Red Arrow Across The Pacific: The Thirty-Second Infantry Division During World War II

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“Red Arrow Across The Pacific” is a detailed, but engaging account of the Thirty-Second Division’s World War II service, featuring training in the United States and Australia followed by intense combat in New Guinea and the Philippines and occupation

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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman

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War histories usually focus on battles and strategies, generals and admirals, presidents and privates.  Occasionally there is mention of the Age of Total War, of the American superiority of resources that overwhelmed Germany and Japan, but where do

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Arsenal of Democracy by A. J. Baime

War History Network members will appreciate that World War II was fought as much in the factory, the farm and the mine as it was in the battlefield.  “The Arsenal of Democracy” tells the role that the Ford Motor Company played in producing the materi

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Most Honorable Son: A Forgotten Hero's Fight Against Fascism And Hate During World War II by Gregg Jones

The World War II plight of Japanese Americans is common knowledge to War History Network readers.  “Most Honorable Son” is a different take on the oft told story. 

 

This is the tale of Ben Kuroki, a Nebraska farm boy born in 1917 to Japanese-American

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We Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. Norman

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 War History Network members are familiar many War II tales but one that is frequently overlooked is told in We Band Of Angels.  It contains the story of 99 American nurses trapped on Bataan and Corregidor during the Japanese conquest of 1942. 

Thei

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Three Days At The Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble To Win World War II by Bret Baier

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War History is not solely made on the battlefields.  The meetings that lay the plans for victory are as much a part of the story as the shot and shell.  Allied plans for World War II and its sequalae were formulated in a series of conferences invol

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Women Remember The War 1941-1945 Edited by Michael E. Stevens

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Not all war history centers on the battlefield.  The home front has its own contributions.   “Women Remember the War” is a fascinating collection of oral histories of 25 Wisconsin women who lived through World War II.  It consists of edited version

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All Behind You, Winston: Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45 by Roger Hermiston

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Foreign enemies can unite political foes.  One such instance is chronicled in All Behind You Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45.  This volume documents the consensus and disputes, initiatives advanced and those deferred, and the leaders o

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The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved The Republican Party And His Country, And Conceived A New World Order by David Levering Lewis

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Karl Von Clausewitz, a renowned Prussian general and military theorist, once famously stated, "War is the continuation of politics by other means."  To understand war then, one must go behind the frontlines into the political realm to the people an

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Uniting America: How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together to Win World War II

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War History is not limited to the exploits of generals, admirals and GI Joes.  As von Clausewitz remarked “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”  As War History Readers know, war is admixed with domestic

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The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw Da Capo Press, 2004

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A friend brought The Longest Winter to my attention.   It documents the exploits of World War II’s most decorated American platoon, the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon, 394^th Infantry Regiment, 99^th Infantry Division.  When the Battle of th

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