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The Bloody Road to Tunis
2015
NON-FICTIONAs the Afrika Korps withdrew after a bruising defeat at El Alamein, it became apparent that Axis forces would not be able to maintain their hold over Libya. Rommel pulled his troops back to Tunisia, d...
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
1981
MEMOIROne of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
Panzer Battles
1956
MEMOIRMemoir of a senior German staff officer covering tank operations on all fronts, with detailed analysis of armored doctrine and tactics.
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
MEMOIRWar correspondent's firsthand diary of the Marines' desperate first weeks on Guadalcanal — one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of WWII Pacific combat.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
1980
MEMOIRManchester revisits the Pacific battlefields of his youth, weaving personal memoir with historical narrative across Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa.
The Rommel Papers
1953
MEMOIRRommel's own diaries and notes from the North Africa campaign, edited by military historian Liddell Hart after Rommel's death.
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
1992
MEMOIRCelebrated memoir by the author of Flashman about his service as a private soldier fighting Japanese forces in Burma in 1944–45. Gritty, funny, and deeply human.
Berlin
2007
MEMOIRThe Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most...
Going to the Wars
2000
MEMOIRMax Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was 30 he had reported c...
All Hell Let Loose
2011
MEMOIRA magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of p...
Taught to Kill
2011
MEMOIRBy mid-1944, the U.S. Army was facing a critical shortage of the most important commodity in any war, the common foot soldier. Higher-than-expected casualties during the liberation of France had force...
Jacob L. Devers
2015
MEMOIRGeneral Jacob L. "Jake" Devers (1897--1979) was one of only two officers -- the other was Omar C. Bradley -- to command an army group during the decisive campaigns of 1944--1945 that liberated Europe ...
Masters and Commanders
2008
MEMOIRHow far did personality affect the grand strategy of the Second World War? Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts lays bare the four political masters and military commanders of the Western Allies - F...
Napoleon
2014
MEMOIR"First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane"--Title page verso.
Churchill
2018
MEMOIRTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Domi...
The Last King of America
2021
MEMOIRFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his...
Napoleon and Wellington
2001
MEMOIRExplores the relationship between the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington prior to and in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, the most decisive battle of the nineteenth c...
Eisenhower
2014
MEMOIRStephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of ...
Voices of D-Day
1994
MEMOIRIn 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible -- civilians as well as soldiers -- who were involved in one of...