naval operations in World War II. Morison was a distinguished historian, a former Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University. But he also wrote as a participant in many of the events described in this volume: he served on eleven different ships during the war, emerging as a captain with seven battle stars on his service ribbons, having gone to sea specifically to be able to write in contact with the events covered. Fully illustrated with 35 photographs and 54 charts and maps of key engagements, this is a blazing record of the action from Pearl Harbor to the long war of attrition between submarines and convoys in the Atlantic, through Midway and Guadalcanal, to the invasion of continental Europe, to Okinawa, Leyte, and the final grudging surrender of the Japanese. Morison's narrative is rich enough to reveal all levels of each wartime encounter, dramatizing the strategic arguments that went on between Churchill and King, between MacArthur and Nimitz, as well as highlighting the glory of individual feats of arms. The Two-Ocean War is a truly outstanding contribution to military history.

    He represents toughness, focus, determination, and the ideal of achievement in the face of overwhelming odds. He was the most feared and respected adversary to his enemies and an object of envy, admiration, and sometimes, scorn to his professional peers. An early proponent of tank warfare, George S. Patton moved from being a foresighted lieutenant in the First World War to commanding the Third Army in the next, leading armored divisions in the Allied offensive that broke the back of Nazi Germany. Patton was an enigmatic figure. His image among his troops and much of the press achieved legendary status through his bold and colorful comments and combat leadership, yet these same qualities nearly jeopardized his career and forced him out of the battle on several occasions. Victory was impossible without Patton, and returning to the field, his army was responsible for one of the most crushing advances in the history of warfare.In Ladislas Farago's masterpiece, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, the complete story of this fascinating personality is revealed. Born into an aristocratic California family, Patton rose in military rank quickly and was tapped to lead the Allied landings in North Africa in 1942. Under Patton's direction, American troops cut their teeth against Rommel's Afrikakorps, advanced further and more quickly than British General Montgomery's army in the conquest of Sicily, and ultimately continued their exploits by punching into Germany and checking the Russian westward advance at the end of World War II. A sweeping, absorbing biography and critically hailed, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph provides unique insights into Patton's life and leadership style and is military history at its finest.

    What happened to him during nearly three years behind enemy lines is the amazing story that John Keats tells in They Fought Alone. With the aid of a handful of Americans who also refused to surrender, Fertig led thousands of Filipinos in a seemingly hopeless war against the Japanese. They made bullets from curtain rods; telegraph wire from iron fence. They fought off sickness, despair and rebellion within their own forces. Their homemade communications were MacArthur s eyes and ears in the Philippines. When the Americans finally returned to Mindanao, they found Fertig virtually in control of one of the world s largest islands, commanding an army of 35,000 men, and bringing a measure of hope to a beleaguered people. John Keats, who also served in the Philippines, captures all the pain, brutality, and courage of this incredible drama. "They Fought Alone" is a testament to the ingenuity and sheer guts of an authentic American hero."

    Many stories of fascinating secrets and spies during WW II.

    Marshall has until now remained voiceless and unportrayed. And yet, in the absence of his full life story, the books by other leaders of the free world give an incomplete picture: a key figure is missing.In entrusting to the George C. Marshall Foundation the abundant record of his career to be made into a biography, George Marshall filled a vital gap in the history of our age. The unprecedented collection of source material, either bequeathed by General Marshall to the Foundation or collected later by it, consists of: all General Marshall's personal papers, including his letters; taped interviews with the General made in 1956 and 1957 containing some 125,000 words about his early life; taped interviews with several score of his relatives, classmates, fellow officers, friends, and associates; incomparable newspaper files of the period; and microfilm copies of more than half a million items from official government files, many of them classified until now, but released for this purpose by the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations.Much of the material about the conduct of both World Wars and about the crucial problems of international diplomacy -- and almost all the rich personal material -- will be new even to students of the period.Education of a General, 1880-1939, the first of the three-volume definitive biography, follows Marshall's unswerving progress from his childhood in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland and Marshall took the oath as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. The scenes of his strenuous career include the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War, France in World War I, China in the time of the War Lords, and the length and breadth of his native land.In triumphing over formidable odds to become, first, an army officer with responsibilities far beyond his rank, then a member of Pershing's staff, and finally Chief of Staff amidst the complex tensions of service rivalries, Marshall never lost sight of the ideals of integrity and fair play. We come to understand not only the soldier but the man -- his family devotion, his humanity, his unfailing consideration toward his fellow officers and those who served under him, and his increasing insight into men and nations.Education of a General is also a picture of America's end of innocence, her altered course toward world power, away from isolation, and the part played by a great American in shaping his country for her new role in world affairs.

    Shirer)'Take Cover!' An Air Head Warden Remembers (George Graham)The Enemy's Masterpiece of Espionage (J. Edgar Hoover)The Cruise of the Raider Atlantis (Robert Littell)The Siege of Fort Eben Emael (Lieutenant-Colonel Paul W. Thompson)The Last Enemy (Richard Hillary)Miss Victoria (Patricia Strauss)The Prisoners of Difference (Edwin Muller)Miracle of Dunkirk (Arthur Divine)Hero When He Had to Be (Edwin Muller)Giraud's Brilliant Escape from a Nazi Prison (Frederick Painton)How Britian's Wealth Went West (Leland Snow)Shepherds of the Underground (George Kent)The Frogman Who Crippled a Fleet (J. D. Ratcliff)The Man Who Did Business With Himmler (Edwin Muller)The Hunting of the Bismarck (Captain Russell Grenfell, RN)A Night to Remember (Quentin Reynolds)The Case of the Seasick Stoker (John Rhodes Sturdy)Two Men and an Army (Allan Michie)The Girl Who Wa Anne Frank (Louis de Jong)Blueprint for Pearl Harbour (Edwin Muller)The Infamous Seventh of December (Blake Clark)The Password was Mandalay (Lieutenant-Colonal James Warner Bellah)Secret Mission to North Africa (Frederick Painton)Eleveb Against the Nazi A-Bomb (Frederick Sondern)A Day of Sweeping Mines Off Dover (William L. White)The Hunt for a Spy (Carl Wall)Death in the Lifeboat (Walter Gibson)Joey's Quiet War (Thomas Johnson)What They Call Bravery (Carl Wall)Tunnel to Freedom (Paul Brickhill and Allan Michie)The Short, Sharp Battle of Kelibia Point (George Palmer and Frederic Sondern)The Savage Recruits from Burma (Ralph Herderson)When Hitler Invaded America (Lawrence Elliott)Scarlett Pimpernels of the Air (Allan Michie)The Silent, Invisible War Under the Sea (Ira Wolfert)I Was Monty's Double (M. E. Clifton James)

    This was a voyage fraught with storms, icebergs, and sub zero temperatures in peacetime alone, but now the convoys faced worseOCothe fearsome gauntlet of German aircraft, submarines and surface raiders strung out along the coast of Norway, waiting to meet them. Ogden commanded the vessel in question, keeping diaries of his harrowing experiences of those years, which also cover his time on the equally perilous Atlantic convoys. These accounts were rediscovered and published as a memoir in the 1960s, illustrated with exquisite line drawings by Richard Elsden, who also sailed on these voyages. This is a very different kind of war memoir, vivid and bittersweet, in which the human elements take centerstage against the backdrop of great events."

    S. Forester)The Man Who Saved London (George Kent)'Wingate Circus' (Charles Rolo)The Corpse that Hoaxed the Axis (The Hon. Ewen E. S. Montagu)Confusion Was Their Business (Frederic Sondern)Japan's Last Secret Weapon--Balloons (Brigadier-General W. H Wilbur)The Battle of D-Day Minus One (Blake Clark)The Neutral War in Scandinavia (Colonel Bernt Balchen)The Longest Day (Indro Montanelli)The Radar Screens that Told Lies (Allan Michie)'I Fell 18,000 Feet Without a Parachute' (Nicholas Stephen Alkemade)The Day Bombay Blew Up (John Ennis)What Really Happened to Rommel (Countess Waldeck)Death on a Divine Wand (Captain Rikihei Inoguchi and Commander Tadashi Nakajima)The Man with the Miraculous Hands (Joseph Kessel)The RAF Versus the V-2 (Allan Michie)They Kidnapped a General (Greg Keeton)The Greatest Sea-Air Battle in History (Hanson Baldwin)Germany Was Bombed to Defeat (Allan Michie)Adolf Hitler's Last Days (Frederic Sondern)The Great Nazi Counterfeit Plot (Major George McNally)Was This the Deadliest Error of Our Time? (William Coughlin)No High Ground (Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey)

    The story of the PT Boats in World War II.

    One of the most extraordinary personal documents to emerge from the war, James J. Fahey's diary presents a vivid picture of an average sailor's daily life -- from the first experience of battle in the waters surrounding the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific to the typhoons and food shortages to the final desperate attacks by kamikaze pilots and Japanese suicide ships near Okinawa.