True World War Ii

Weird but True Stories from World War II: Bizarre but Real Tales from the World’s Strangest War dives deep into the hidden, surreal, and astonishing true events that unfolded between 1939 and 1945. From exploding rats and rubber tank armies to psychic infiltrators and bears enlisted in combat, this fascinating book uncovers the strangest corners of World War II history—stories so unbelievable they can only be true. Perfect for history buffs, trivia lovers, and curious readers, this compelling collection brings together ten incredible stories that reveal just how unpredictable and ...

Step back in time and experience World War II through the stories of the people who lived through it. Witness the horror of a prison camp march. Experience the sinking of a US warship. Watch a young French freedom fighter outsmart the Nazis. True Stories of World War II doesn’t just tell you the tales of war. It drops you into the thick of combat.

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.

Dorothy McKibben was the, "front man," for the Manhattan Project in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dorothy and Robert Oppenheimer became life long friends, in this fascinating story. Ester Ahn Kim, a Korean Christian, refused to bow at a shrine. She was taken prisoner and held until the United States liberated Korea after World War II. Her faith was amazing, and God used her greatly during her imprisonment. Philip Johnston and the Navajo Code Talkers. This story takes place in and near my home town, of Flagstaff, Arizona. The United States was losing the war in the Pacific, because the Japanese were...

A fast-paced World War II historical novel based on the true story of holocaust survivors This historical novel, based on a true story, brings World War Two to a new level of reality and a descriptive intensity that will leave the reader spellbound. It brings to life the dramatic experiences of a woman caught between a ruthless government and the will to survive with her children during the last six months of World War 2 in Nazi Germany as she flees the incoming Russian front in the East and right into the carpet bombing in the West. This book brings this war down to a human level in a way ...

Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber’s tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger.

⭐ONE WOMAN. ONE MISSION. ONE DEADLY SECRET⭐ The race is on! An unputdownable espionage thriller about NOOR INAYAT KHAN: an Indian princess turned Allied spy during WWII. A secret so deadly, no one is safe. PRINCESS OF SPIES will grip you to the very end. ★★★★★ ´If you loved The Nightingale or The Alice Network, you won’t put this down.´ ★★★★★ ´Over the course of these pages you will suffer, you will be shocked by the horror and anguish; but you will also discover an ode to the struggle against tyranny, to faith in something that lasts beyond death, and to love....

Mariella yearns for a new life. When she meets Jack, an American GI visiting Rome, they only have one day before he ships off to Japan. Will they find their way back to each other and rekindle their love? War has forced 15-year-old Mariella to grow up too quickly. She is denied an education and obligated to care for her siblings while a horrific childhood tragedy haunts her. Adding to her misery, the Germans occupy Rome, and starvation, brutality, and fear have become the norm. Then she meets Jack, a kind American soldier with an endearing smile, and suddenly, a bright future seems possible...

A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill, she became head of a clandestine army in World War II.

Based on nearly 10 years of research in Italy, France, and Israel, including interviews with Gino Bartali's family, former teammates, a Holocaust survivor Bartali saved, and many others, Road to Valor is the first book ever written about the Italian cycling legend in English and the only book written in any language to fully explore the scope of Bartali's wartime work. An epic tale of courage, comeback, and redemption, it is the untold story of one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century.

This is a true story of the U.S. Army's 103rd Cactus division in an updated and eBook version of the paperback book. It bases the story upon a booklet "Report After Action The Story of the 103d Infantry Division.” written by two former journalists who were part of the 103d. Follow the exploits as the men of the Cactus Division as they march across France pushing the Nazi's back into Germany and then on to victory in Innsbruck, Austria. The men celebrate where the war against the Nazi's ended in May 1945. Critics have said "it will amaze World War II buffs and general interest readers as ...

The true story of the deadliest submarine in World War II and the courageous captain who survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of the enemy. There was one submarine that outfought all other boats in the Silent Service in World War II: the USS Tang. Captain Richard Hetherington O’Kane...

Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War - the one man aboard a sub who makes the critical decisions - taking us closer to the Soviet target than any work on submarine espionage has ever done before. This is the untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine.

In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the US Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it. Naval intelligence officer Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II—all Medal of Honor recipients—from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler’s own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave “Pitch-perfect...

New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII—at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to...

A heart-wrenching Holocaust survival novel — the WWII family saga of a Jewish child hidden during the Holocaust, the righteous among the nations who risked everything to save her, and the fragile hope of redemption after unspeakable loss. To save their daughter, they handed her over to strangers. Now he wants her back — but her heart has found a new home. Warsaw, 1942. With deportations looming and time running out, Aaron and Raizel make an impossible decision: to entrust their seven-year-old daughter, Machale, to a Catholic family. It is a desperate act of love — and perhaps her only...

When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or model might be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society, or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society. This is the story of Aline, Countess of Romanones, a story of courage, beauty and success that is far more exciting than any fictionalized thriller.

The untold adventure of the deadliest sniper in history. You will read about the icy lands of Finland where a few brave Finns opposed thousands of Soviet invaders in an exciting and evocative narrative. Inside the volume you will find: The exciting account of his personal life and his experience of war against the Red Army; The most dangerous missions he successfully faced, described at an exciting pace; All of Simo Häyhä's incredible techniques described in clear detail to illustrate the secrets and methods he used in his missions as an elite sniper; The honours he received, the weapons ...

On October 25, 1944, the Samuel B. Roberts and 12 other vessels stood between Japan’s largest battleship force ever and MacArthur’s transports inside Leyte Gulf. Facing more than 20 Japanese vessels - including the 70,000-ton Yamato - the 1,200-ton Samuel B. Roberts turned immediately to action, churning straight at the enemy in a near-suicidal attempt to deflect the more potent foe and buy time for MacArthur’s forces.