Best World War 2 Stories - April 2024

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon

The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positionsOn the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. Despite being vastly outnumbered, they were told to hold their position "at all costs." Throughout the day, the platoon repulsed three large German assaults in a fierce day-long b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306814404
• ASIN: 0306814404
• ISBN: 0306814404
• Brand: Kershaw, Alex
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All ... the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II

• ASIN: B001UID8DM
• ASIN: B001UID8DM
• Brand: Dutton Caliber
• Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

Beyond The Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

This is the inspiring true story of Captain Robert Trimble, who laid his life on the line to rescue hundreds of World War II POWs, including women and children, on the Eastern Front. Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-prisoners of war were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food, shelter, or supplies, the POWs were an army of dying men. As the Red Army advanced across Poland, the Nazi prison camps were liberated. In defiance of humanity, the freed Allied prisoners were discarded without aid. The Soviets viewed POWs as cowards, and regarded all refugees a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425276058
• ASIN: 0425276058
• ISBN: 0425276058
• Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

Best Little Stories from World War II: More than 100 true stories

The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war.Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil.These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like:Lieutenant ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 140224357X
• UPC: 760789230868
• ASIN: 140224357X
• ISBN: 140224357X
• Brand: Brand: Cumberland House
• Manufacturer: Cumberland House

And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II

In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them. For more than half a century these women’s experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 140003129X
• ASIN: 140003129X
• ISBN: 140003129X
• Brand: Monahan, Evelyn M./ Neidel-Greenlee, Rosemary
• Manufacturer: Anchor

If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building.Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804100039
• ASIN: 0804100039
• ISBN: 0804100039
• Brand: Wilson, George
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Story of World War II: Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commanger

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they ha... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743227182
• ASIN: 0743227182
• ISBN: 0743227182
• Brand: Brand: Simon Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

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• ASIN: B0035II95C
• ASIN: B0035II95C
• Manufacturer: Twelve

Eyewitness to World War II: Unforgettable Stories and Photographs From History's Greatest Conflict

• ASIN: 1426209703
• ASIN: 1426209703
• ISBN: 9781426209703
• Brand: National Geographic Society
• Manufacturer: National Geographic

Surviving The Forest: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor

Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic village, they quickly understood they were wrong and their happiness came to a brutal end. The family had to flee their house and find shelter in a neighboring Ghetto... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NDYGQ45
• ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater

The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you that at 19, you will never see again. The pain and shock is one thing. But now you have to tell her, from 5000 miles away.-- 'So I had a hard two months, I guess. I kept mostly to myself. I wouldn't talk to people. I tried to figure out what the hell I was going to do when I got home. How was I going to tell my mother this? You know what I mean?' ~Jimmy Butt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0996480005
• ASIN: 0996480005
• ISBN: 0996480005
• Manufacturer: Matthew A. Rozell

World War Z (Unrated)

• ASIN: B00EMJBVAI
• ASIN: B00EMJBVAI

No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II

Discover an extraordinary tale of friendship and survival between a man and a dog in World War II in this young readers' adaptation of the New York Times bestseller No Better Friend.No Better Friend tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who sensed danger--warning her fellow prisoners of imminent attacks and protecting them from brutal beatings. Frank and Judy's friendship, an unbreakabl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316344672
• ASIN: 0316344672
• ISBN: 0316344672
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

• ASIN: B003WUYPPG
• ASIN: B003WUYPPG
• Manufacturer: Random House

Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific: The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII

Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific tells the incredible story of America's little known "war within a war" -- US submarine warfare during World War II.Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered World War II in December 1941 with only 44 Naval submarines -- many of them dating from the 1920s. With the Pacific battleship fleet decimated after Pearl Harbor, it was up to the feisty and heroic sailors aboard the US submarines to stop the Japanese invasion across the Pacific.Including breakouts highlighting submarine life and unsung African-American and femal... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545425581
• ASIN: 0545425581
• ISBN: 9780545425582
• Brand: Scholastic Press
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

Best Little Stories from World War II

BEHIND THE GREAT POWERS, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World

• UPC: 13905134

The Forgotten 500 : The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II

In 1944, the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen who had been trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this

• UPC: 10076289
• Rating: 3.833

A Higher Call : An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

Relates the true story of two World War II airmen, one American and one German, who put aside the conflict and helped each other to safety in the wake of a damaged aircraft and describes

• UPC: 22750375
• Rating: 4.5

Eyewitness to World War II : Unforgettable Stories From History's Greatest Conflict

Here is the story of the greatest challenge a generation of Americans had ever faced. The unforgettable saga of World War II is told through the words of those who lived it-both on the battlefield

• UPC: 625914494

Remember World War II : Kids Who Survived Tell Their Stories

Allows readers to understand World War II, not as seen through the eyes of soldiers, but through the eyes of children who survived the bombings, the blackouts, the hunger, the fear, and the loss of

• UPC: 44371558
• Rating: 3.0

If You Survive : From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

The author describes his experiences in World War II from basic training to the Battle of the Bulge and shares his observations on

• UPC: 321779
• Rating: 4.4

Voices of the Pacific : Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

From the New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call comes an unflinching, brutal, and relentless firsthand chronicle of United States Marine Corps' actions in the Pacific during World War 2. Following

• UPC: 26350046

The Nazi Titanic : The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II

The little-known story of the most intriguing ship ever to set

• UPC: 49526899

Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific : The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII

The story of America's little known war-within-a war -- that of the "silent service" -- U.S. submarine warfare during World War

• UPC: 51799145
• Rating: 3.0

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors : The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

Based on eyewitness accounts, declassified Navy documents, and interviews and correspondence with veterans, this epic account chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of

• UPC: 3164841
• Rating: 4.5

The Best Years Of Our Lives VHS 1946 B&W Post WW2 Story Part 1 and 2

• UPC: 321612693698
• Category: VHS Tapes
• Price: 25 USD

WW2 Men at War The Best War Stories of All Time Reference Book

• UPC: 361760306696
• Category: Books
• Price: 10 USD

T-34 Best Tank WW2 Story Book USSR Soviet Russian Army

• UPC: 123661238892
• Category: Russia
• Price: 29 USD