William B. Breuer (September 17, 1922 – August 18, 2010) was a soldier, journalist and American
military historian, who specialized in the
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
epoch.
Legacy
His work, ''The Great Raid on Cabanatuan'' along with
Hampton Sides
Wade Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. He is the author of '' Hellhound on His Trail,'' ''Ghost Soldiers,'' '' Blood and Thunder'', ''On Desperate Ground'', and other bestselling works of narrative histor ...
' ''
Ghost Soldiers
Ghost soldiers or ghost battalions refers to army troops whom names appear on military rolls, but who are not actually in military service, generally in order to divert part of the soldiers' salaries to an influential local entity such as army of ...
'', was adapted into a film titled ''
The Great Raid
''The Great Raid'' is a 2005 war film about the Raid at Cabanatuan on the island of Luzon, Philippines during World War II. It is directed by John Dahl and stars Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Marton Csokas, Joseph Fiennes with Motok ...
'' (2005).
Bibliography
*''Agony at Anzio''
*''The Air-raid Warden Was a Spy: and Other Tales from Home-front America in World War II.'' Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003.
*''An American Saga''
*''Bizarre tales from World War II''. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2005, c1999.
*''Bloody Clash at Sadzot: Hitler's Final Strike for Antwerp.'' New York: Jove, 1981.
*''Captain Cool''
''Daring Missions of World War II'' 2002.
*''Death of a Nazi Army: the Falaise Pocket''. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.
*''Devil Boats: the PT War against Japan''. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1987.
*''Drop Zone, Sicily: Allied Airborne Strike, July 1943''. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1983.
*''Feuding Allies: the Private Wars of the High Command''. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
*''Geronimo!: American paratroopers in World War II ''. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
*''Guts!: 27 Courageous People and Their Triumphs Over Adversity''. New Horizon Press, 2005.
*''The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor''. Wiley, 1994.
*''Hitler's Fortress Cherbourg: the conquest of a bastion''. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.
*''Hitler's Undercover War: the Nazi Espionage Invasion of the U.S.A''. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
*''Hoodwinking Hitler''
*''J. Edgar Hoover and His G-Men''
*''MacArthur's Undercover War: Spies, Saboteurs, Guerrillas, and Secret Missions''.
*''Nazi Spies in America''
*''Operation Dragoon: the Allied Invasion of the South of France''. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1987.
*''Operation Torch: The Allied Gamble to Invade North Africa''.
*''Race to the Moon: America's Duel with the Soviets''. Praeger, 1993.
*''Retaking the Philippines: America's Return to Corregidor and Bataan, October 1944-March 1945''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
*''Sea Wolf: a Biography of
John D. Bulkeley, USN''. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1989.
*''The Secret War with Germany: Deception, Espionage, and Dirty Tricks, 1939-1945''. New York: Jove Books, 1989, c1988.
*''Secret Weapons of World War II''
*''Shadow Warriors: the Covert War in Korea''. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
*''Storming Hitler’s Rhine: the Allied Assault, February–March 1945''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
*''They Jumped at Midnight''
*''Top Secret Tales of World War II''
*''Undercover Tales of World War II''
*''Unexplained Mysteries of World War II''
*''Vendetta: Castro and the Kennedy Brothers''
*''War and American Women: Heroism, Deeds, and Controversy''. Praeger, 1997.
References
External links
Military historian William Breuer dies at 87In Memory of William B. Breuer
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1922 births
2010 deaths
American military historians
American male non-fiction writers
Place of birth missing