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As good as dead: the true WWII story of eleven American POWs who escaped from Palawan Island
By Stephen L Moore. 2016
In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach.…
But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. As soldiers, sailors and Marines were herded into shallow air raid shelters, Japanese soldiers doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. By the next morning, only eleven men were left alive-but their desperate journey to freedom had just begun. 2016.Dawn of infamy: a sunken ship, a vanished crew, and the final mystery of Pearl Harbor
By Stephen Harding. 2016
Harding explores the little-known episode of a U.S. cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the…
attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. 2016.Deadly sky: the American combat airman in World War II
By John C McManus. 2016
This insightful chronicle takes readers inside the experiences of America's fighter pilots and bomber crews, an incredible assortment of men…
who, in nearly four years of warfare all over the globe, suffered over 120,000 casualties with over 40,000 killed. 2016.Commander in chief: FDR's battle with Churchill, 1943
By Nigel Hamilton. 2016
Describes the yearlong battle between Roosevelt and Churchill during World War II, to decide whether the Allies should carry out…
the planned invasion of Normandy, or take on disastrous fighting in Italy. 2016.Beyond the call: the true story of one World War II pilot's covert mission to rescue POWs on the eastern front
By Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield. 2015
Destination Casablanca: exile, espionage, and the battle for North Africa in World War II
By Meredith Hindley. 2017
In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a…
key military target. It soon became rife with rogue soldiers, Jewish refugees, celebrities, and Nazi agents. In 1942, Americans and British arrived, and the port soon saw power grabs, plot twists, and diplomatic intrigue. 'Destination Casablanca' is the riveting and untold history of this glamorous and beloved city, memorialized in the classic film, at the heart of World War II. 2017.The story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with elephants in 1920's Burma transformed him from a carefree…
young man into the charismatic World War II hero known as Elephant Bill. 2014.I am a star: child of the Holocaust
By Inge Auerbacher. 1999
Five days in London: May 1940
By John Lukacs. 2000
The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the…
members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus. 2000.Flak: true stories from the men who flew in World War Two
By Michael Veitch. 2006
Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person…
who flew, or flew in them has at least one extraordinary story to tell. With most of these veterans in their eighties, he knew that it was a matter of urgency to find them now, before their personal stories disappear for ever. So, over the course of a year, Veitch interviewed over fifty former aircrew across Australia, many of whom had never spoken about their experiences before, even to their families. The result is Flak - a collection of vivid, unforgettable stories from RAAF veterans about their experiences of combat in World War II. 2006.Home away from home: the Yanks in Ireland
By Mary Pat Kelly. 1994
Told, in part, by former American soldiers and the people who made them welcome, this is the story of the…
huge American presence in Northern Ireland during World War II, and the key role the North played in winning the war. 1994.Have a little faith: a true story
By Mitch Albom. 2009
The book begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.…
Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival. 2009.At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from…
justice. Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, and what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', and poured through archives across the globe to bring this period of our recent history to life. 2009.How we lived then: a history of everyday life during the Second World War
By Norman Longmate. 1971
Green Beach
By James Leasor. 1975
This is a true-life account of one aspect of the Dieppe raid in 1942. A key objective was to test…
the German radar defences. Dressed in a Canadian uniform was British radar expert, Jack Nissenthal, whose presence was so critical that he was protected by ten sharp-shooting bodyguards. 1975.Hitler's silent partners: Swiss banks, Nazi gold, and the pursuit of justice
By Isabel Vincent. 1997
During World War Two many Jews opened numbered, untraceable accounts with Swiss banks in an attempt to protect their money…
from Hitler's Nazis. What they didn't know was that many of these banks were also doing business with the Nazis. Here the author follows one family in their quest to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. 1997.Hidden children: forgotten survivors of the Holocaust
By André Stein. 1993
Ten stories of children who experienced unbelievable cruelty and unexpected acts of compassion during World War II. These children, who…
were hidden during the war, remained silent in the shadow of those who survived the death camps, but their experiences affected the rest of their lives. Some violence. 1993.Hitler's army: soldiers, Nazis, and war in the Third Reich (part work)
By Omer Bartov. 1991
The author challenges the view that the German Army of the Second World War was an apolitical, professional fighting force,…
having little to do with the Nazi Party. Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. He probes the experience of the average soldier faced with government propaganda and indoctrination, horrific weather conditions and scarcity of food, and a severe military justice system that saw the execution of over fifteen thousand German soldiers. 1991.Ghost soldiers: the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission
By Hampton Sides. 2001
In 1945, 121 U.S. Army Rangers raided the Cabanatuan prisoner of war camp in the Philippines to rescue long-suffering soldiers.…
Depicts the atrocities of war, the conditions endured by the prisoners, and the bravery of the liberators. Bestseller. 2001.Frozen in time: an epic story of survival and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II
By Mitchell Zuckoff. 2013
On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on…
the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished. Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviours. Places us at the centre of a group of valiant airmen fighting to stay alive through 148 days of a brutal Arctic winter until an expedition attempts to bring them to safety. But that is only part of the story. In present-day Greenland, Zuckoff joins the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc. on a dangerous expedition to recover the remains of the lost plane's crew. Bestseller. 2013.