[PDF] Great Land Sea And Air Battles Of World War Ii eBook

Author : Martin Marix Evans
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Battles
ISBN : 9781840373875

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The major land, sea and air battles of WWII are described with concise data on more than fifty confrontations. Maps, statistical information on the opposing forces and their commanders are included, together with suggestions for further reading, museums and related places of interest. The book is structured so that you can follow events in a chronological order on the Western and Eastern Fronts of the war in Europe and also in the Pacific Theatre. This is a perfect introduction to the major actions of the last World War.

Author : John MacDonald
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780785830979

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Modern computer technology meets the history of warfare in this book, the Great Battles of WWII. A stunning new look at the most spectacular campaigns of World War II, this book uses incredible computer graphics to recreate every detail of the most significant battles and strategies. Topography and troop strength, illustrations and maps of actions carried out are presented with the latest technology down to the smallest detail.

Author : Saul David
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 031653465X

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From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them. With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach southward across the Pacific and was renowned for the fanaticism and brutality of its fighters, who refused to surrender, even when faced with insurmountable odds. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa. The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the largest of the Pacific War and the greatest air-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops from Seattle, Leyte in the Philippines, and ports around the world. The campaign lasted for 83 blood-soaked days, as the fighting plumbed depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he had witnessed, referred to the fighting as the "crucible of Hell." Okinawan civilians died in the tens of thousands: some were mistaken for soldiers by American troops; but as the US Marines spearheading the invasion drove further onto the island and Japanese defeat seemed inevitable, many more civilians took their own lives, some even murdering their own families. In just under three months, the world had changed irrevocably: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died; the war in Europe ended; America's appetite for an invasion of Japan had waned, spurring President Truman to use other means -- ultimately atomic bombs -- to end the war; and more than 250,000 servicemen and civilians on or near the island of Okinawa had lost their lives. Drawing on archival research in the US, Japan, and the UK, and the original accounts of those who survived, Crucible of Hell tells the vivid, heart-rending story of the battle that changed not just the course of WWII, but the course of war, forever.