Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General
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Building the National WWII Museum
$34.95 Add to cartAs the second-most visited museum in the United States, The National WWII Museum attracts hundreds of thousands of patrons every year to its campus in New Orleans. Guests can tour its extensive perman
- Author: Mueller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179515
- Language: English
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The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945
$26.00 Add to cartAn absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power.
“This is history in the- Series: History of the Third Reich
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116711
- Language: English
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The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
$22.95 Read more“An immensely valuable and substantial addition to 10th Mountain literature and to the history of skiing in the United States.”
– International Ski History AssociationThe Boys of Winter tells the true
- Author: Sanders, Charles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: July 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0870818236
- Language: English
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Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
$42.99 Add to cartPeter Caddick-Adams’s account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called th… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0190601892
- Language: English
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The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany
$31.95 Add to cartIn The Price of Truth, Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy’s controversial sc
- Author: Fine, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501765949
- Language: English
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Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture, comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivota… [more below]
- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 593185315
- Language: English
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Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
$20.99 Add to cartIn Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America’s greatest secret and our worst military disaster.
Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previ- Series: Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
- Author: Stinnett, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08, 2001
- ISBN10: 0743201299
- Language: English
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American St. Nick: A TRUE story of Christmas and WWII that’s never been forgotten
$20.00 Add to cartThe American St. Nick tells the remarkable TRUE story of a handful of American soldiers who during the chaos of war, help bring Christmas back a small Luxembourg town, and unknowingly create a holiday
- Author: Lion, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 30 2019
- ISBN10: 057848174X
- Language: English
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
$19.99 Add to cartMeticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II–an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyal
- Author: Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 006235194X
- Language: English
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After the Blessing: Mexican American Veterans of WWII Tell Their Own Stories
$26.95 Add to cart“This lieutenant gets up there and says, ‘American soldiers don’t huddle and put their hands in their pockets on a cold day. They stand at attention.’ . . . [there was a] buzz . . . in Spanish . . . ‘… [more below]
- Author: Read, Esther Bonilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0875658040
- Language: English
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
$33.82 Read moreA “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review
“Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”
—Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leona- Author: Clark, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1620971860
- Language: English
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Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
$21.99 Add to cartAward-winning journalist Ruth Gruber’s powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II
In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refu- Author: Gruber, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1453206337
- Language: English
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Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy
$37.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy.
In the first week of December 1
- Author: Jett, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429374
- Language: English
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The Psycho Boys: How a Unit of Refugees, Artists, and Professors Fought Back Against the Third Reich
$27.95 Read moreThey were not your typical World War II soldiers. Most were not in particularly good physical shape, and many had trouble handling their weapons. They differed widely in their ages, politics, and skil
- Author: Eddy, Beverley Driver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0811773620
- Language: English
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Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.
$39.95 Add to cartThis is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achievements and legacy of one of the war’s top combat adm… [more below]
- Author: Stillwell, Paul L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 168247593X
- Language: English
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The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
$27.99 Add to cartArthur Goodzeit Award
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and t- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623434
- Language: English
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The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
$22.00 Add to cart“Beautifully researched and masterfully told” (Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from the Deep), this is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that hel… [more below]
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1439176841
- Language: English
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Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France
$34.95 Add to cartDoctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Th
- Author: Hampton, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 080717873X
- Language: English
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The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
$34.99 Add to cartBy 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: July 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0700630384
- Language: English
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The Hump: America’s Strategy for Keeping China in World War II
$29.95 Add to cartChronicling the most ambitious airlift in history . . . Carried out over arguably the world’s most rugged terrain, in its most inhospitable weather system, and under the constant threat of enemy attac
- Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History #134
- Author: Plating, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1623495962
- Language: English
