The Story of World War II

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Henry Steele Commager, Donald L. Miller

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780743227186
• eBook ISBN: 9781439128220
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative.Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1 The Nazi Juggernaut
• CHAPTER 2 Britain Stands Alone
• CHAPTER 3 From the Vistula to the Volga
• CHAPTER 4 The Rising Sun
• CHAPTER 5 The Hard Way Back
• CHAPTER 6 The Dead of Tarawa
• CHAPTER 7 Up the Bloody Boot
• CHAPTER 8 The Air War
• CHAPTER 9 The Great Invasion
• CHAPTER 10 From Normandy to Germany
• CHAPTER 11 The Battle of the Bulge
• CHAPTER 12 The Marianas
• CHAPTER 14 The Return
• CHAPTER 15 The B 29s
• CHAPTER 16 Make Them Remember
• CHAPTER 17 From the Volga to the Oder
• CHAPTER 18 Across the Rhine
• CHAPTER 19 Iwo Jima
• CHAPTER 20 OKINAWA
• CHAPTER 21 The Setting Sun
• CHAPTER 22 Victory
• NOTES
• INDEX