Liberation provides a detailed historical account of the Allied advance following the D-Day landings, focusing particularly on the liberation of France and the dramatic struggle for Paris during World War II. Written by military historian Martin Blumenson, the book explores battlefield strategies, key military operations, and the political tensions surrounding the French Resistance and Allied l…
Now, drawing on recently declassified American and British top-secret documents, New York Times bestselling historian John Costello reveals how major strategic and diplomatic miscalculations by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill together with the military blunders committed by General MacArthur set the stage for Japan's successful attacks on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field. For the fir…
For more than a half century scholars and nonscholars alike have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb, but rarely have they studied the American plan to invade Japan, the alternative to using the bomb to end the Second World War. Widely held beliefs about the strength of Japanese forces and the projected loss of American lives have been invoked to justify the decision to drop the bomb…
Perang Dunia II yang sebelumnya telah berlangsung di Eropa, dan bertambah luas dengan api yang membakar Asia-Pasifik. Melalui buku ini akan diketahui bagaimana Jepang pada bulan-bulan pertama peperangan ini berhasil menggulung Sekutu, dan menguasai wilayah yang luas dan kaya termasuk Indonesia. Rincian jalannya peperangan Pasifik ini disajikan satu tahap ke tahapan lainnya ; bagaimana titik bal…
Although 50 years have passed since the end of World War II, there has as yet been no definitive history of that conflict. Existing histories have raised as many questions as they Did Roosevelt have foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbour? Could the Allies have invaded France before 1944? Might bombing the Auschwitz railway have impeded the course of the Holocaust? John Keegan here assesse…
This book is packed with intriguing questions and answers, thought provoking quotes and fascinating "did-you-know?" Test your knowledge of the war's strategy, battles, spies, weapons, and commanders or learn new facts about the war and its consequences.
This is an account of Japan's submarine war against Australia during 1942-44. It is a story of a campaign which was far more serious and extensive than anyone in Australia knew at the time. Nearly 40 war patrols were made to Australian waters: Sydney was attacked by midget submarines, Sydney and Newcastle were shelled, spy planes flew over Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart, 17 ships were sunk off th…
From Hiroshima to Glasnost offers Paul Nitze's reflections on the issues he has faced, the decision he has made, the people he has known, and the presidents he has served in his almost fifty years inside the top echelons of Washington policy circles. In the detailed an forthright manner for which he is famed, Paul Nitze discusses the major events of his illustrations career: The formation of th…
William Shirer, the acclaimed journalist whose "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" quickly became, and still remains, the standard work on Nazi Germany, was a masterful chronicler of the events in Europe that led up to World War II. ""This is Berlin"" gathers together two-and-a-half years worth of his daily CBS radio broadcasts that described the menacing steps Germany took toward World War …