Chronological Period/1940's
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By: Ranger, Alan
Staff Cars in Germany Ww2: Volume 3 – Mercedes
$22.00PaperbackRead moreA collection of photographs highlighting the Mercedes models used by Germany during World War II.
In the third volume of this publication, the cars of the Mercedes motor company major production types … [more below]
- Series: Camera on
- Author: Ranger, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 08 2024
- ISBN10: 8367227190
- Language: English
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By: Chater, Lauren
The Lace Weaver
$12.95PaperbackRead more1941, Estonia. As Stalin’s brutal Red Army crushes everything in its path, Katarina Rebane is desperate to protect her grandmother’s precious legacy: the weaving of gossamer-fine shawls and the intric
- Author: Chater, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 19 2023
- ISBN10: 074902920X
- Language: English
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By: Doyle, David
K5 Rail Gun: Krupp’s WWII Behemoth
$24.99HardcoverRead moreAnzio Annie, Anzio Express, “Leopold”; known by many names, the German 8 cm Kanone 5 Eisenbahngesch?z (railway gun), commonly abbreviated K5(E), was the most successful and widely used of Germany’s ra… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Ground #38
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366440
- Language: English
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By: Hale, Julian
The Blitz 1940-41: The Luftwaffe’s Biggest Strategic Bombing Campaign
$25.00PaperbackRead moreAn illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended ‘the Blitz’ to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain’s defences and civilians responded.
The- Series: Air Campaign #38
- Author: Hale, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857887
- Language: English
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By: Stern, Robert C.
Knife’s Edge: South Pacific Carrier Battles from the Eastern Solomons to Santa Cruz
$41.95HardcoverRead moreWhile the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife… [more below]
- Author: Stern, Robert C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682475689
- Language: English
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By: Orlando, Robert
The Tragedy of Patton a Soldier’s Date with Destiny: Could World War II’s Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
$27.99HardcoverRead more“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” — General George S. Patton
It is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life, P
- Author: Orlando, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1630061751
- Language: English
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Leaving Lymon
$8.99PaperbackAdd to cartA companion novel to Finding Langston, recipient of a Coretta Scott King Writing Honor and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction.
Behind every bad boy is a story worth hearing and a- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy #2
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0823449424
- Language: English
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By: Lester, Natasha
The Riviera House
$15.99PaperbackAdd to cartA lush and engrossing novel of one woman’s quest to keep Nazis from stealing priceless art during WWII, perfect for fans of The Rose Code.
Paris, 1939: The Nazis think ?liane can’t understand German.- Author: Lester, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 153871731X
- Language: English
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By: Fields, Jennie
Atomic Love
$18.00PaperbackRead more“A novel of science, love, espionage, beautiful writing, and a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men. As far as I’m concerned there is nothing left to want.”–Ann Patchett, author The D… [more below]
- Author: Fields, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0593085345
- Language: English
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By: Mauceri, John
The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
$32.00HardcoverRead moreA fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
“[Mauceri’s] writing is mo- Author: Mauceri, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300233701
- Language: English
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By: Dobson, Melanie
The Winter Rose
$15.99PaperbackRead moreIn this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy… [more below]
- Author: Dobson, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1496444221
- Language: English
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By: Todd, Charles
A Fatal Lie
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart“If there’s ever been a more complex and compelling hero in crime fiction than Inspector Rutledge, I can’t think of one.” –Jeffery Deaver
In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ia
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #23
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0062905562
- Language: English
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By: Miller, Sarah
Marmee
$29.99PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy
- Author: Miller, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0063266075
- Language: English
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A Castle in Brooklyn
$14.95PaperbackRead moreSpanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendship, and the dream of finding home.
1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under t
- Author: Russak Wachtel, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662508751
- Language: English
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By: Ford, Richard
Canada
$18.99PaperbackRead more“First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.”
So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writ
- Author: Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0061692034
- Language: English
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Corelli’s Mandolin
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history: “An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent” (Los Angeles… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: de Bernieres, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 29 1995
- ISBN10: 067976397X
- Language: English
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By: Nakazawa, Keiji
Barefoot Gen, Volume 4
$25.00HardcoverAdd to cartBeautiful new hardcover edition of Barefoot Gen Volume Four! Striking new design with special sturdy binding.
Barefoot Gen is the powerful, tragic, autobiographical story of the bombing of Hiroshima a… [more below]- Series: Barefoot Gen #4
- Author: Nakazawa, Keiji
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0867198346
- Language: English
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By: Bacque, James
Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II
$24.95PaperbackRead moreOther Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower’s policies caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in
- Author: Bacque, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0889226652
- Language: English
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By: Konstam, Angus
The Convoy: Hg-76: Taking the Fight to Hitler’s U-Boats
$35.00HardcoverRead moreThe Convoy represents a fresh approach to the story of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also the first to deal with the more spectacular story of HG-76, a major turning point in the naval war.
HG-76- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857682
- Language: English
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By: Young, Edward M.
F4F Wildcat: South Pacific 1942-43
$23.00PaperbackRead moreThis book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy’s standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force’s Mitsubis
- Series: Dogfight #9
- Author: Young, Edward M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854861
- Language: English






