Chronological Period/1940's

  • The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II

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    In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year’s World Series, one of the nation’s strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out colle… [more below]

    • Author: Keene, Anne R.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 408
    • Publish Date: April 21 2020
    • ISBN10: 1683583620
    • Language: English
  • The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery (Updated E

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    “A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way–ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously.” –Tom Brokaw

    The first book to tell the full st

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    • Author: Beyer, Rick
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1797225294
    • Language: English
  • Berlin Game: A Bernard Sampson Novel

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    Berlin Game begins with a plea from “Brahms Four,” one of Britain’s most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former

    • Series: Hook, Line, and Sinker Trilogy #1
    • Author: Deighton, Len
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 27, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0802162150
    • Language: English
  • The Only Woman in the Room

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER

    Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty.

    Her beauty almost certainly saved

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    • Author: Benedict, Marie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: August 06 2019
    • ISBN10: 1492666890
    • Language: English
  • Winter Garden

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    Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Kristin Hannah’s Winter Garden is one woman’s sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption. At once an epic love story set in World War II R

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    • Author: Hannah, Kristin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: January 04 2011
    • ISBN10: 0312663153
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Lost Names

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    “A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” –Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday

    • Author: Harmel, Kristin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: May 25, 2021
    • ISBN10: 198213190X
    • Language: English
  • The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives

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    For over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev

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    • Author: Hesemann, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 459
    • Publish Date: August 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1621643735
    • Language: English
  • Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

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    The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

    Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, wh

    • Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
    • Author: O’Reilly, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 10, 2019
    • ISBN10: 1250237092
    • Language: English
  • A Secret History of Witches

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    A sweeping historical saga that traces five generations of fiercely powerful mothers and daughters — witches whose magical inheritance is both a dangerous threat and an extraordinary gift.

    Brittany,

    • Author: Morgan, Louisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: May 01, 2018
    • ISBN10: 0316508586
    • Language: English
  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)–an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March–from the author of Bl

    • Author: Sides, Hampton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 07, 2002
    • ISBN10: 038549565X
    • Language: English
  • The Flame Bearer

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    The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)–the basis for

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    • Series: Saxon Tales #10
    • Author: Cornwell, Bernard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 31 2017
    • ISBN10: 0062250809
    • Language: English
  • Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler–the “female Oskar Schindler”–who took staggering risks to save 2,500 chi

    • Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: June 06, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1476778515
    • Language: English
  • The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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    Updated with enlightening new material, this is the complete, definitive edition of Anne Frank‘s diary, “the single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust” (The New York Times Book Review)[more below]

    • Author: Frank, Anne
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 03 1997
    • ISBN10: 0553577123
    • Language: English
  • Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children’s Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death

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    Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time).

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of t

    • Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
    • Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: January 12, 1999
    • ISBN10: 0385333846
    • Language: English
  • The Book Thief

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME

    The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.

    When Deat

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    • Author: Zusak, Markus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 608
    • Publish Date: September 11 2007
    • ISBN10: 0375842209
    • Language: English
  • Black Cross

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    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series comes a gripping World War II thriller that “vaporizes almost every clich about the limits of the genre… it’s] good enough to r[more below]

    • Series: World War II Thriller
    • Author: Iles, Greg
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 656
    • Publish Date: November 01 1995
    • ISBN10: 0451185196
    • Language: English
  • Her Last Betrayal

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    A gripping and thrilling tale….INCREDIBLE!.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    When working for the British Secret Service, Sarah Gillespie can trust no one, not even he

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    • Author: Lecky, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: November 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0008464871
    • Language: English
  • Loving

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    Drama unfolds between the servants and masters of an aristocratic Irish household in this “classic upstairs-downstairs story” set during World War II–for fans of Downton Abbey (Time)

    The war has led

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    • Author: Green, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 18 2016
    • ISBN10: 168137014X
    • Language: English
  • Between Shades of Gray

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    Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in

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    • Author: Sepetys, Ruta
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: January 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 143287361X
    • Language: English
  • A Bag of Marbles

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    In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father’s barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the Germ

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    • Author: Joffo, Joseph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: August 01 2013
    • ISBN10: 1467715166
    • Language: English
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