World War II
Showing 241–271 of 271 results
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/9781853104299-90x121.jpg)
The Short Sunderland in World War II
This is a pictoral and photographic history of the Short Sunderland aircraft and its participation in World War II.
Appendices include a list of all RAF Sunderlands and their fates, squadron codes, etc.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/9781844258192-90x114.jpg)
The Spitfire Story
The Spitfire is probably the most famous Second World War fighter aircraft. Alfred Price, international authority on the Spitfire, traces the life of the aircraft that has become a living legend. From the original design concept of Reginald Mitchell to the first flight in 1936, and on through 12 years of continuous development, this extensively illustrated history of the Spitfire has benefited from the help of many people engaged in the design, production and testing of the Spitfire, in particular Jeffrey Quill, the former Chief Test Pilot for Supermarine.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9781870630153-e1469803284856-90x117.jpg)
The True Glory: The Story of the Royal Navy over a Thousand Years
A history of the Royal Navy divided into periods of British History: Anglo Saxon, Tudor, Stuart, Hanoverian, George III, Waterloo to Crimea, Crimea to WW1, Inter War Years, WW2 to Hiroshima, and 1945 to the Present Day.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9781853105869-90x127.jpg)
The Vital Guide to Fighting Aircraft of World War II
This superbly produced pocket-sized reference is filled with 12 of the most important combat aircraft of WWII. Each page is devoted to a single type and displays a detailed color technical drawing, a 3-view drawing, an action photograph, and descriptive text. Every nation is represented.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/9780887402036-90x67.jpg)
The World’s First Jet Bombers: Arado AR 234, Junkers JU 287
This is a wonderful pictoral and photographic account of the Arado AR 234 and Junkers JU 287, the world's first jet bombers.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/9781580970402-90x115.jpg)
Their War: German Combat Photographs From the Archives of Signal
Wherever German forces operated during World War II, from Norway to North Africa, they were accompanied by the photographers of Signal, the German armed forces magazine, who took some of the most famous German combat photos of the war, including many in color.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9781896182445-90x131.jpg)
Through Footless Halls of Air: The Stories of a Few of the Many Who Failed to Return
Exciting stories of six Atlantic Canada airmen who failed to return from aerial operations during the Second World War, with a foreword by Air Vice-Marshall J.E. "Johnnie" Johnson.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9781550050905-e1468441618218-90x116.jpg)
Too Young to Fight: Memories from our Youth During World War II
2000 Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction for Young Adults Award
Shortlisted, 2000 British Columbia Round Table Information Book Award
1999 Teacher Liberian Magazine, Best of the Best issue
Shortlisted, 2001 Rocky Mountain Award
Too Young To Fight is a book of recollections from some of this country's best-loved writers of children's literature. The contributors were children and teenagers during World War II. Though they were far from the fighting and, indeed, too young to participate, they were old enough to remember their impressions and feelings. As they grew up in a tumultuous era, some seemed miraculously untouched while others were profoundly affected. All experienced changes in their lives that shaped the adults they became.
For anyone who did not experience it, this book provides fascinating insight and a tangible link to a formative period in our history. For those who were young themselves at the time, the collection will stir memories and stories long-forgotten. It is our hope that those memories will be shared by people of all ages, and preserved for generations to come.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/9781894581233-90x136.jpg)
Tools of The Trade: Equipping the Canadian Army
A highly readable narrative that tells the story of equipping the Canadian Army Overseas during World War Two. All weapons are covered with much new information on Armoured Fighting Vehicles and artillery systems. Based on four official Wartime reports prepared by the Canadian Army Historical Section. The text provides numbers of vehicles issued, units involved, problems with supply and much more. Vehicles include those of US, British and Canadian manufacture - all of which were used by the Canadian Army in Europe.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9780711005426-e1467906762480-90x119.jpg)
Typhoon and Tempest at War
Although they played a significant part in the Allied victory in the air in World War II, the Typhoon and Tempest series of fighters have passed largely unsung. This book sets out to rectify that omission, plotting the course, with all its many disappointments, of the inspired Sydney Camm design which started off just before the war as the Tornado and finished up after hostilities as the Fury, the fastest prop-powered fighter in the world. The early days of Typhoon development were trying ones for all concerned at Hawkers and the many other aircraft companies involved. There was severe mechanical trouble with the engine; there was a structural fault that caused tails to snap off, and then the Air Ministry wanted to cancel the project because it failed to meet its design specification as a high-altitude fighter. But championed by Roland Beamont, co-author of this book, and a few others who had faith in it, the Typhoon became one of the most potent weapons of air assault when Britain began to go on the offensive against Nazi Germany. And in the Tempest, which developed out of the Typhoon, Britain found a timely shield against the V1s when these pilotless flying bombs were raining on London.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/9780897470544-90x68.jpg)
U-Boats in Action – Warships No. 1
The In Action series of books is contains a plethora of wealth of details, photos and drawings and serves as a fantastic reference for your model projects, or if you just want to fill some holes in your existing collection.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/9780973512045-1-90x115.jpg)
Up Close and Personal
This memoir of the author tells of life and death events during the Normandy invasion, his 'worst day' at a place called Soulangy and the defining moment during the Battle for the Scheldt that cost him his leg.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/9780713716924-90x118.jpg)
US Sky Spies Since World War I
Captioned photographs plus text describe the history of specialized aircraft and the men and equipment associated with them.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9780713718393-90x118.jpg)
USAAF Fighters of World War Two
Covers all the fighters that the Army Air Force used or developed during WW2 and covers fighters from P-35's through the P-83. A substantial detailed study of all USAAF fighters which fought in WWII, including prototypes that did not make it to production. Covers the aircraft history, variants and theatres of operation. Photographs and specification detail throughout.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9781896182155-90x135.jpg)
Valour in the Victory Campaign: The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division Gallantry Decorations, 1945
A fascinating glimpse into the individual heroism and courage of the Canadian soldier during the Battle of the Rhineland and the liberation of Holland. The author has reproduced citations for the gallantry decorations awarded in 1945 to the men of the 3rd Division which, along with the 2nd and 4th Divisions, led the Canadian thrust into Germany and Holland.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/9781896182025-90x135.jpg)
Valour on Juno Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944
To read this book is probably the closest a person could come to living - or reliving - the experience of the Canadians who landed in Normandy in June of 1944.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9780919822566-e1469799582714-90x116.jpg)
Victory in the St. Lawrence: The Unknown U-Boat War
In North America, we think of the Second World War as being fought far away (except for the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor). Few know that German U-boats prowled largely unchallenged up and down the St. Lawrence River, sinking unwary Canadian military and Allied merchant vessels in an attempt to stop the flow of goods, troops and armaments to war-ravaged Britain. Fewer still know that prior to the war, Hitler tried to purchase Anticosti Island, located at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, from a wealthy French chocolate-bar manufacturer.
Victory in the St. Lawrence tells the riveting true story of how shortsighted government priorities and advanced German submarine technology allowed the Nazis to stalk shipping in Allied home waters. Although much of the Second World War is well documented, missing chapters still surface even now, a half century later -- stories of chilling events that might have changed the course of history. Victory in the St. Lawrence reveals how courageous, independent-minded heroes defended North America deep within its defenses.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9780919783348-3-e1469885785960-90x116.jpg)
Victory in the St. Lawrence: The Unknown U-Boat War
In North America, we think of the Second World War as being fought far away (except for the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor). Few know that German U-boats prowled largely unchallenged up and down the St. Lawrence River, sinking unwary Canadian military and Allied merchant vessels in an attempt to stop the flow of goods, troops and armaments to war-ravaged Britain. Fewer still know that prior to the war, Hitler tried to purchase Anticosti Island, located at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, from a wealthy French chocolate-bar manufacturer.
Victory in the St. Lawrence tells the riveting true story of how shortsighted government priorities and advanced German submarine technology allowed the Nazis to stalk shipping in Allied home waters. Although much of the Second World War is well documented, missing chapters still surface even now, a half century later -- stories of chilling events that might have changed the course of history. Victory in the St. Lawrence reveals how courageous, independent-minded heroes defended North America deep within its defenses.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9780770060275-90x139.jpg)
War Stories
Gregory Clark’s 1965 Leacock Medal book describes bloody, plodding conflict in the two world wars. Its title, War Stories, is not misleading. But collectively, these stories also describe a different battle. The one to stay sane amidst the insane and to maintain a sense of humour.
Books about war often take one of two approaches: the close-up, soldier’s eye view of death and ruin or the sanitized view from aloft of military strategists.
But Clark, a decorated Vimy Ridge officer in the First World War and an embedded correspondent throughout almost all of the Second, speaks as a veteran soldier who also has the journalist’s capacity to analyze and observe. The combination gave him the inclination to look at the absurdities of war with sensitivity.
The book draws its material from Clark’s feature articles in Weekend Magazine. In the “War Stories,” the difficult subject matter and the magazine format were merged into a refined technique. Almost all of the pieces were either heart-wrenching stories with a lighter twist at the end or a humorous episode punctuated with a reminder of war.
Clark details a mob attack on a French woman “collaborator” who had been involved with a German soldier. Then his story jumps ahead to the day years later when “The German boy came back and married her.” The sad tale of an old Italian woman who was ostracized as a witch in her bombed out village transforms when she is revealed to be the protector of escaping Allied P.O.W.’s.
In a story with a lighter core, Clark, a fly-fishing fanatic, describes the day he spent casting in the streams in southern England. He realizes that these streams were those celebrated in the iconic book Where the Bright Waters Meet. Clark was standing in the middle of his personal heaven. The day ends with a supper of fresh fish and talk of the book.
But that’s not the end of this story. One last sentence adds a typical Clark twist: “The order presently came; and the young men piled into their lorries; and we went on down to the sea.” It was 1944. The men were off to Normandy and “the Sausage Machine.”
Gregory Clark was in his fifties during the Second World War, and he could have easily avoided the grimness that time around. He had done his part in 1916 at Sanctuary Wood. In that battle, his battalion dropped from 22 officers and 680 men to 3 officers and 78 men in just two days of fighting. Four months later, with reinforcements, the same battalion lost another 1,000 men at the Somme. But he returned to the battles a few decades later and worked the World War II frontlines only coming home after the death of James Murray Clark of the Regina Rifle Regiment in 1944.
Somehow Clark emerged from the wars, the loss of his son, and later personal tragedies with the capacity to hold onto those thoughts of fly-fishing, to focus on smiling faces, to care for others, and to celebrate the softer side to the end of his own life. The answer may lie in the journalist-soldier ability to stand back and observe even though you still feel.
This may be, more than any technical writing tricks, the greatest lesson Greg Clark’s War Stories offers to those of us who hope to write, persevere, and keep a sense of humour in the wake of our own inevitable heartbreaks and setbacks.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/9781854104656-90x119.jpg)
Wehrmacht: The Illustrated History of the German Army in World War II
A pictorial record of Hitler's German Army preparing for war in the 1930s and in action in every battle and campaign of World War II, which comprises more than 200 previously unpublished photographs, only recently discovered in Polish archives.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wellington-90x128.jpg)
Wellington: Mainstay of Bomber Command
Peter Cooksley, an expert aviation author, presents the story of a "reliable old work horse," a second World War aircraft. A comprehensive biography of the Wellington Bomber (otherwise known as the Wimpy) in its various forms, compiled by Peter Cooksley from the recollections of Aircraftmen, Wing Commanders, Lieutenant-Generals and Mechanics involved in its flights; with memories spanning from the 1936 birth of Barnes Wallace's invention to the 1950s, and including bombing raids, aerial battles, ditchings in hostile terrains, near misses, tragic losses, post-war activities of famine relief flights and peacetime training exercises; and the all important tasks of maintenance and repair.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9780771015069-e1468591525134-90x141.jpg)
Where the Hell Are the Guns?: A Soldier’s View of the Anxious Years, 1939-44
In Where the Hell Are the Guns?, author George Blackburn returns to the early years of the Second World War. This volume which completes Blackburns award-winning trilogy, extending its coverage to the entire war brings wartime Canada and England to life in captivating, often comic, detail. With the skill of a novelist and the instincts of a seasoned reporter, this gifted storyteller traces the evolution of Canadas 4th Field Regiment from a motley assortment of ill-equipped recruits to the cream of the Allied artillery, more than ready to distinguish itself in the maelstrom of the battle for Normandy.
The Second World War comes to a generation of Canadians one sunny September weekend in 1939. It is a Canada woefully unprepared for conflict, and 4th Field Regiment is rapidly assembled from a grab-bag of volunteers from all walks of life many of them mavericks and misfits from a depression-ravaged land. The regiment passes its first year in Canada in makeshift accommodation, including hastily converted stables and pigsties in the exhibition grounds of Ottawa and Toronto. For the first few months the soldiers must wear incomplete and moth-eaten uniforms from the Great War, and their early training is conducted using obsolete equipment or no equipment at all. One year into the war, the regiment arrives in England without weapons or vehicles, and a month later, with Britain moving toward the greatest crisis in her history, the regiment is finally equipped with guns French ones with wooden wheels, dating from 1898.
From these inauspicious beginnings, the regiment slowly evolves with mishap and occasionally mayhem along the way into a proud and polished regiment, which in 1942 is declared the best field regiment in Britain. By the time the Allied troops land on the beaches in Normandy, the boys of 4th Field are more than ready to go to war.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9781459710399-90x118.jpg)
White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian
The courageous, historic story of a great fighting ship of the Second World War.
White Ensign Flying tells the story of HMCS Trentonian, a Canadian corvette that fought U-Boats in the Second World War. Trentonian escorted convoys on the North Atlantic and through the deadly waters near England and France. The ship was attacked by the Americans in a friendly-fire incident during Operation Neptune and later earned the dubious distinction of being the last corvette sunk by the enemy.
Litwiller has interviewed many of the men who served in Trentonian and collected their stories. Their unique personal perspectives are combined with the official record of the ship, giving an intimate insight into the life of a sailor ? from the tedium of daily life in a ship at sea to the terror of fighting for your life in a sinking ship.
Over one hundred photos from the private collections of the crew and military archives bring the story of Trentonian to life, illustrating this testament to the ship and the men who served in it.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/9780075510253-1-90x142.jpg)
Winged Peace: The Story of the Air Age
First published in 1944, Winged Peace is the story of aviation, and its future as seen through the eyes of Canada's leading fighter pilot ace in World War I. From Kitty Hawk to B-29 Superfortresses, Bishop shows us how the world had changed geographically, socially, economically, and politically. Bishop wrote Winged Peace during the darkest years of World War II, when Germany had perfected flight for conquest. He examines air power as an instrument for death, as well as the advances in peace and betterment for all that flight is capable of making. There is no greater testament to the imagination and resourcefulness of people than the incredible development and growth of aviation technology in this century. Bishop recognizes this and also the need for international control of air power: 'holding under closest control the means to destruction inherent in aviation and developing our aviation for the good of all mean and the peace of world.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/9781854106308-90x92.jpg)
Wolfpack: U-boats at War – 1939-1945
Using diaries, letters, journals, memoirs, prose and poetry the authors present a brutal but realistic portrait of the lives of the men who fought and died beneath the Atlantic during World War II. It is a story of extreme mental and physical endurance, fear, resilience and heroism.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/9780879388195-90x100.jpg)
World War II Nose Art in Color
Presents original World War II era color photographs of the sometimes comic, sometimes bawdy original paintings with which American flyers decorated their aircraft.
![](https://www.transportbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9780517573303-90x138.jpg)
Zemke’s Wolf Pack: The True Story of Hub Zemke and the 56th Fighter Group
One of America's most effective and charismatic World War II fighter squadron leaders tells his whole dramatic, little-known story of how he contributed so much to victory in Europe. Four 8-page black-and-white photo inserts.