Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+4415 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742067 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713180 On October 25, 1944, the Samuel B. Roberts, along with the other twelve vessels comprising its unit, stood between Japans largest battleship force ever sent to sea and MacArthurs transports inside Leyte Gulf. Faced with the surprise appearance of more than twenty Japanese battleships, cruisers, and destroyers the Samuel B. Roberts turned immediately to action with six other ships. The ship churned straight at the enemy in a near-suicidal attempt to deflect the more potent foe, allow the small aircraft carriers to escape, and buy time for MacArthurs forces. Of 563 destroyers constructed during WWII, the Samuel B. Roberts was the only one sunk. The men who survived faced a horrifying three-day nightmare in the sea, where they battled a lack of food and water, scorching sun and numbing nighttime cold, and natures most feared adversary--sharks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738274 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704401 Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the funny tanks which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang; and Captain Johnny Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a creeping barrage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743604 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738275 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711354 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711459 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732019 An authoritative chronicle, drawing on new research on World War I, traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute narrative that examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738344 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696643 Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712358 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682846 This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742002 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695900 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712684 Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Trumans 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738937 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704089 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730810 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675763 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696194 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738255 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694786 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712318 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743324 In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mount an expedition to solve the mystery of the vanished plane and recover the remains of the lost planes crew. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738294 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695923 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743596 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734530 Traces the crisis period leading up to Americas entry into World War II, describing the nations polarized interventionist and isolationist factions as represented by the government, in the press, and on the streets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738283 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706011 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738289 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736307 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696143 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697524 History has been kind to the American generals of World War II and less kind to the generals of the wars that followed. Setting out to explain why, Thomas E. Ricks cites a widening gulf between performance and accountability. Then, scores of American generals were relieved of command simply for not being good enough. Today, as one American colonel said bitterly, A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738285 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695888 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731419 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712338 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739122 A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of The Greatest Generation reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704493 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713083 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743603 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738267 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738963 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738263 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1654465 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735843 Examines the worlds mistakes throughout history, including military insurgencies, inflation and devaluation of currency, financial disasters, ecological collapses, pandemics and epidemics, and the rise of radical political minorities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682821 General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712360 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682883 The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713125 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695921 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738282 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738288 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743597 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738284 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695887 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713893 Recounts epic battles, standoffs, and skirmishes from antiquity through modern times, profiling the great men and women, including St. Moses the Black, Tango Mike-Mike, and Cyrus the Great. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711906 Documents the story of a small group of scientists who applied intellectual strategies to battle techniques and revolutionized the process of waging wars, citing the contributions of future Nobel winner Patrick Blackett. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704120 NPR looks back at one of America?s most controversial wars with a collection featuring accounts from the various players including soldiers, government officials, protesters, and those who lived in Vietnam during the war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738281 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738325 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733283 Draws on new archival research to examine Pope Pius XIs effort to reject Nazism, discussing how he enlisted the assistance of John La Farge, a virtually unknown American Jesuit, to craft a papal encyclical condemning Hitlers campaign against the Jews. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712750 Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738280 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738286 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695890 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696355 The story of the Battle of Samar and the sacrifice of the USS Samuel B. Roberts documents how the destroyer and its small unit confronted formidable Japanese forces to secure the region for MacArthurs transports inside Leyte Gulf. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684859 The story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the western front in 1918. Delving deep into the motivations, horrific experiences, and ultimate fates of the Harvard-educated quintet, Five lieutenants presents a unique, timeless, and fascinating account of citizen soldiers at was and of the price these extraordinary men paid while earnestly giving all they had in an effort to end the war to end all wars. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579047 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705387 In the spring of 1966, the war was still popular and the draftees of Charlie Company saw their service as a rite of passage. But by December 1967, when the company rotated home, only 30 men were not casualties--and they were among the first vets of the war to be spit on and harassed by war protestors as they arrived back the U.S. In this book, the author examines the experiences of a company from the only division in the Vietnam era to train and deploy together in similar fashion to WWIIs famous 101st Airborne Division. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579048 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672365 Recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and communist sympathizers--most notably Harry Dexter White--to lead Japan into war against the United States, proposing Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731788 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453403 On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, more than eighty unarmed United States soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to an SS unit near the small crossroads town of Malmedy, Belgium. Although more than thirty men lived to tell of the massacre, exactly what took place that day remains mired in controversy. The author spent fifteen years researching original sources and interviewing more than one hundred witnesses to uncover the truth behind the Malmedy massacre, and the result is riveting. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730799 The Allied invasion of Europe was the most anticipated event of WWII. In this powerful graphic history, Wayne Vansant tells the intricate story of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord from the perspective of both the Allied and Axis forces--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1536520 A peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about Americas thirty-fourth president. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656415 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684659 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714938 Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. Tracing the interaction between food and strategy, on both the military and home fronts, Collingham demonstrates how access to food was a driving force within Nazi policy and contributed to the decision to murder hundreds of thousands of useless eaters, and brings to light the fact that famine was not only caused by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, but was also the result of Allied mismanagement and neglect, particularly in India, Africa and China. She also shows how the war subsequently promoted the pervasive influence of American food habits and tastes in the post-war world.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576445 Traces the stories of six prisoners on both sides of World War II, including a pair of European expatriates who were released into the dangerous Philippine jungles, a U.S. citizen who was confined in a detention camp and a Japanese soldier who hid in the Guam jungles until 15 years after the war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668500 For sixty years, World War II has been seen in black and white, in newsreels, magazines, and books. Color photography was still in its infancy when the United States entered World War II. With the war on, the short supplies of color film stock made color photographs and films even more rare. Now, specially commissioned research has unearthed a remarkable color record, much of which has never been published before. The authors have scoured the National Archives, as well as other public and private collections, to find over 300 startling color images of America at war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668241 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1594830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1535832 Two men came to personify generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery for the British and Erwin Rommel for the Germans. In the span of a few years, they fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theaters of war. Ever since, historians have assessed their leadership, personalities, and skill. Born four years apart, the two men followed a remarkably similar trajectory. Military historian Peter Caddick-Adams explores their lives, beginning with their provincial upbringing and the brutal trench fighting of World War I--where both nearly died. Obsessed with fitness and training, the future field marshals emerged with glowing records. They taught in staff colleges, wrote infantry textbooks, and fought each other as divisional commanders in 1940 before taking charge of their respective armies as the war raged on. This first comparative biography of these two soldiers explores how each was made by their war leaders, Churchill and Hitler, and how their strategies permeate down to todays armies.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624838 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679618 A former marine and World War II veteran describes what it was like to train under and fight alongside Congressional Medal of Honor winner John Basilone during the battle of Iwo Jima. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577552 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672115 The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War. The battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe; from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.