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Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II. From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than 1,300 ASE titles were distributed to service members, with whom they were enormously popular.
Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...
Winston Churchill – The River War, The Gathering Storm; Robert M. Citino – German Way of War, Quest for Decisive Victory, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943; Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force; Carl von Clausewitz – military ...
The Encyclopedia of science fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. D'Ammassa, D. (2004). Encyclopedia of science fiction. N.Y., Facts On File. H. Bruce Franklin (1988), War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination, about war as a theme in US imaginative fiction. James, E. and F. Mendlesohn (2003). The Cambridge companion to science ...
Ashley Bryan, Operation Overlord, Omaha Beach (Artist and Author, Wrote Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace about his experiences ) Isaac Asimov, Philadelphia Navy Yard Naval Air Experimentation Station, United States Army ; J. G. Ballard, interned as a boy in Shanghai (Empire of the Sun)
The Liberation Trilogy is a series of military history books about the United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. The first volume, An Army at Dawn , won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History [ 1 ] and was a New York Times best seller . [ 2 ]
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II is a book about Clarence Smoyer, written by military history author Adam Makos, and published by Ballantine Books in 2019. [1] [2] [3] The book reached number 3 on The New York Times Best Seller list on February 27, 2019. [4] [5]
After World War II, Heinlein believed that a nuclear arms race was an urgent problem. He wrote several works on nuclear warfare in the mid-1940s, such as " The Last Days of the United States ", " How to be a Survivor ", and " Pie from the Sky " but, except for "Back of the Moon," they were rejected by publishers. [ 7 ]