Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General
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Army of Shadows
$22.00 Add to cartOriginally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra Mundum Press is
- Author: Kessel, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 07 2017
- ISBN10: 194062522X
- Language: English
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Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY
An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die “This eloquent and p- Author: McManus, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0451475054
- Language: English
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
$18.95 Add to cartIt began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and s
- Author: Olson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868354
- Language: English
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Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
$21.95 Add to cartAward-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.
The “Devil Dogs” of- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365761
- Language: English
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, a World War II spy adventure set in Norway that draws on top-secret documents and memoirs of the sabot… [more below]
- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544947290
- Language: English
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Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Desperadoes Who Plotted Hitler’s Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-Day Black Ops
$17.99 Add to cartIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain’s wartime leader called for the lightning development of a … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1529432332
- Language: English
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Vanishing Point: The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front
$29.95 Add to cartIn Vanishing Point, award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie, and an eclectic group of enthusiasts who have spent years
- Author: Wilber, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501769642
- Language: English
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The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue re… [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032941
- Language: English
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bi… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848015
- Language: English
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Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
$18.95 Add to cartIn a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945–Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092882
- Language: English
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
$35.00 Read moreThis masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War–the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944–when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan’s far
- Series: Pacific War Trilogy #2
- Author: Toll, Ian W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0393080641
- Language: English
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
$18.99 Add to cartStephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0743223098
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day
$22.00 Add to cartCelebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood Rangers
In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160387
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
$26.00 Read more” The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”–Chicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968581
- Language: English
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History
A New York Times Notable Book
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307475530
- Language: English
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Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D Day
$19.99 Add to cartThe unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II–the Allied invasion of Normandy.The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0671890913
- Language: English
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
$24.99 Read moreWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
“The Good War“ is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian.- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1565843436
- Language: English
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Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II
$28.00 Add to cartNever has the saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” had more truth than when the US government and the criminal underground joined forces to defeat the Nazi menace. For the first time ever the f… [more below]
- Author: Black, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0806542152
- Language: English
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The Battle of Midway
$22.99 Add to cartThere are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199315981
- Language: English
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Against All Odds, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.
“Meet the assaulters: pathfin- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 045149007X
- Language: English
