Chronological Period/1940's
-
Sergeant York
$14.99 Add to cartGrowing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equallyrenowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Year’s conversionconvinced him that killing was against God’s will, and y
- Series: Christian Encounters
- Author: Perry, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1595550259
- Language: English
-
Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s Story
$29.95 Add to cartThis remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Cle… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Clemens, Estate Of Alexandra C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1591141249
- Language: English
-
Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99 Add to cartNewcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite differe… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Dunnigan, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135704
- Language: English
-
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
$22.99 Add to cart“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America–Pearl Harbor–based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times be… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1451660502
- Language: English
-
Winston Churchill’s War Leadership
$15.00 Add to cartHow does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 140007732X
- Language: English
-
Nuts!: The Life & Times of General Tony McAuliffe
$14.99 Add to cartNuts! The Life & Times of General Tony McAuliffe
Award winning Author Tom McAuliffe, chronicles General “Nuts!” McAuliffe’s, Siege at Bastogne during WW2’s crucial Battle of the Bulge and his 35+ year
- Author: McAuliffe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986451107
- Language: English
-
Thompson Submachine Gun Caliber .45 M1928A1
$15.95 Add to cartOriginally invented by Brig. General John T. Thompson in 1918, the Thompson Submachine Gun was envisioned as a “one-man, hand-held machine gun” that would bring an end to WWI’s entrenched stalemate. T
- Author: Department, The War
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1937684199
- Language: English
-
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow
$19.00 Add to cartTrue story from the major motion picture “In Darkness,” official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1943, with Lvov’s 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into- Author: Chiger, Krystyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250018986
- Language: English
-
Colorado Women in World War II
$23.95 Add to cartFour months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that i
- Series: Timberline Books
- Author: Beaton, Gail M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1646425588
- Language: English
-
Memories of Army Life and MPs of the 529th: The Top Military Police Company in the United States Army of the 1970s
$29.95 Add to cartThe Top Military Police Company in the United States Army During the 1970s.
It isn’t often that one is able to maintain that his or her military unit was the top-dog in the entire United States Army,
- Author: Jackson, R. Olin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987228678
- Language: English
-
Japan’s Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan’s Mass Murder and Rape During World War II
$21.99 Read moreJapan’s Holocaust is a comprehensive exploration of Japan’s mass murder and sexual crimes during the Pacific and Asian Wars from 1927 to 1945.
Japan’s Holocaust combines research conducted in over eig- Author: Rigg, Bryan Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1637586884
- Language: English
-
George and Russ: Soldiers, Husbands, Fathers, and Friends: A Gripping Story Based on Real Events During WWII
$37.00 Add to cartA captivating and moving exploration of two soldiers who put it all on the line to preserve our freedom – from the author of Landing On Your Feet.
Today we struggle to navigate an increasingly complex
- Author: Kerrison, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886833997
- Language: English
-
Kinderszenen
$20.00 Add to cartAn old man-poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar-sifts through the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like to grow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II. T
- Author: Rymkiewicz, Jaroslaw Marek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821503
- Language: English
-
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$35.00 Add to cartA masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the p- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Jenkins, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: November 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069593
- Language: English
-
Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
$19.00 Add to cartIn March, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary, followed soon after by Adolf Eichmann and his SS Sondercommando. His single goal was to eliminate the entire Jewish population of the country. Rez… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0802717411
- Language: English
-
1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders comes a riveting chronicle of America’s most critical hour. On December 6, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared… [more below]
- Author: Groom, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142508
- Language: English
-
A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America’s Most Important Spy in World War II
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz Kolbe, who had … [more below]
- Author: Delattre, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142311
- Language: English
-
Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
$45.00 Add to cartIt is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people–mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others–lost their lives…. [more below]
- Author: Van Pelt, Robert Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 789213311
- Language: English
-
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
$19.99 Add to cartCompleted shortly before Ambrose’s untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation’s history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians.
Ambrose ro- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743252128
- Language: English
-
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945
$35.99 Add to cartThis true account of spycraft in the UK during World War II is “spellbinding…a compelling insider’s view to the shadow war: intrigue and treachery, double-dealing and deception, hope and despair, tr… [more below]
- Author: Marks, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 068486780X
- Language: English
