World War II History Books 1944
January 22 – June 5, 1944: Battle of Anzio
Desperate Valour
by Flint Whitlock
June 6, 1944: D-Day Normandy Landings
The Bedford Boys
by Alex Kershaw
The Jedburghs
by Will Irwin
June 15 – July 9, 1944: Battle of Saipan
Their Backs against the Sea
by Bill Sloan
In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered the next day, thirty dead enemies were piled around him.
The Battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes couldn't have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, its capture would result in secure air bases for the new B-29s that would put them within striking distance of the Japanese homeland. The outcome of the war in the Pacific lay in the balance.
In this gritty, vivid narrative, award-winning author Bill Sloan fuses fresh interviews, oral and unit histories, and unpublished accounts to describe one of the war's bloodiest and most overlooked battles of the Pacific theater. Combining grunt's-view grit with big picture panorama (and one of the ugliest inter-service controversies of the war), Their Backs against the Sea is the definitive dramatic story of this epic battle -- and an inspiring chronicle of some of the greatest acts of valor in American military history.
December 16 – January 25, 1944: Battle of the Bulge
The Longest Winter
by Alex Kershaw
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