I'm looking for some hard cover books for my dad. He's into the guns of that era. So some suggestions on books about that would be great. If you know of any good books about the actual war or photography books on it would be an added bonus.
Thank you!
2007-02-15 11:06:37 · 9 answers · asked by darkphoenix278 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Life Goes To War: A Pictorial History of World War II
("Life" refers to Life Magazine.) This is a wonderful book and I think your father would love it.
You might also look for books that feature reproductions of the front pages of newspapers during the war.
2007-02-15 11:13:33 · answer #1 · answered by Pamela B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose about US airborne forces, The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan about D-Day, A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan about Operation Market Garden, The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sager a unique story about a foreign soldier in the German Wermacht who ends up fighting terrible conditions on the Eastern Front. Yankee Samurai is a great book about Nisei soldiers that fought in the Pacific. I own all of these books and many more these are some of my personal favorites.
2007-02-16 00:59:51 · answer #2 · answered by me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II: Books: Stephen E. Ambrose
All the Stephen Ambrose books are very good. This is one of them. Actually, Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg produced a TV series "Band of Brothers" based on many of his books. Your Dad would love this.
2007-02-15 19:42:35 · answer #3 · answered by captjaneway 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recently read "The Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides. It was quite good and I would recommend it highly. It's about the the Bataan death march in the Philippines and the American and British POWs in the Japanese camps and they're rescue by the the Army Rangers. Also, the books of Cornelius Ryan "The Longest Day" and "A Bridge to Far" and "The Wild Blue" by Stephen Ambrose
2007-02-15 23:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by dutch132004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk are fiction, but still great books about WII, covering both fronts.
2007-02-15 19:12:58 · answer #5 · answered by Mad About Purple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
robert cousins.... war of the rats true story on an russian sniper
in the battle of Stalingrad excellent book. and the same author book called.....the last citadel about russian tank regiments( night witch female night bomber regiment ) in the bigest engagement between german's and russian's at kursk 1943-1944 just as the american's were coming in to the war
2007-02-15 19:22:03 · answer #6 · answered by driverfus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am from Ukraine where World War || actually has been!!! Awfull thing so you could go on the internet www.google.com
You can type in web like: World war || and look for it!!!
Or you can go to the www.google.com
choose bar images and type in your thing that you wanna find!!!
In Ukraine we have lots of this kind of books!!!
So good luck with finding book!!!
2007-02-15 19:13:20 · answer #7 · answered by Yulianna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dark:
If you can find them, "Intrepid" is a true story of the head spy for the English. A great read.
Also if you can find "Yamamoto". The guy in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbour. A really great read.
Not war but read stories on site below, if like others he would probably like these books as well.
Wayne Russell, The Vagabond Writer.
2007-02-16 12:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
QB VII by leon uris
The diary of Anne Frank
2007-02-15 19:22:53 · answer #9 · answered by stevieray 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋