The longest year
Subtitle: America at war and at home in 1944
By: Victor Brooks
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781631440236
Subjects: Campaigns; Social life and customs; Nineteen forty-four, A.D.; World War, 1939-1945; War casualties; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue December 1943; title: A gathering of eagles; title: The ghosts of hills and rivers; title: The Anzio gambit; title: The rise of the sky knights; title: The last invasion of Britain; title: Storming a stolen empire; title: The race for Rome; title: The deadly sands of Normandy; title: The gods of sea and sky; title: Showdown on Saipan; title: Raising the fallen colors; title: Days of the liberators; title: Redemption at Leyte; title: The home front war; title: Autumn of shattered dreams; title: Epilogue 1945.