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The Marines in World War II
Michael E Haskew · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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2016 will mark the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that pushed the United States into World War II and sent thousands of US Marines to fight and die on tiny islands half a world away. Today, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Tarawa are household names that hold legendary status on the Marines'... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
ELIZABETH ROSNER · Counterpoint
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"Survivor Café takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer As firsthand... |
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Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
Ben Kiernan · Oxford University Press
Pages: 656
Format: Print book
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For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited... |
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82nd Airborne: Normandy 1944
Stephen Smith · Casemate
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
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On August 15, 1942, the 82nd Airborne became the US Army's first airborne division. Commanded by Major General Matthew B. Ridgway, they trained exhaustively for their new role, which involved parachuting from C-47s and insertion by Waco CG-4A gliders.In April 1943 the 82nd was shipped... |
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The Best of New York Archives: Selections from the Magazine, 2001-2011
New York State Archives Partnership Trust · Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
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For readers interested in uncovering the history of the Empire State, The Best of New York Archives highlights some of the most popular articles of the unique, award-winning publication--as told through the records of the men and women who made it. Home to some of the United States'... |
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An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Peter Fritzsche · Basic Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In An Iron... |
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Delaware Bible Records, Volume 1
Donald Odell Virdin · Heritage Books
Pages: 1
Format: Book
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These Bibles date mainly from the late 1700's through the early 1900's, and frequently cover three or more generations. In addition to the usual marriage, birth, and death information, newspaper clippings, hand-written notes attached to or written on the pages, and personal letters... |
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City of sedition : the history of New York during the Civil War
John Strausbaugh · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money,... |
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