Book Tag: world war ii

Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life

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Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, toil under MacArthur in the Philippines, and involvement in D-Day.

With the Old Breed

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Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time. Eugene B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a classic memoir that has left an indelible mark…

The Wild Blue

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Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war.

Road to Huertgen: Forest in Hell

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Road to Huertgen-Forest in Hell chronicles the 1944 combat experiences of U.S. Army Lieutenant Paul Boesch. The setting is the Huertgen Forest, a 1,300 square mile, densely wooded, hilly region along the German-Belgian border.

Citizen Soldiers

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The inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.

The Rape of Nanking

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The story of Nanking from three perspectives: the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese civilians, and of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city.

The Bedford Boys

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Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia - population just 3,000 in 1944 - died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. This is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind.

Pegasus Bridge

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This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed.