In July 1944, Operation Cobra broke the stalemate in Normandy and sent the Allies racing across France. The Allied commanders ignored Paris in their planning for this campaign, considering that the risk of intense street fighting and heavy casualties outweighed the city's strategic importance. However, Charles de Gaulle persuaded the Allied commanders to take direct action to liberate his natio…
The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940, Lt Gen, Richard O’Connor launched what amounted to a British ‘Blitzkrieg’. In Less than two months the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th A…
One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall. It took three major offensives and more than 30 bloody days of struggle to finally take Caen. In the process the city was controversially dev…
In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, aga…
James Herriot kembali menceritakan berbagai pengalamannya sebagai dokter hewan di pedesaan Yorkshire. James, yang baru pulang bertugas dari Perang Dunia II, sekarang berperang melawan penyakit dan kecelakaan yang menimpa binatang-binatang di Skeldale serta padang-padang sekitarnya.
Pesawat B29 menjadi momok mengerikan bagi rakyat Jepang selama Perang Dunia II. Pesawat yang sama kemudian membawa bom atom yang meluluh-lantakkan Hiroshima dan mengubah sejarah untuk selamanya. Inilah kisah kesaksian enam warga penyintas dari tragedi yang mengakhiri perang dunia kedua, saat dijatuhkannya bom atom di Hiroshima, Jepang. Buku dari pemenang Pulitzer-Prize, John Hersey, ini merupak…
Berbicara tentang Perang Dunia II pasti tidak jauh dari pembahasan soal Hitler dan Jerman, aliansi Sekutu dan Poros, dan juga bom atom yang dijatuhkan Amerika Serikat ke dua kota besar di Jepang. B Buku ini secara garis besar membicarakan sejarah umum yang terjadi selama Perang Dunia II di berbagai belahan dunia. Terkhususnya yang dalam kurun waktu enam tahun selama berlangsungnya Perang Dun…
Di tengah jatuhnya kekuasaan Jerman Nazi, Marianne von Lingenfels kembali ke puri keluarga suaminya yang dahulu kala berdiri tegak sebagai benteng kukuh tapi kini telah rusak seiring berlangsungnya Perang Dunia Kedua. Sebagai janda dari anggota gerakan perlawanan yang dieksekusi setelah gagal melancarkan rencana pembunuhan Adolf Hitler pada tanggal 20 Juli 1940, Marianne bertekad untuk menepati…
Anna's mother had promised to buy her a new winter coat when the war was over. But when the World War II ended, there were still no coats to be had. There was hardly any food, and no one had any money. Things seem hopeless until Anna's mother thinks of a very unusual way to get Anna a new winter coat at last.
Bringing a dramatic moment of World War II to vivid life.