1939-1945 - Underground movements
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Squirrel Is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground
$15.95 Read moreA sure to be classic in Holocaust literature from an underrepresented voice.
Squirrel is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground is the incredible story of Mary Rostad’s ear- Author: Rostad, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1682753778
- Language: English
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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
$32.00 Read moreThe New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous en
Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022
Booklist, Best Books of 2022- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 154170066X
- Language: English
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My Mother’s War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Fighter Survived Three Concentration Camps
$18.99 Read more“A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.”–Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1335469532
- Language: English
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The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe
$35.00 Read moreA remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away.
To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-tor- Author: Yenne, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1472858719
- Language: English
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Daring Women of D-Day: Bold Spies of World War II
$8.99 Read moreAn action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Ger… [more below]
- Series: Women Warriors of World War II
- Author: Trunfio, Alessia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 166901357X
- Language: English
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance du
- Author: Kix, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062322532
- Language: English
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life
$26.95 Add to cartThe gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
- Author: Kaminsky, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0997003472
- 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 Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
$29.95 Add to cartWhen World War I ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to work for the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920s and 1930s, these veteran-gardeners married local
- Author: Deangelis, Caitlin Galante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1633888991
- Language: English
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The Paris Dressmaker
$17.99 Add to cartBased on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II–from fashion houses to the city streets–comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an
- Author: Cambron, Kristy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0785232168
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
$45.00 Add to cart“To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . .” –Dutch resister Herman Friedhoff
In every country that fell to the Third Reich d
- Author: Kochanski, Halik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091657
- Language: English
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Daring Women of D-Day: Bold Spies of World War II
$36.65 Read moreAn action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Ger… [more below]
- Series: Women Warriors of World War II
- Author: Trunfio, Alessia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669013626
- Language: English
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Hugh O’Flaherty: The Irish Priest Who Resisted the Nazis
$12.95 Read moreMonsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was working in the Vatican when dictator Benito Mussolini fell from power and Germany invaded Italy in 1943. This courageous Irish priest who resisted the Nazi occupation was
- Series: Vision Books
- Author: De Maria, Fiorella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1621645789
- Language: English
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The Scarlet and the Black: The True Story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, Hero of the Vatican Underground
$17.95 Add to cartIt has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: espionage, conspiracy, a struggle against evil powers, undercover work by dark of night… but it’s all true. The Scarlet and the Black t… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 28 2009
- ISBN10: 1586174096
- Language: English
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Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–And WWII Heroes
$29.00 Add to cartThe astonishing true story of three fearless female teenage resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands
“Exhaustively researched- Author: Brady, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0806540389
- Language: English
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II
“Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestap- Author: Rose, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 0451495098
- Language: English
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The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation
$32.00 Read moreThe secret history of one of the largest–and least-known–rescue operations of World War II
Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable–and unt- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619854
- Language: English
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
$20.99 Add to cartA Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation’s leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resol- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374300224
- Language: English
