Leader of the Pack

• Author(s): Mark W. Allen

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2011-05
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• Publisher: iUniverse

Leader of the Pack recounts the incredible history of USS Batfish, a record-setting American World War II fleet submarine. Batfish entered the pantheon of military lore during its famous sixth patrol in February 1945, where it sank a record three Japanese submarines in seventy-six hours. In addition to offering a rousing and meticulously researched account of the famous sixth patrol, author and military historian Mark W. Allen unravels a nautical mystery that had gone unresolved for over sixty years: the identity of the first Japanese submarine sunk by Batfish skipper John K. Fyfe. Controversy has surrounded the identity of the first submarine almost since the day of the sinking, but Leader of the Pack, through a diligent recreation of the events that unfolded in the days leading up to the sixth patrol, solves the mystery once and for all. Lastly, Allen shares a personal story, never told before in such detail, of Batfish's rescue of three downed aviators who were forced to ditch their B-25 Mitchell bomber after it was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire during a bombing mission on the Japanese homeland.

Since Last We Spoke

• Author(s): Mary Langton

• Categories: Humor

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2023-11-15
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• Publisher: AuthorHouse

In her latest collection of newspaper columns, Mary Langton once again displays the wit and wisdom her readers have come to expect. By turns humorous and touching, "Since Last We Spoke" is Langton's long overdue new book.

No Average Day

• Author(s): Rona Simmons

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2024-10-24
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• Publisher: University of Missouri Press

On Tuesday, October 24, 1944, nearly three years after the United States entered World War II, over 2,600 Americans perished—more than on any other single day of the conflict—yet the day remains overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history. Drawing from the accounts of men from diverse backgrounds who served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps, Rona Simmons offers a gripping retelling of the fateful day, hour by hour and incident by incident. The book begins with Army Private First Class Paul Miller’s demise in a prisoner of war camp and ends with the death of Navy Seaman Second Class Wanza E. Matthews after the Japanese submarine I-56 attacked his ship off N...

The Real History of World War II

• Author(s): Alan Axelrod

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2008
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• Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Traces the causes of World War II, explores the motivations of important people involved with it, presents the events of the war grouped by the theater in which they took place, and examines its aftermath.

New Images of Nazi Germany

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-10-15
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• Publisher: McFarland

With its battlefields paved over and its bunkers crumbled, the Third Reich of Nazi Germany nevertheless lives on in countless photographs that record an era of extraordinary brutality. This collection of more than 500 photographs taken by amateurs and professional propagandists provides a panoramic overview of Nazi Germany, offering intimate glimpses into living rooms and killing grounds, kitchens and concentration camps, movie theaters and battle fronts. The explanatory text explores the context of the images. Together, these photographs, most never before seen, create a time capsule, capturing the faces of Hitler's soldier's as well as those who suffered under the Nazi onslaught on humanity.