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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
An end of war	Ken Tout	After D-Day in 1944 British troops in Normandy had been encouraged to believe that the war would be over by Christmas of that year. The German army in Normandy had indeed been destroyed but by Christ…	OL16687250W
The Guns at Last Light	Rick Atkinson	This book is the magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II. It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a stag…	OL16804185W
Hundred days	Nick Lloyd	"In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued-- known as the Hundred Days Campaign-- saw so…	OL19704227W
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand	Robert M. Citino	"By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: what kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where so…	OL19752172W
Monty's men	Buckley, John	"Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler…	OL19974421W
Hell's Angels	Jay A. Stout	During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany's ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished. The Hell's Angels. At the outbreak of World War II, the United States was in no…	OL19991336W
The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941	James Holland	" In The Rise of Germany, the first of a major new three-part history of World War II in the West, he weaves together the experiences of dozens of individuals, from civilians and infantrymen, to line…	OL20012520W
Battle Hardened	Craig S. Chapman	xxv, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm	OL20201942W
Armageddon	Max Hastings	Armageddon is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastings--one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan …	OL2439632W
Hell hawks!	Thomas D. Jones,Robert F. Dorr	Hell Hawks! is the story of a band of young American pilots and their gritty, close-quarters fight against Hitler's vaunted military. They were the 365th Fighter Group, three squadrons of fighter-bom…	OL2589362W
None that go return	Don Farr	"Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, the four subjects of this book are, for their social class and generation, not untypical examples of the consequences of the…	OL26186419W
The American GI in Europe in World War II	Joseph Erich Kaufmann	Written in the words of the men who were there, these volumes tell of the event of D-Day, starting from the background before the United States entered the war to the landing in Normandy to finally t…	OL2643446W
War As I Knew It	George S. Patton	Adored by many, loathed by some, General George S. Patton, Jr., was one of the most brilliant military strategists in history. War As I Knew It is the personal and candid account of his celebrated, r…	OL3146574W
Citizen Soldiers	Stephen E. Ambrose	From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, 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 b…	OL478552W
The Victors	Stephen E. Ambrose	From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of World War II in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. The a…	OL478592W
The Boys' Crusade	Paul Fussell	The Boys' Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell's unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman's experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author's ow…	OL478874W
Battling buzzards	Gerald Astor	The Few and the BraveConvinced by 1943 that the assault upon Nazi-held Europe would yield swiftly to elite troops, the U.S. Army created parachute regimental combat teams. Drawing on daring volunteer…	OL480846W
Unless Victory Comes	Gene Garrison,Patrick Gilbert	On December 16, 1944, Gene Garrison spent a terrifying 19th birthday crammed into a muddy foxhole near the German border in the Saar. He listened helplessly while wounded comrades screamed in pain wh…	OL5769991W
Fighting in the Great Crusade	Gregory A. Daddis	"Fighting in the Great Crusade combines the terse clarity of George E. Schwend's World War II combat journals with Gregory Daddis's expert commentary on the greater context of that conflict. The resu…	OL5951610W
Ghosts of the ETO	Jonathan Gawne	x, 342 p. : 26 cm	OL60990W