This book provides an in-depth analysis of Australia's strategic decision-making and military leadership during the Second World War. D.M. Horner explores how Australia coordinated its defence strategy with Allied powers, examining the challenges, political pressures, and high-level command structures that shaped the nation's wartime policies from 1939 to 1945. Through detailed research and arc…
August 1995 will mark the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of the Pacific War. This book brings to life all the famous, as well as little-known, battles and locations, and the brilliant island-hopping strategy that, by 1945, won back the Philippines and brought a striking force to Japan's doorstep at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Black-and-white photographs, full-color maps.
Robert Maddox's one-volume history of the causes, conduct, and consequences of World War II goes beyond traditional military and diplomatic accounts to present the era in its broader context. Special emphasis is devoted to the United States and the impact of the war on American society. The role of women and blacks in the labor force and armed services, industrial mobilization, and propaganda a…
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…
The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for over a century and continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prize proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the modern era …
The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written. First published in hardcover on the battle's fiftieth anniversary in 1994 and drawing on materials not previously available, it blends history with human drama to give a real sense of what happened--despit…
In the spring of 1944, 120,000 Allied soldiers crossed the English Channel in the most ambitious invasion force ever assembled. Rangers, paratroopers, infantry, and armored personnel, these soldiers--some who had just cut their teeth in Africa and Sicily and some who were brand-new to war--joined a force aimed at the heart of Europe and Hitler’s defenses. On the morning of June 6, D-Day began…
From the savage dogfights of WW2 to the high-tech missile duels of today, those who wage war in the skies and the machines they fly are a breed apart. Pushing themselves to the cutting edge of speed and skill, their battleground is among the clouds. Here are true stories of aerial warfare, as told by those who were there. Here are dozens of interviews from combat veterans who have experienc…
Japan's Yomiuri newspaper has undertaken a bold project, the first of its kind in the Japanese intellectual community since the end of World War II. Yomiuri seriously probes the outbreak and prolongation of the wars of the Showa Era and examines the responsibility of many Japanese political leaders and high-ranking military officers, including some not tried in the Tokyo Tribunal, such as Princ…
Here is a sideways look at World War II in the Pacific, which gives an exciting view of how the Japanese could have won. Expert military historians examine what would have happened if, for example if the Japanese had conquered India and knocked Britain out of the Pacific War; More...or if Japanese landings in Australia had severed the strategic link between the US and its Southwest Pacific base…