Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$24.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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Defenders of the Reich: The Luftwaffe’s War Against America’s Bombers
$40.00 Add to cartThe story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm’s desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II.
The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die ca- Author: Forsyth, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1472862864
- Language: English
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
$32.00 Add to cartWith a new foreword from bestselling author Alex Kershaw, the bestselling classic that tells the astonishing, definitive story of the greatest rescue mission, featuring the previously unknown role of … [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Gregory A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217182220
- Language: English
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Omaha Beach
$21.95 Add to cartBalkoski’s depiction of ‘Bloody Omaha’ is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. — John Hillen, New York Post
- Author: Balkoski, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0811733769
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of Am
$42.00 Add to cartSara Vladic, New York Times bestselling author of Indianapolis, reveals the gripping, untold history of the United States under attack during World War II and the improbable patriots who stepped up to
- Author: Vladic, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0063321041
- Language: English
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The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
$19.00 Add to cartThe Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974883
- Language: English
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The Navigator’s Letter: The True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them Together
$32.50 Add to cartThe Navigator’s Letter brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II, chronicling a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood, and love.
On- Author: Dondi, Jan Cress
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1454956356
- Language: English
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Emilio Pucci: The Astonishing Odyssey of a Fashion Icon
$35.00 Add to cartThe Drama of War and Postwar Italy Through the Life of One of Its Most Celebrated Icons
When people think of fashion designer Emilio Pucci, it is of his bright, swirling colors and easy, freeing fabric- Author: Ward, Terence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 125028967X
- Language: English
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Closing the Ring
$25.00 Add to cartThe fifth volume in Winston Churchill’s magnificent history of World War II, the British prime minister and Nobel Prize winner recounts how the Allies took the fight to the enemy in this vivid histori… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0005
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0395410592
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American and The Economist
The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the sie- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007673
- Language: English
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Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
$26.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER – A gripping history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II
“An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting b- Author: Bouverie, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0451499859
- Language: English
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Letters Home from World War II: St. Louis
$22.50 Add to cart- Author: Gordon, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066041
- Language: English
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State of War: A History of World War II in Florida
$28.00 Add to cartA deeply researched history of Florida’s strategic and
The first book to share
military roles in World War II
the entire history of Florida’s involvement in World War II, State of
War explores how the- Author: Atwood, Anthony D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081157
- Language: English
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Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the “900 days and nights” of the Siege of Leningrad set within an expansive history of the iconic city, from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin.
In the crucible of World War II, Sain- Author: McKay, Sinclair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100224
- Language: English
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Fighting Fifteen: The Navy’s Top Ace and the Deadliest Hellcat Squadron of the Pacific War
$35.00 Add to cartThe inspiring, action-packed tale of VF-15, the elite group of U.S. Navy “top gun” pilots that destroyed more enemy planes than any other Pacific War squadron.
David McCampbell ended his tour of duty- Author: Moore, Stephen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593475860
- Language: English
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TM 9-803 Willys-Overland MB and Ford Model GPW Jeep Technical Manual
$21.95 Add to cartDesignated as a light truck, the Jeep was the primary four-wheel drive vehicle for the U.S. Army during WWII. The Jeep’s design owed a great deal to Karl Probst, a freelance designer employed by the A… [more below]
- Author: Army, U. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1937684954
- Language: English
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The Road to Cisterna: Darby’s Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II
$44.95 Add to cartThe Road to Cisterna is the story of Darby’s Rangers, an elite American army unit in World War II, selected for toughness and specially trained in beach landings and lightning raids deep behind enemy
- Author: Williams, David Lyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185035
- Language: English
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America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
$22.00 Add to cartBestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America’s role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: Presiden… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593686578
- Language: English
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The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea–The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
$22.00 Add to cartA harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campaign that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering.
Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division’s “Ghost Mountain Boys” were a- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0307335976
- Language: English
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Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team
$16.00 Add to cartA magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America’s great twentieth-century writers
A Penguin Classic On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105914
- Language: English
