Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General
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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$26.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War II. His fear was shared by many. The North Atlantic … [more below]
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190905832
- Language: English
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The Diary Keepers: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It
$20.00 Add to cartA riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times
Based on select writings
- Author: Siegal, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063070669
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945
$16.99 Add to cart“Otto Friedrich’s powerful portrayal of Auschwitz is both an extraordinary reminder of the human capacity for evil and an eloquent message to humanity never to let such things happen again.” –Arthur
- Author: Friedrich, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 19 1994
- ISBN10: 0060976403
- Language: English
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The Last of the 357th Infantry: Harold Frank’s WWII Story of Faith and Courage
$25.99 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]
- Author: Hager, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 168451245X
- Language: English
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Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
$29.99 Read moreLate in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refug… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Charles E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 168451262X
- Language: English
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White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler
$32.00 Add to cartThey were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitor… [more below]
- Author: Dunkel, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0306922185
- Language: English
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Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II
$44.95 Add to cart2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner
In the chaotic days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt administrati
2020-21 Reader Views Literary Awards Bronze Medal Winner- Author: Solomon, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 164012084X
- Language: English
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
$22.99 Add to cart“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America–Pearl Harbor–based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times be… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1451660502
- Language: English
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1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders comes a riveting chronicle of America’s most critical hour. On December 6, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared… [more below]
- Author: Groom, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142508
- Language: English
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A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America’s Most Important Spy in World War II
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz Kolbe, who had … [more below]
- Author: Delattre, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142311
- Language: English
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartFrom America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.
This aut- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856298
- Language: English
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Origins of the Second World War
$18.99 Add to cartFrom influential British historian A.J.P. Taylor, a reprint of his influential text The Origins of the Second World War. Controversial for his thesis that Hitler was an opportunist with no thorough pl… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, A. J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684829479
- Language: English
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The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices from Leyte Gulf
$24.00 Add to cartUses personal accounts of the veterans who achieved victory in the biggest and last great naval battle, largely fought with aging ships, untested reserve crews, and teenaged combat aircraft pilots.
Aut… [more below]
- Author: Sears, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 045122132X
- Language: English
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Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer
$30.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
A well-rese… [more below]- Series: Aviation Week Books
- Author: O’Neill, Brian D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: May 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0071341455
- Language: English
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
The epic true story of Dunkirk–now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance
In 1940, the Al
- Author: Levine, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 006274030X
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
$19.99 Add to cart“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messi
- Series: Resistance Quartet #2
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062202480
- Language: English
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Coffee with Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis
$29.95 Read more*A Telegraph and Spectator Best Book of the Year*
The fascinating story of how an eccentric group of intelligence agents used amateur diplomacy to penetrate the Nazi high command in an effort to preve- Author: Spicer, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362266
- Language: English
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Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Dillon Book Award
“Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense.” —Wall Street Journal
A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and
- Author: Kemper, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063268175
- Language: English
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April 1945: The Hinge of History
$31.99 Read moreAcclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged
- Author: Shirley, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1400217083
- Language: English
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The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
$28.99 Add to cartA panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War–a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.
Berlin- Author: Hett, Benjamin Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798760
- Language: English
