Chronological Period/1940's
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Obasan
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the American Book Award
Based on the author’s own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of J- Author: Kogawa, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 27 1993
- ISBN10: 0385468865
- Language: English
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Valentine Infantry Tank Vs Panzer III: North Africa 1941-43
$23.00 Read moreA unique comparison between the two most numerous British and German tank types from 1941 to 1943.
Although much has been written about the Panzer III, little attention has been given to the equally p- Series: Duel #132
- Author: Newsome, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857275
- Language: English
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Japanese Combined Fleet 1941-42: The Ijn at Its Zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway
$23.00 Read moreLaunching Osprey’s new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s striking force at the height of its power.
The Imperial Japa- Series: Fleet #1
- Author: Stille, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856430
- Language: English
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The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
$37.00 Read moreA groundbreaking new account of the Battle of Britain from acclaimed Cambridge historian James Holland
‘If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war, ‘ Churchill said in the summ- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 125000215X
- Language: English
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The Reconquest of Burma 1944-45: From Operation Capital to the Sittang Bend
$25.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of the dramatic battles and Allied operations to wrest back control of Burma (Myanmar) from the Japanese.
The Allied reconquest of Burma was not part of Allied Grand Strategy- Series: Campaign #390
- Author: Lyman, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854063
- Language: English
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The Lost Song of Paris
$12.99 Read more‘For a moment she closed her eyes and imagined she was perched on the diving board at the Piscine Molitor, the sun beating down on her bare shoulders and the sound of Parisians at play beneath her. Al
- Author: Steele, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472294289
- Language: English
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Nimitz
$33.95 Read moreCalled a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the firs… [more below]
- Author: Potter, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1591145805
- Language: English
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A Place to Belong
$9.99 Add to cartFive starred reviews
“Another gift from Kadohata to her readers.” —Booklist (starred review) A Japanese American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese imprisonment camps, gives up- Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1481446657
- Language: English
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Mother’s Boy
$26.99 Read more‘Tender, evocative’ TLS
‘Richly engaging’ Spectator
A Radio 4 Serial Fiction Book of the Week ‘A characteristically tender novel about a young man growing up in the shadow of one war and the whispers- Author: Gale, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1472257413
- Language: English
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Soldier Dogs: Heroes on the Home Front
$9.99 Read moreTwin siblings give their dog to the Coast Guard during WWII only to discover a German threat in their hometown. The sixth book in the action-packed Soldier Dogs series that’s perfect for fans of Hero
- Series: Soldier Dogs #6
- Author: Sutter, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 006295797X
- Language: English
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The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
$19.99 Add to cart“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA).
The twen… [more below]
- Author: Bell, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0618919813
- Language: English
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The Interrogator: The Story of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe
$35.00 Add to cartScharff, a German Intelligence Officer, gained the reputation as the man who could magically get all the answers he needed from the prisoners of war. In most cases, the POWs being interrogated never r… [more below]
- Series: Schiffer Military History
- Author: Toliver, Raymond F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0764302612
- Language: English
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Pby Catalina: Consolidated’s Flying Boat in WWII
$24.99 Read moreThe PBY Catalina, designed and produced by Consolidated Aircraft, whose production was supplemented by that of Boeing Canada, Canadian Vickers, and the Naval Aircraft Factory, was the most widely used… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #58
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366459
- Language: English
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The Family Morfawitz
$27.99 Read moreFrom acclaimed author Daniel H. Turtel, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel, comes The Family Morfawitz, a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
When Hadassah M
- Author: Turtel, Daniel H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
- Language: English
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The Gates of Zion
$15.99 Add to cartThe Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel’s statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forc… [more below]
- Series: Zion Chronicles #1
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1414301022
- Language: English
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Sell Us the Rope
$18.00 Read more“Sell Us the Rope is original, adept and confident, with the spry sardonic voice of the new historical fiction: it is entertaining and in the end, deeply moving.” -Hilary Mantel
“A deeply satisfying n- Author: May, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639731431
- Language: English
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Las Vidas Perdidas/ Lost Lives
$23.95 Read moreUno de los autores españoles más traducidos y leÃdos en Estados Unidos y en otros catorce paÃses.
Más de 300.000 ejemplares vendidos.
Esta narración impecablemente documentada nos cuenta la incr… [more below]- Author: Escobar, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8466674993
- Language: Spanish
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Switchboard Soldiers
$30.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I–the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gende
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0063241978
- Language: English
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The Lily Cupboard
$9.99 Read moreMiriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland.
- Author: Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0064433935
- Language: English
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F8f Bearcat: Grumman’s Late-War Dogfighter
$19.99 Read moreThe Grumman F8F was a fast, agile, carrier-borne fighter aircraft developed as the ultimate dogfighter for the Pacific theater. Although the plane did make it into production, with some examples even … [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #64
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367013
- Language: English
