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1) Island infernos: the US Army's Pacific War odyssey, 1944

Author

McManus, John C

Publisher

Dutton Caliber, Penguin Random House LLC

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

Description

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"From the author of Fire and Fortitude, the continuation of the US Army's epic crusade in the Pacific War, from the battle of Saipan to the occupation of Japan"-- After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe. The challenges ahead were enormous: supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean; surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria, and other tropical diseases; fighting...

2) Riviera to the Rhine: the European theater of operations

Author

Clarke, Jeffrey J

Publisher

Center of Military History, United States Army

Pub. Date

1993

Language

English

3) China defensive

Author

Sherry, Mark D

Publisher

Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor

Pub. Date

1996?]

Language

English

4) Western Pacific

Author

Anderson, Charles R

Series

U.S. Army campaigns of World War II

Publisher

[U.S. Army Center of Military History]

Pub. Date

[1994?]

Language

English

5) The U.S. Army in World War II

Author

Benoit, Peter

Series

True book

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Description

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Discusses the United States Army's involvement during World War II.

6) North Apennines

Author

Oland, Dwight D

Publisher

Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor

Pub. Date

1996?]

Language

English

7) Normandy

Author

Hammond, William M

Series

U.S. Army campaigns of World War II

Publisher

U.S. Army Center of Military History

Pub. Date

1994?]

Language

English

8) Citizen soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945

Author

Ambrose, Stephen E

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

[1997]

Language

English

Description

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Includes maps indicating the Normandy Beachhead expansion, July 1-24, 1944; the pursuit to the Siegfried Line, Aug. 26-Sept. 14, 1944; the Ardennes Campaign, Dec. 16-25, 1944, Dec. 26, 1944-Jan. 16 1945, and Jan. 17-Feb. 7, 1945; the Battle of the Rhineland, Feb. 8-Mar. 28, 1945; and the drive to the Elbe, Apr. 4-May 7, 1945.

9) Po Valley

Author

Popa, Thomas A

Publisher

U.S. Army Center of Military History

Pub. Date

[1996?]

Language

English

10) Mobilization

Author

Schubert, Frank N

Series

U.S. Army in World War II

Publisher

U.S. Army Center of Military History

Pub. Date

1995?]

Language

English

11) Okinawa: the last battle

Publisher

Center of Military History, U.S. Army

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

12) The rise of the G.I. Army 1940-1941: the forgotten story of how America forged a powerful army before Pearl Harbor

Author

Dickson, Paul

Publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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"In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men--unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and...