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Books : History : World History : World War II 1939-1945 : Countries : North America
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Into the Teeth of the Tiger provides a vivid, pilot’s-eye view of one of the most extended projections of American air power in World War II Asia. Lopez chronicles every aspect of fighter combat in that theater: harrowing aerial battles, interludes of boredom and inactivity, instances of courage and cowardice. Describing different pilots’ roles in each type of mission, the operation of the P-40, and the use of various weapons, he tells how he and his fellow pilots faced not only constant danger but also the munitions shortages, poor food, and rat-infested barracks of a remote sector of the war. The author also offers keen observations of wartime China, from the brutalities of the Japanese occupation to the conflict between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and the Communist movement.
This edition of Lopez's acclaimed account features new photographs, most of which have never before been published. Relating how the 23rd Fighter Group continued to win battles even as the Japanese gained ground, Into the Teeth of the Tiger is the humorous and insightful memoir of an ace pilot caught in the paradox of victory in retreat.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Critiques the art of war as practiced by US and Canadian tank commanders in France in 1944. This work traces the evolution of North American armoured doctrine. It draws upon battle performance reviews, interrogation reports, diaries and technical evaluations.
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Alistair Cooke, a Washington correspondent for 'The Guardian', recognized a story to be told in investigating the effects of the Second World War on America and the lives of Americans as they adjusted to new circumstances. This work talks about this American character and the spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke's reports and broadcasts.
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Publication Date: January 1, 1970 "The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise, " Cannon asserts. On the eve of World War II, a founder of the communist movement in the U.S. defends the program and party-building course of the Communist International in Lenin s time. Introduction by George Novack, photo, glossary, index. Appendix, "The War and Bureaucratic Conservatism," by James Burnham.
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The rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945 was the largest and most successful operation of its kind. This book is based on personal accounts from the survivors.
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Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many unpublished until now - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executive and the United States' Office of Strategic Services. They parachuted behind enemy lines, often alone, with orders to cause mayhem. Arrest almost always resulted in torture and imprisonment; sometimes in execution. Trained in the black arts of warfare - sabotage, subversion, espionage, guerrilla tactics and undermining enemy morale by the distribution of insidious propaganda - theirs' was a war fought in the shadows. Their activities extended to every theatre of operations: in occupied France, equipped with false identities, they played a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Gestapo; in the Balkans they discovered that the fiery politics of the region were as dangerous as the enemy; in the Burmese jungle, in some of the worst combat conditions of the war, they led native marauders in surprise attacks against the Japanese. From Britain they were supported by a team of back-room boffins who produced expertly forged documents and dreamed up ingenious devices like exploding rats and invisible ink. The special agents of World War II really were a breed apart. This is their extraordinary story, in their own words.
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An account of Germany's little known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942. It also documents the failure of the US Navy to meet the German attack.
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