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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.
The following year The Times Literary Supplement (3 August 1951) commented on this volume that "as a chronicler of war, Mr Churchill has, hitherto, been disappointing" but The Hinge of Fate was "a breathtaking book" and that in its pages Churchill was "a romantic, as immortally young as the hero of Treasure Island" but had "massive common sense ...
Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author.His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was used as source material for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which he is portrayed by ...
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II. New York: Free Press. ISBN 9780684836423. Reprint edition: Tobin, James (2000). Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-86469-3. "US 36". Highway Explorer – Indiana Highway Ends. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013
World War II is a series of books published by Time-Life that chronicles the Second World War. Each book focused on a different topic, such as the resistance, spies, the home front but mainly the battles and campaigns of the conflict.
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II was written by military historian Adam Makos with military writer Larry Alexander and published in 2012 by Berkley Books. [1] [2] It has 400 pages, [2] and includes photographs, notes and a bibliography. [3] There is no index. [1]
The works were first published by the Historical Division, Department of the Army, from March 28, 1950 called the Office of the Chief of Military History and from June 15, 1973, the Center of Military History. They are in a large format, 7¼” x 10”, with green cloth covers and no dust jackets.
World War II book stubs (1 C, 106 P) Pages in category "Books about World War II" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.