Chronological Period/1940's
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Barefoot Gen Volume 8: Merchants of Death
$16.95 Read moreBarefoot Gen Volume Eight ―”Merchants of Death” ― It’s 1950 and Gen is now in middle school, where he meets both a progressive-minded schoolteacher at odds with his conservative superiors,… [more below]
- Series: Barefoot Gen #8
- Author: Nakazawa, Keiji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0867195991
- Language: English
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P-38 Lightning Vs Bf 109: North Africa, Sicily and Italy 1942-43
$23.00 Read moreAn exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF’s P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger‘s Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean.
USAAF fighter pilots experienced a- Series: Duel #131
- Author: Young, Edward M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472859545
- Language: English
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Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future
$17.99 Read moreClick. Whir. Buzz.
Not so long ago, math problems had to be solved with pencil and paper, mail delivered by postman, and files were stored in paper folders and metal cabinets. But three women, Betty Sn… [more below]- Author: Brown, Tami Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1368011055
- Language: English
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76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa
$27.99 Read moreThe gripping historical novel of the invasion of Tarawa by US Marines in World War II, from bestselling author, journalist, and historian Larry Alexander.
The island of Tarawa, a tiny spit of sand out
- Author: Alexander, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798200816002
- Language: English
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The 406th Fighter Group: P-47s Over Europe in World War II
$19.99 Read moreThis is the little-known story of the 406th Fighter Group, a famous but unsung P-47 unit in the European theater of operations (ETO) in WWII. The 406th was the first unit in the ETO to employ the 5-in… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Units #2
- Author: Brandt, Steven A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366521
- Language: English
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Waffen-SS on the Western Front: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
$24.95 Read moreThis book in the popular Images of War series covers the deeds of the Waffen-SS on the Western Front during the Second World War. With extensive text and in-depth captions with many rare and unpublish… [more below]
- Series: Images of War
- Author: Baxter, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1781591857
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War
$19.95 Read moreWWII expert Stevens shows us the incredible and suppressed technology of the Third Reich and their desire to create highly advanced “wingless” aircraft-yes, flying saucers! Learn why the Schriever-Hab… [more below]
- Author: Stevens, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1935487914
- Language: English
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Last Times
$19.95 Read moreA story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France.
Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based–like much of his fiction–on first- Author: Serge, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1681375141
- Language: English
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Eyes Turned Skyward
$17.99 Add to cart“Eyes Turned Skyward is a powerful examination of the cost–emotional, familial, generational–when women are denied their right to soar… Alena Dillon’s poetic prose and complex characters will ling
- Author: Dillon, Alena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 006314476X
- Language: English
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Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II
$44.95 Read more“This story of the Wright Project comprehensively captures an important but under-appreciated element of airpower history…” — Lieutenant General Bruce “Orville” Wright, USAF (ret)
In August 1943, a … [more below]
- Author: Lawless, Richard Phillip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242057
- Language: English
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The Charioteer
$16.00 Add to cartAfter enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objec… [more below]
- Author: Renault, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0375714189
- Language: English
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
$19.95 Add to cartOn April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refinerie
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352277
- Language: English
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Someone Named Eva
$9.99 Read moreA gripping tale of one girl’s struggle against the Nazis.
“Remember who you are, Milada.” Milada’s grandmother says these words on the night the Nazi soldiers come to their home in Czechoslovakia. But- Author: Wolf, Joan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547237669
- Language: English
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de Gaulle
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize
In this definitive biography of the mythic general
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0674241452
- Language: English
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My Darling Boys: A Family at War, 1941-1947 Volume 23
$34.95 Read moreMy Darling Boys is the story of a New Mexico farm family whose three sons were sent to fight in World War II. All flew combat aircraft in the Army Air Forces. In 1973 one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a… [more below]
- Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir
- Author: Allison, Fred H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419064
- Language: English
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Solomons Air War Volume 2: Guadalcanal & Santa Cruz October 1942
$48.95 Read more“Well-written, easy to comprehend, and informative. It is an excellent source for the Pacific air war enthusiast.” — Large Scale Planes
This second volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare… [more below]
- Author: Claringbould, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0645700452
- Language: English
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Hermanos de Sangre
$30.95 Read more- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 841821774X
- Language: Spanish
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The Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troopers in World War II
$39.95 Add to cart“What is engaging about this book is that you get to hear the authentic voices of the soldiers through their memoirs, journal entries, and letters. Some are long, some are short, but all are worth rea… [more below]
- Author: Minge, Olaf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1636243231
- Language: English
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Walking D-Day
$24.95 Read morePaul Reed’s latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The pla… [more below]
- Series: Battleground Europe
- Author: Reed, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2012
- ISBN10: 1848848366
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
