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Biennial Reports of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to the Secretary of War, 1 July 1939-30 June 1945

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: Center of Military History CMH Pub 70-57. Brings together three installments of General George C. Marshall's wartime reports. Provides a comprehensive picture of global war as seen from the perspective of the Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Includes Marshall's comments on such topics as: technology; the "90-division gamble;" the replacement system; troop morale and the citizen-soldier; and demobilization.

Year/Pages: 1996: 224 p.; ill.

Price: $42.00 Add To Cart

The Capture of Makin, November 20-24, 1942 (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 100-2. American Forces in Action Series. Provides an account of the Army operations against a determined enemy up through the Central Pacific.

Year/Pages: 1946: 136 p.; ill.

Price: $9.50 Add To Cart

Command Post at War: First Army Headquarters in Europe, 1943-1945

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 70-60. Addresses the First Army headquarters in the European theater from its activation in October 1943 to V-E Day in May 1945. Shows the army headquarters of World War 2 as a complicated organization with functions ranging from the immediate supervision of tactical operations to long-range operational planning and the sustained support of frontline units.

Year/Pages: 2000: 376 p.; ill.

Price: $17.00 Add To Cart

D-Day: The 6th of June

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 70-53. A commemorative historical map with accompanying graphics (18"x24") and chronology of the Normandy Invasion.

Year/Pages: Map, 18x24 in. repr.

Price: $4.25 Add To Cart

From the Volturno to the Winter Line, 6 Oct.-15 Nov. 1943

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 100-8. Armerican Forces in Action Series. Reprint of a book originally published in the 1940 as part of a series designed exclusively for wounded soldiers in hospitals to tell them the story of the campaigns and battles in which they had served. Narrates the actions of the American VI Corps, which served as the right flank of Fifth Army during the six weeks of the advance from the Volturno to the Winter Line. Bottom of cover reads: World War 2, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1945: 129 p.; ill., map. 1990-repr.

Price: $8.00 Add To Cart

Guam: Operations of the 77th Division, July 21-Aug. 10, 1944

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 100-5. American Forces in Action Series. Reprint of a book originally published in 1946. Tells the story of the Army's part in the seizure of Guam during World War II. Based upon a first narrative prepared in the field from military records and from notes and interviews recorded during the operation by Staff Sergeant James M. Burns. Covers: Objective: Guam; Assault Phase; Pursuit Phase; Barrigada; and Final Pursuit Phase. Also includes a Guam map, in color, on the inside of the back cover. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1946: 145 p.; ill., map. 1990-repr.

Price: $9.50 Add To Cart

Industrialists in Olive Drab: The Emergency Operation of Private Industries During World War 2 (Paperbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 70-32-1. By John H. Ohly. Edited by Clayton D. Laurie. Purports to tell the story of the War Department's participation in the emergency operation of private industrial facilities during world War 2. L.C. card 99-28479.

Year/Pages: 1999: 408 p.; ill.

Price: $13.00 Add To Cart

Omaha Beachhead (6 June-13 June 1944)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: Armed Forces in Action Series. CMH Pub. 100-11-1. Prepared by the 2d Information and Historical Service, attached to the First Army, and by the Historical Section, European Theater of Operations. Provides a historical narrative dealing with American military operations in France during the month of June 1944. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1945: 175 p.; ill., 16 maps in envelope. 1984-repr.

Price: $25.50 Add To Cart

Pattern for Joint Operations: World War 2 Close Air Support, North Africa

Publisher: Defense Dept., Office of the Air Force History and Army Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 93-7. Historical Analysis Series. Discusses the organization, doctrine, and equipment for close air support of ground forces in the United States military organization prior to World War 2. Explains how the Tunisian campaign demonstrated the need for tactical changes and describes the struggle by Allied air and ground leaders in North Africa to form a cooperative combat team. L.C. card 87-19335.

Year/Pages: 1987: 104 p., 1 folded leaf; ill.

Price: $9.50 Add To Cart

St. Lo (Paperback)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 100-13. American Forces in Action Series. First issued August 21, 1946. Discusses the operations of a single corps in the First Army's offensive during the first three weeks of July 1944 designed to deepen the lodgment area preparatory to the breakout from Normandy.

Year/Pages: 1946: 128 p.; ill. repr.

Price: $19.00 Add To Cart

Salerno: American Operations From the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September - 6 October 1943

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 100-7. American Forces in Action Series. Reprint of a book originally published in the 1940s as part of a series designed exclusively for wounded soldiers in hospitals to tell them the story of the campaigns and battles in which they had served. Presents the account of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno during World War II. Based on the best military records available. Bottom of the cover reads: World War 2, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1944: 106 p.; ill., 4 maps. 1990-repr.

Price: $4.75 Add To Cart

Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East (Paperback)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: Army Historical Series. CMH Pub. 30-5-1. Describes the German-Soviet conflict in World War II and the events that resulted in the Soviet Union becoming a dominant military power in Europe. L.C. card 67-60001.

Year/Pages: 1968: 561 p.; ill. 1987-repr.

Price: $59.00 Add To Cart

To Bizerte With the II Corps (23 April - 13 May 1943) (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 100-6. American Forces in Action Series. Discusses the final push by II Corps under General Omar N. Bradley to destroy Axis forces in northern Tunisia, April-May 1943.

Year/Pages: 1943: 64 p.; ill. repr.

Price: $8.00 Add To Cart

Toward Independence: The Emergence of the United States Air Force, 1945-1947

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: Air Force Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Chronicles the history of the United States Air Force from 1945 to 1947.

Year/Pages: 1996: 38 p.; ill.

Price: $1.75 Add To Cart

Africa to the Alps: The Army Air Forces in the Mediterranean Theater

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Describes the participation of the Army Air Forces in the Mediterranean theater of operations in World War 2, as it developed in practical air-ground doctrine, established an effective interdiction strategy, and gained valuable experience in airborne operations and close air support of ground troops.

Year/Pages: 1999: 35 p.; ill.

Price: $1.25 Add To Cart

Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans During World War 2

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Examines the role of the Army Air Force in support of the activities of Yugoslavian partisans fighting the Axis powers in the Balkans in World War 2. Item 422-M-01.

Year/Pages: 1995: 47 p.; ill.

Price: $1.75 Add To Cart

Leaping the Atlantic Wall: Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942-1945

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Tells the story of the allied air forces breach of the Atlantic wall of Hitler's "Fortress Europe". Item 422-M.

Year/Pages: 1999: 36 p.; ill.

Price: $1.25 Add To Cart

United States Army and World War 2, Asiatic-Pacific Theater (CD-ROM Set)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH EM 0222. Set 2 of 7. Contains a collection of works on World War 2 from the Center of Military History on the operations and campaigns in the Asia and Pacific theaters. Includes electronic reprints of many of the "United States Army in World War 2" green books series.

Year/Pages: 2002: 4 CD-ROMs and booklet in plastic case.

Price: $24.00 Add To Cart

United States Army and World War 2: European, Mediterranean, Middle East Theaters of Operations (CD-ROM)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH EM 0192. Set 1 of 7. Contains a collection of works on World War 2 from the Center of Military History on the operations and campaigns in the European, Mediterranean, and Middle East theaters.

Year/Pages: 2002: 4 CD-ROMs and booklet in plastic case.

Price: $24.00 Add To Cart

Algeria-French Morocco: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 72-11. Discusses the battle in North Africa, which took place from November 8, 1942 to November 11, 1942. Illustrated with color maps and black and white photographs. Includes suggestions for further reading. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1993: 32 p.; ill.

Price: $1.75 Add To Cart

Anzio: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 72-19. Discusses the military campaign in Anzio and Nettuno, Italy from January 22 to May 24, 1944. Illustrated with black and white photographs, color maps, and the reproduction of a painting. Includes suggestions for further reading. Item 0344-G.

Year/Pages: 1994: 24 p.; ill.

Price: $2.00 Add To Cart

Bismarck Archipelago: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 72-24. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.

Year/Pages: 1995: 28 p.; ill. repr.

Price: $2.00 Add To Cart

Defense of the Americas: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 72-1. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.

Price: $2.00 Add To Cart

Luzon: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 72-28. Discusses the World War 2 liberation of the island of Luzon in the Philippines from Japanese forces from December 15, 1944 to July 4, 1945. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1995: 31 p.; ill.

Price: $2.00 Add To Cart

Normandy: The U. S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 72-18. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.

Year/Pages: 1994: 47 p.; ill. 2008-repr.

Price: $2.75 Add To Cart

Northern France: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 72-30. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.

Year/Pages: 1995: 32 p.; ill.

Price: $2.75 Add To Cart

Northern Solomons: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 72-10. Discusses Army operations in the Northern Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean from February 22, 1943 to November 21, 1944. The islands include New Georgia, Bougainville, and New Britain. They were also referred to as the Cartwheel Area of Operations. This booklet is illustrated with black and white photographs, color maps, and a color reproduction of a painting. Includes suggestions for further reading. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1993: 35 p.; ill.

Price: $2.00 Add To Cart

Po Valley: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 72-33. The Po River Valley is in Italy. Describes the Allied forces' offensive in the Po Valley in Northern Italy from April 5 through May of 1945.

Year/Pages: 1996: 27 p.; ill.

Price: $2.75 Add To Cart

Sicily: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 72-16. Covers the Allied invasion of Sicily from July 9 to August 17, 1943. Sicily was the first piece of the Axis homeland to fall to the Allies during World War 2. Includes a color map, black and white photographs, and suggestions for further reading. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1993: 28 p.; ill.

Price: $2.00 Add To Cart

Southern Philippines: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 72-40. Discusses the liberation of the Southern Philippines islands by the United States Eighth Army during February 27 through July 4, 1945. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1996: 35 p.; ill.

Price: $3.50 Add To Cart

Western Pacific: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 72-29. Covers campaigns in the Mariana and Palau Islands from June 15, 1944 to September 2, 1945. Illustrated with color maps, black and white photographs, and a color reproduction of an artwork. Includes suggestions for further readings. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1994: 36 p.; ill.

Price: $2.75 Add To Cart

United States Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 (Paperbound Edition)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 70-41. Discusses pre-World War 2 mobilization maneuvers at General Headquarters that pitted entire field armies against each other in the summer and fall of 1941. Also includes battle maps, black and white photographs, an order of battle, biographical sketches of the principal officers, a bibliography, an index, and a glossary. On cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. L.C. card 91-17502.

Year/Pages: 1991: 235 p.; ill.

Price: $10.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Army Ground Forces, Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of Chief of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 2-2. By Robert R. Palmer, et al. L.C. card 50-13989. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1948: 696 p.; ill., 3 plates.

Price: $20.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Buying Aircraft: Material Procurement for Army Air Forces (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 11-2. Describes the expansion of and problems associated with the aircraft industry to meet the military requirements of the Army before and during the war.

Year/Pages: 1964: 664 p.; ill. 1989-repr.

Price: $22.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, China-Burma-India Theater, Stilwell's Command Problems (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History

Description: CMH Publication 9-2. United States Army in World War 2. Tells the story of General Stilwell's experiences in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater between October 1943 and his recall in October 1944. Chronicles the seizure of Myitkyina in Burma and the Salween River fighting in China. Includes tables, charts, maps, illustrations, bibliographical note, glossaries, and index. L.C. card 55-60004. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1956: 518 p.; ill., 4 maps.

Price: $38.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, China-Burma-India Theater, Stilwell's Mission to China (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 9-1. Provides an account of General Joseph W. Stilwell's work with the Chinese National Government in the execution of his orders from Washington to "support China" and to assist in "improving the combat efficiency of the Chinese Army." Covers related events from China's request for United States aid in Oct. 1940 through late 1943. Includes footnotes, bibliographical notes, a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations, and an index. L.C. card 53-60349. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1953: 465 p.; ill., 2 maps in pocket.

Price: $9.40

United States Army in World War 2, China-Burma-India Theater, Time Runs Out in CBI (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 9-3. Carrying the narrative from General Wedemeyer's assumption of command to the end of the war, this volume concludes with Americans still working to improve the Chinese Army while attempting to fly in sufficient supplies from India and Burma. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1959: 428 p.; ill., 8 maps. 1985-repr.

Price: $9.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War II: European Theater of Operations, Cross-Channel Attack (Paperback)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: /28/08. CMH 7-4-1. This first European Theater of Operations tactical volume covers the prelude to the 6 June 1944 assault and combat operations of the First U.S. Army in Normandy to 1 July 1944.

Year/Pages: 1951: 519 p.; ill. 2004-repr.

Price: $48.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War II: The Last Offensive (Paperback)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 7-9-1. Focusing on the role of Five American armies and their tactical air support, with some account of the role of Allied forces, this book brings to an end the war in Europe.

Year/Pages: 1973: 532 p.; ill.

Price: $48.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, European Theater of Operations: The Riviera to the Rhine (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 7-10. 1st printing. Provides a history of combat operations by the Sixth Army Group from its landing in France to its crossing of the Rhine River. Covers the period from August 1944 to March 1945. This work is the final volume of the United States Army's series of operational histories treating the activities of its combat forces during the Second World War. L.C. card 91-3180. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1993: 627 p.; ill. 35 maps

Price: $56.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, European Theater of Operations: The Riviera to the Rhine (Paperbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 7-10-1. 1st printing. Provides a history of combat operations by the Sixth Army Group from its landing in southern France to the crossing of the Rhine River. Covers the period from August 1944 to March 1945. On cover: World War II 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. This work is the final volume of the United States Army's series of operational histories treating the activities of its combat forces during the Second World War. L.C. card 91-3180.

Year/Pages: 1993: 627 p.; ill.

Price: $44.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Cassino to the Alps (Paperbound Edition)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 6-4-1. Provides an account of operations in Italy from Operation Diadem and the capture of Rome to the negotiations for the surrender of German armies in Italy. Cover title reads: Cassino to the Alps. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Facsimile reprint of the 1977 edition with a new title page and paper cover. The maps are in a separate envelope with the label "A Portfolio of Maps Extracted From Cassino to the Alps." L.C. card 76-43097. Book and maps, sold as a set. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1977: 608 p.; ill., 16 maps in envelope. 1993-repr.

Price: $44.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Northwest Africa, Seizing the Initiative in the West (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 6-1. United States Army in World War 2. Reprint of the 1957 edition. 12 maps are attached to the inside of the back cover. Describes the assault on North Africa in 1942. The assault led to a bitter conflict that finally culminated in the defeat of the Axis powers in Tunisia seven months later. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1957: 772 p.; il., maps. 2002-repr.

Price: $25.50

United States Army in World War 2, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Salerno to Cassino (Paperbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 6-3-1. Facsimile reprint of the 1969 edition with a new title page and a paper cover. Discusses operations from the invasion of the Italian mainland near Salerno through the winter fighting up to the battles for Monte Cassino, including the Rapido River crossing, and the Anzio beachhead. Includes an envelope of maps with the label: "A Portfolio of Maps Extracted From Salerno to Cassino. Cover title reads: Salerno to Cassino. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1969: 491 p.; ill., 7 maps in envelope. 1993-repr.

Price: $42.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2: Readers Guide

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 11-9. Compiled and edited by Richard C. Adamczyk and Morris J. MacGregor. Contains a brief analytical description of each volume in the "United States Army in World War 2" series published to date or to be published in the near future. Most of these volumes are currently available from GPO under separate stock numbers. On cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. L.C. card 47-46404.

Year/Pages: 1992: 183 p.

Price: $14.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Special Studies, Chronology, 1941-1945 (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 11-1. United States Army in World War 2. Chronicles primarily the tactical events of World War 2, from theattack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, to the surrender of Japan in Aug. 1945,with emphasis on ground action by United States armed forces. L.C. card 59-60002. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1960: 660 p. 1984-repr.

Price: $22.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War II: The Employment of Negro Troops (Hardcover)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 11-4. Tells the history of an important national question: the service of African-American soldiers in the Army during World War II and the integration of the Army after the war. It covers problems in the development and application of policy with some attention to the results, both public and military.

Year/Pages: 1966: 760 p.; ill. repr.

Price: $26.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Technical Services, The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 10-22. By Alfred M. Beck, et al. Describes in detail the role of the Army Corps of Engineers in various military campaigns throughout North Africa and Italy as well as in Western and Central Europe, from 1941 through 1944. L.C. card 84-11376. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1985: 626 p.; ill.

Price: $48.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Technical Services, Corps of Engineers, The War Against Japan (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 10-6. Discusses engineer activities in the Pacific war, with particular emphasis on those in General MacArthur's Southwest Pacific area. L.C. card 66-60004. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1966: 759 p.; ill.

Price: $22.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, The Technical Services, The Ordnance Department, On Beachhead and Battlefront

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 10-11. Concentrates on Ordnance operations in the Mediterranean, European, and Southwest Pacific theaters. Also covers the central Pacific theater as a background for the Okinawa campaign. L.C. card 67-60000. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1968: 543 p.; ill., 3 maps in pocket.

Price: $33.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2: The Quartermaster Corps, Operations in War Against Japan (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept.. Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 10-14. United States Army in World War 2. Tells the story of Quartermaster supply and service in the war against Japan in the Pacific. Concentrates on the many problems which were inevitable in a distant and strange environment. Reflects the viewpoint of the troops and the commanders in the field.

Year/Pages: 1956: 376 p.; ill. 1995-repr.

Price: $18.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Technical Services, Transportation Corps, Movements, Training, and Supply (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 10-20. Discusses troop and supply movements within the zone of interior to overseas commands, the organization and training of personnel, and the development, procurement, and distribution of corps materiel. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1956: 584 p.; ill.

Price: $26.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, War Department, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940-1943

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 1-5. Discusses United States Army logistics, primarily of ground forces, in its relation to global strategy. Told from the viewpoint of the central administration in Washington, Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff, the War Department General Staff, and the Services of Supply. L.C. card 55-600001. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1955: 780 p.; ill., 5 maps.

Price: $30.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, War Department, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944 (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 1-4. This volume deals with strategic planning in the midwar era from January 1943 through the summer of 1944. This is the story of the hopes, fears, struggles, frustrations, and triumphs of the Army strategic planners coming to grips with the problems of the offensive phase of coalition warfare. Basic to this story is the account of planning by General George C. Marshall and his advisers in the great debate on European strategy which followed the Allied landings in North Africa and continued to the penetration of the German frontier in September 1944.

Year/Pages: 1959: 660 p.; ill. 1970-repr.

Price: $26.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, War in the Pacific, Campaign in the Marianas (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 5-7. Describes joint Army, Naval and Marine operations to capture Saipan, Tinian, and Guam and the final development of these islands as bases for further American joint operations against the Japanese homeland. L.C. card 60-60000. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1960: 505 p.; ill., 8 maps. 1985-repr.

Price: $55.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, War in the Pacific, Campaign in the Marianas (Paperbound Edition)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 5-7-1. Describes the fight for the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. Includes an account of Navy and Marine participation. Cover title reads: Campaign in the Marianas. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Facsimile reprint of the 1960 edition with a new title page and paper cover. The maps are in a separate envelope with the label "A Portfolio of Maps Extracted From Campaign in the Marianas." L.C. card 60-60000. Book and maps, sold as a set. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1960: 525 p.; ill., 7 maps in envelope. 1993-repr.

Price: $47.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War II, War in the Pacific, Cartwheel, Reduction of Rabaul (Hardcover)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center for Military History

Description: CMH Pub 5-5.

Year/Pages: 434 p.; ill.

Price: $17.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War II, War in the Pacific, Guadalcanal, the First Offensive (Hardcover)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 5-3. This account of the first victory over Japanese ground forces, told at the level of companies, platoons, and even individuals, demonstrates the relationship between air, ground, and surface forces in modern warfare. It attempts to show the contribution of all services to the first victory on the long road to Tokyo.

Year/Pages: 1949: 431 p.; ill. maps. 1965-repr.

Price: $11.00 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War II, War in the Pacific: Okinawa, The Last Battle (Paperbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 5-11-1. By Roy E. Appleman, et al. Facsimile reprint of the 1948 edition with a new title page and paper cover. Cover title reads: Okinawa, the Last Battle. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. The maps are in a separate envelope that is sold with the book. Discusses the final battle in the Pacific in World War 2. The battle is also called Operation Iceberg. Okinawa is the most important island in the Ryukyu Islands group.

Year/Pages: 1948: 556 p.; ill., 48 maps in envelope.

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United States Army in World War 2, War in the Pacific, Strategy and Command, The First Two Years

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 5-1. Analyzes organization and logistics as well as strategy and command, covering the coming of World War 2, Japanese policy and American strategy before Pearl Harbor, Japanese victories in the first six months of the war, first efforts in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to stem the Japanese tide, and the limited offensive in the summer of 1943. L.C. card 61-60001. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1962: 787 p.; ill., 4 maps. 1989-repr.

Price: $32.50 Add To Cart

Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 93-10. 1st printing. On cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Spine title reads: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941. Describes the planning process that Major Albert Coady Wedemeyer used in the summer of 1941 to write the plan that became the outline for mobilization and operations during World War 2. Includes an appendix, "The Army Portion of the Victory Plan, Ultimate Requirements Study, Estimate of Ground Forces." Also includes photographs, footnotes, a bibliography, and an index. L.C. card 90-34984.

Year/Pages: 1990: 170 p.; ill.

Price: $6.00 Add To Cart

Utah Beach to Cherbourg (6 June-27 June 1944)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub 100-12. Armed Forces in Action Series. Includes accounts of landings at corps level and below and relates the course of VII Corps combat operations which resulted in the capture of Cherbourg on June 27, 1944. This is the last of three narratives dealing with American military operations in Normandy. Item 344-G.

Year/Pages: 1947: 225 p.; ill., 20 maps in envelope. 1984-repr.

Price: $31.50 Add To Cart

United States Army in World War 2, Western Hemisphere, Guarding the United States and Its Outposts (Clothbound)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH Pub. 4-2. By Stetson Conn, et al. Discusses the deployment and operations of the Army forces in defense of the continental United States and its outposts, from the Aleutians through Hawaii to the Galapagos in the Pacific, from Iceland through Bermuda to Trinidad in the Atlantic, and the Panama Canal. Also includes three chapters on the "evacuation" of Japanese Americans from California, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Arizona. L.C. card 62-600067. Item 345.

Year/Pages: 1964: 611 p.; ill., 4 maps. 1989-repr.

Price: $30.50 Add To Cart

Airborne Assault on Holland: An Interim Report

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Center for Air Force History

Description: Wings at War Series, No. 4 Commemorative Edition. Originally written and published by the Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, in the 1940s. Discusses the role of air power as the Allies attempted to penetrate German defenses at the Siegfried Line in 1944.

Year/Pages: 1992: 57 p.; ill. repr.

Price: $2.00 Add To Cart

Pacific Counterblow: The 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron in the Battle for Guadalcanal, An Interim Report

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Center for Air Force History

Description: Wings at War Series, No. 3 Commemorative Edition. Originally written and published by the Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, in the 1940s. Tells the story of the Battle for Guadalcanal in 1942, focusing on the operations of the 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron. Item 424.

Year/Pages: 1992: 56 p.; ill. repr.

Price: $1.75 Add To Cart

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