrom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A junior officer in the Red Army provides one of the richest and most detailed memoirs of life and warfare on the Eastern Front, from his combat training in early 1942 until the surrender and occupation of Germany.
| Author | : Ian W. Toll |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 732 |
| Release | : 2011-11-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393083179 |
Download Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
| Author | : Robert Conroy |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2009-02-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0345506073 |
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December 7 is “the date which will live in infamy.” But now Japan is hatching another, far greater plan to bring America to its knees. . . . The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding success–except for one detail: a second bombing mission, to destroy crucial oil storage facilities, was aborted that day. Now, in this gripping and stunning work of alternate history, Robert Conroy reimagines December 7, 1941, to include the attack the Japanese didn’t launch, and what follows is a thrilling tale of war, resistance, sacrifice, and courage. For when Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sees how badly the United States has been ravaged in a two-pronged strike, he devises another, more daring proposal: an all-out invasion of Hawaii to put a stranglehold on the American Pacific Fleet. Yamamoto’s strategy works brilliantly–at first. But a handful of American soldiers and a determined civilian resistance fight back in the face of cruelty unknown in Western warfare. Stateside, a counterassault is planned–and the pioneering MIT-trained aviator Colonel Jimmy Doolittle is given a near-impossible mission with a fleet of seaplanes jury-rigged into bombers. From spies to ordinary heroes and those caught between two cultures at war, this is the epic saga of the Battle of Hawaii–the way it very nearly was. . . .
| Author | : James Holland |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 904 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
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"When the Axis fores were finally driven from North Africa in May 1943, over 250,000 were taken prisoner, as many as had surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad. It was a major victory and a crucial stepping-stone to the future invasion of Italy and France." "Yet, just a year before, the Allies had been facing one disaster after another. In North Africa, the Eighth Army's terrible defeat at Gazala represented Britain's nadir. Slowly but surely, however, the Allies began to turn the tide. This crucial period was a time of learning for both America and Britain and, by the end of the Tunisian campaign they had finally gained material but also certain tactical advantages over Germany, particularly in the air war. As this book shows, the development of a tactical air force - principles that are still used to this day - were founded over the skies of North Africa." "And yet this is also a book about the men - and women - who found themselves caught up in this struggle, people drawn from all parts of the globe and brought together to make up these polyglot Allied forces: British and American, Nepalese and Punjabi, South African and Australian, Maori and Zulu, and from all ranks and all services."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : George E. Blau |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1955 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : |
Download The German Campaign in Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Ken Ford |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1849087245 |
Download Gazala 1942 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Illustrated by contemporary photos and specially commissioned maps, this book is a fascinating account of Rommel's greatest victory. Following a lull in the desert war which saw the Germans and British reinforce their armies, Rommel suddenly attacked British fortifications with an assault on the northern sector of the British line near Gazala. Pinning down the British in the north and outflanking the 1st Free French Brigade, Rommel succeeded in encircling the main British positions, trapping them in what became known as 'The Cauldron'. With thousands of British soldiers killed or taken prisoner, this was a devastating defeat for the Allies. Accompanied by contemporary photographs and maps depicting the movement of both armies, Ken Ford provides a masterful study of Rommel, the 'Desert Fox', at the height of his powers as he swept the British army back to the site of their final stand at El Alamein.
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| Total Pages | : 18 |
| Release | : 1944 |
| Genre | : Argentina |
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Download United States Trade with Argentina in 1942 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Brian Rust |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1984-01-21 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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