Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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The Gathering Storm
$25.00 Add to cartThe first in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II.
Told from the unique viewpoint of t… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0001
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 09 1986
- ISBN10: 039541055X
- Language: English
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A Soldier’s Story
$24.00 Add to cartD-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory–Omar Bradley, the “GI General,” was there for every major engagement in the Europea… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Bradley, Omar N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0375754210
- Language: English
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
$39.00 Add to cartOver the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0316743798
- Language: English
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Indestructible: One Man’s Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
$21.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family — imprisoned by the Japanese–and revolution… [more below]
- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0316339415
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military
$40.99 Add to cartThe first comprehensive narrative of racism in America’s World War II military and the resistance to it.
America’s World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazi- Author: Guglielmo, Thomas A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0195342658
- Language: English
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Miracle at Midway
$20.99 Read moreNew York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is “something special among war histories” (Chicago Sun-Times).
Six months after Pearl Harbor,- Author: Prange, Gordon W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 581
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049268
- Language: English
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The Second World War: An Illustrated History
$55.99 Read moreDiscover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns
‘A fully immersive experience. A comprehensive yet fa- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0241601320
- Language: English
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The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945
$20.00 Add to cart“Books about Nazism are endless, but The War Against the Jews comes to us as a major work of synthesis, providing for the first time a full account of the Holocaust. . . . Dawidowicz has produced a wo… [more below]
- Author: Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 1986
- ISBN10: 055334532X
- Language: English
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Agent Garbo
$15.95 Add to cartThe little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler’s Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double age… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0544035011
- Language: English
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Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible
$39.95 Add to cartAt last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge-the story of five crucial days in which small groups of American soldiers, some outnumbered… [more below]
- Author: McManus, John C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0471739057
- Language: English
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Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon
$27.95 Add to cartIt was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific–
All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan’s major cities. As the bats
- Author: Couffer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 19, 2008
- ISBN10: 0292718721
- Language: English
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The Last of the 357th Infantry: Harold Frank’s WWII Story of Faith and Courage
$19.99 Read moreFor those who loved Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers and E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed. Drawing on toughness and skills forged in hardscrabble Depression-era North Carolina, Bronze Star recipi… [more below]
- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Hager, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514045
- Language: English
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Africa and World War II
$42.00 Add to cartThis volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research and innovative approaches to the historiography of Africa and br… [more below]
- Author: Byfield, Judith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: April 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1107630223
- Language: English
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943
$22.00 Add to cartFollowing The Rise of Germany, the acclaimed first volume in his War in the West trilogy, James Holland has crafted a masterful and gripping narrative of the events that ultimately determined the outc… [more below]
- Series: War in the West
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128572
- Language: English
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D-Days in the Pacific
$26.99 Add to cartAlthough most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II t… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0743269292
- Language: English
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt’s and Harry Truman’s private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the… [more below]
- Author: Beschloss, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: October 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0743244540
- Language: English
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “superb [and] intensely readable” (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies who achieved it–from… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0307888770
- Language: English
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The Patton Papers: 1940-1945
$37.50 Add to cart“One of World War II’s most brilliant and controversial generals, George S. Patton (1885-1945) fought in North Africa and Sicily, as commander of the Third Army, spearheaded the Allies’ spectacular 19… [more below]
- Author: Blumenson, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: August 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306807173
- Language: English
