books about: 1943-1944     books:     1943-1944      War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 Iris Origo David R Godine, 1984 Unforgettable "Greater than the sum of its parts" accurately describes this remarkable diary set in Southern Tuscany during World War II. Written as a daily record during the tumult of war,Origo does not dwell on emotional reactions to the horror around them. What comes through is ...             The German Army 1939-45 (5) : Western Front 1943-45 (Men-At-Arms Series, 336) Nigel Thomas Osprey Publishing, 2000 Interesting Study of A Major Force This work is a splendid example of the new emphasis of the publisher on producing comprehensive works in a handy cheap format compared with the earlier broad brush treatments which covered too much in too little detail. The new emphasis is on sets covering various ...             Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War And The Origins Of The Soviet-american Rivalry,1943-1949 Andre Gerolymatos Basic Books, 2004 An interesting book with several flaws The Greek Civil war that began after the Second World War is still being felt today. This book explores it, beggining with the OSS intervention in Greece and the resistance to Nazism in Greece and follows the conflict up to modern times through interviews with normal ...             Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 Erica Fischer Alyson Books, 1998 Flawed real females makes compelling reading I liked this book. Some of the pictures, I really wish I could blow up and have as prints in my room. The story gives a lot of insight into that era. The Amazon criticism is that the author really doesn't focus much on the lesbian aspect, instead focusing more on the ...             Scorched Earth: The Russian-German War 1943-1944 Paul Carell Schiffer Publishing, 1994 Not too biased I read the book with the other's reviews in mind that this book is fairly biased in favor of German. However, when I read, I didn't feel the bias, if it exists, is stronger than that of a typical book describing eastern front from German's perspective. Very nice book ...             The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943--June 1944 Robert Katz Simon & Schuster, 2004 A Great Public Service Since my first visit to Italy, and especially Rome, in 1949, I have been fascinated by its people, history and culture, both historical and contemporary. There seems to be no end to the amount one can learn about Italy; almost daily new facts arise that bear not only ...             History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 9: Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, January 1943-June ... Samuel Eliot Morison University of Illinois Press, 2001 History of United States Naval Operations in World War Two When I was a pre-teen, in the 50s, a friend of mine's father had served in the submarine service in the Pacific & had the complete set. He let me read them and that started me on a life-long fascination with history. They are finally back in print and, after over 45 ...             The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) Rick Atkinson Henry Holt and Co., 2007 Another forgotten corner of the war This is the first book I have read by the author Rick Atkinson it will not be the last. A very compressive look at the Italian campaign of World War Two a bloody mindless war of grueling conflict; that if you are unfamiliar with the Italian campaign reads more like an ...             Krazy and Ignatz, 1943-1944: "He Nods in Quiescent Siesta" (Krazy Kat) George Herriman Fantagraphics Books, 2008 Koncluding The Komplete Krazy Kat Kolor Sundays! Krazy and Ignatz 1943-1944 covers the last two years of Herriman's masterpiece. With this volume, Fantagraphics and its precursor Eclipse will have reprinted the entire 29-year run of the Krazy Kat Sundays! Like Charles Schulz, George Herriman was a cartoonist to the very end. Aside from ...             Into the Fire: Ploesti, The Most Fateful Mission of World War II Duane Schultz Westholme Publishing, 2007 Excellent book, tragic mission I read about this book on the Ace of Spades blog and decided to give it a whirl. Glad I did! It is pretty well paced and opens with the sobering account of the burial of the recently-recovered remains of one of the raid's more flamboyant casualties that is ...             The Rape of Serbia: The British Role in Tito's Grab for Power 1943-1944 Michael Lees Harcourt, 1990 Serbian Chetnik heroes Michael Lees had a unique prespective on the wars which raged in former Yugoslavia in WWII. As a British SOE officer assigned to work with the Serbian Chetnik guerillas, he witnessed first hand their military efforts at disrupting German supply lines and in attacking ...             2nd Tactical Air Force Volume 1: Spartan to Normandy June 1943-June 1944 Chris Thomas Classic Publications, 2004 Ground by the Allies on D-Day and Beyond At the beginning of World War II the Germans showed the world how a mixed arms unit of aircraft, tanks, artillery and infantry working togeather could smash anything that stood in its path. Unfortunately the British and the Americans were somewhat slow to learn such ...             Ploesti: The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943, Revised Edition (Brassey's Aviation Classics) James Dugan, Carroll Stewart Potomac Books Inc., 2002 Memorable Account of a Legendary Air Raid of WW2 I first read this book in 1964 when I was fifteen & never forgot its description of the battle which one squadron of B-24s (flying so low that at least one plane returned with corn stalks stuck in its rear wheel well) fought at machine gun range with a Nazi armored ...             Return to Base: Memoirs of a B-17 Copilot Kimbolton, England, 1943-1944 Jesse Richard Pitts Howell Press Inc., 2004 Return to Base: Memoirs of a B-17 Copilot Kimbolton, England, 1943-1944 Jesse Pitts was one of the relatively few aviators who survived and blazed a pathway for the successful Allied air campaign against Nazi Germany during the early days of American involvement in WWII. His account in this book brings to life the heroism of those who ...             All the President's Men Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 1974 IT COULD NOT HAPPEN NOW!!!! "All The President's Men" (2 DISC) is a classic film and book about an important period in American Political History. The Reporters, The Director and his Actors should feel proud. Two intrepid reports expose the rampant corruption within the Whitehouse and bring down ...          products you might be interested in search for books ground-air, liberation, men-at-arms, russian-german, sicily-salerno-anzio, soviet-american      toavi.com    web we recommend Another forgotten corner of the war randomly chosen book: lechts und rinks. gedichte, statements, peppermints.