Chronological Period/1940's
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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In the Enemy’s House
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chro
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0062458264
- Language: English
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Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
$21.99 Add to cartThe classic biography of Hitler that remains, years after its publication, one of the most authoritative and readable accounts of his life. Here in an abridged edition.
- Author: Bullock, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0060920203
- Language: English
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The Last of the 357th Infantry: Harold Frank’s WWII Story of Faith and Courage
$19.99 Read moreFor those who loved Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers and E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed. Drawing on toughness and skills forged in hardscrabble Depression-era North Carolina, Bronze Star recipi… [more below]
- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Hager, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514045
- Language: English
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One Sunny Day: A Child’s Memories of Hiroshima
$29.95 Read more“Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mothe
- Author: Snider, Hideko Tamura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712330
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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Africa and World War II
$42.00 Add to cartThis volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research and innovative approaches to the historiography of Africa and br… [more below]
- Author: Byfield, Judith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: April 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1107630223
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work
$22.95 Read moreBetween 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees,
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209043
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$22.00 Add to cartThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975294
- Language: English
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Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account
$21.95 Add to cartThe hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the … [more below]
- Author: Dyess, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803266332
- Language: English
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943
$22.00 Add to cartFollowing The Rise of Germany, the acclaimed first volume in his War in the West trilogy, James Holland has crafted a masterful and gripping narrative of the events that ultimately determined the outc… [more below]
- Series: War in the West
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128572
- Language: English
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The Gun
$20.99 Add to cartIn a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through … [more below]
- Author: Chivers, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0743271734
- Language: English
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D-Days in the Pacific
$26.99 Add to cartAlthough most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II t… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0743269292
- Language: English
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt’s and Harry Truman’s private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the… [more below]
- Author: Beschloss, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: October 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0743244540
- Language: English
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German Generals Talk
$18.99 Add to cartThe German Generals who survived Hitler’s Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and
- Author: Hart, Basil H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0688060129
- Language: English
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
$39.00 Add to cartA revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency a- Author: Woolner, David B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0465048714
- Language: English
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of Fdr’s Great Supreme Court Justices
$21.99 Add to cartA tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America’s leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backc… [more below]
- Author: Feldman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0446699284
- Language: English
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Within These Lines
$17.99 Read more“Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated ” –Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning au
- Author: Morrill, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0310765234
- Language: English
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “superb [and] intensely readable” (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies who achieved it–from… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0307888770
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
