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  • Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II

    de Strahan Jerry ...
    Andrew Jackson Higgins is perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. He designed the LCVP (landing craft vehicle, personnel) that played such a vital role in the invasion of Normandy as well as the first effective tank landing craft. During the war, New Orleans–based Higgins Industries produced over twenty thousand boats, including lightning-fast PT boats and the twenty-seven-foot ... Leer más

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  • Freedom's Forge

    How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

    de Arthur Herman ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR“A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street JournalFreedom’s Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen—General Motors automobile magnate William “Big Bill” Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser—helped corral, cajole, and inspire ... Leer más

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  • Half American

    The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

    **• Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction• A New York Times Notable Book• A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more!The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont“Matthew F. Delmont’s book is filled ... Leer más

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  • The Fighting Bunch

    The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution

    de Chris DeRose ...
    New York Times –Bestselling Author: The true story of the men who brought their overseas combat experience to wage war against a corrupt political machine in their Tennessee hometown in 1946."Doggedly researched and briskly narrated, this rousing chronicle testifies to the importance of free and fair elections."― Publishers WeeklyBill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation ... Leer más

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  • Valiant Women

    The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

    National Bestseller * Goodreads Choice Awards FinalistA groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies’ victory, hailed as "an ingenious look at WWII” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)Includes a chapter on the famed Six Triple Eight, America's all-black, all-women battalion led by Charity ... Leer más

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  • Freedom Flyers:The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

    The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

    de J. Todd Moye ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to ... Leer más

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  • The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941

    The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor

    de Paul Dickson ...
    "A must-read book that explores a vital pre-war effort [with] deep research and gripping writing." — Washington TimesIn The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941, Paul Dickson tells the dramatic story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II.In September 1939, when Nazi ... Leer más

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  • Dawn of Infamy

    A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor

    A real-life WWII mystery that evokes "nautical adventure books like Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea" (Michigan War Studies Review).As the Pearl Harbor attack began, a US cargo ship a thousand miles away in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean mysteriously vanished along with her crew. What happened, and why?On December 7, 1941, even as ... Leer más

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  • Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles

    America’s First Black Paratroopers

    They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much ... Leer más

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  • A Call to Arms

    Mobilizing America for World War II

    de Maury Klein ...
    The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge ... Leer más

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  • The Watchdog

    How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two

    ***WINNER OF THE 2024 HARRY S. TRUMAN BOOK AWARD*The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman.**Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The ... Leer más

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  • Rickover

    Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. NavyÆs nuclear propulsion program and revived his career, being retiredùinvoluntarilyùsome thirty years later in early 1982. He was not only the architect ... Leer más

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