western front

Tells the story of the battle for Western Europe from 1944-1945.

The Guns of August (1962), an account of the outbreak of World War I and the weeks of fighting leading up to the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. Tuchman dramatizes the diplomatic debacles that precipitated the war and the intransigence of the German and French armies as they dogmatically adhered to their battle plans, with disastrous consequences. Interwoven with her vivid re-creation of the German march through Belgium into France and the fierce fighting on the Eastern Front are astute characterizations of the conflict's key military and political leaders, among them French General Joseph Joffre, German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. The Guns of August can also be read as a cautionary study in the perils of brinksmanship, and Tuchman's searching observations about the irrational escalation of conflict among states made a deep impression on President John F. Kennedy, who famously drew on the book for insight during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared, no regiment saw more action that the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment of the 45th Thunderbird Division. This book draws on dozens of extensive interviews of these men to tell their stories.

Chronicles the life of Major Dick Winters, focusing on the courage and loyalty to the other members of his fighting unit during World War II that led him to become one of history's greatest war heroes.

A 1947 memoir in which American General George S. Patton, Jr., recounts his experiences of battle, and shares excerpts from his diaries, in which he recorded details of the U.S. armed forces campaign across Western Europe during World War II.

The author presents a collection of letters he wrote home during during World War Two, and recalls his experience in basic training and in Europe, as part of the American occupation force in Germany, of witnessing the Nuremburg trials, and much more.

A war-time memoir of Major Dick Winters, who assumed command of Easy Company, known as the "Band of Brothers, " when they parachuted into France on D-Day, and describes their trek across Europe, the Battle of the Bulge, liberation of concentration camps, and capture of Hitler's alpine retreat.

Chronicles the Allied offensive against the German army near Amiens, France, in 1918 that led to the end of World War I.