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There are thousands of books written about World War II; therefore, this is not an all-inclusive list. This bibliography also does not aim to include fictional works (see World War II in popular culture). It does not aim to include self-published works, unless there is a very good reason to do so.
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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 published and printed by the Council on Books in Wartime (CBW) and distributed to service members, with whom they were enormously popular.
In the Preface to Volume I, Maj. Gen. E.W. Snedeker, the Marine Corps Assistant Chief of Staff, wrote, "By publishing this operational history in a durable form, it is hoped to make the Marine Corps record permanently available for the study of military personnel, the edification of the general public, and the contemplation of serious scholars of military history."
The support of William Warder Norton, chairman of the CWB's executive committee and president of the publishing house W. W. Norton, was instrumental for the project to be realized. Apart from the Army and Navy (through chief librarian Isabel DuBois), over seventy publishers and a dozen printing houses collaborated on the ASEs. To appease some ...
Scorched Earth (Rosen book) The Second World War (book) Shadow of Suribachi; Shattered Sword; Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine; Soldiers and Slaves; The Splendid and the Vile; Squadron 303 (book) Stalin's Missed Chance; Stalingrad (Beevor book) Stopped at Stalingrad; The Storm of War; Strange Defeat; Suicide (Suvorov ...
Manion's International Auction House was an online auction website, and was one of the world's largest online auction houses specializing in historical military collectibles. Before its demise, the auction house had over 50,000 members, and over 20,000 auction items per month. [1] Its headquarters was located in Kansas City, Kansas. [2]
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas was the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, called by the Germans "The White Rabbit" of World War II.He was given responsibilities by the British government in occupied Vichy France because he had lived in France during the interwar years and was fluent in French.