Chronological Period/1940's
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What If? II: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
$24.00 Add to cartWhat if Lincoln didn’t abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing “what if…” scenarios by some of today’s greatest historical minds-inc… [more below]
- Series: What If Essays
- Author: Cowley, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 042518613X
- Language: English
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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
$19.99 Add to cartThe poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examini- Author: Desbois, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617573
- Language: English
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
$21.00 Add to cart“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our … [more below]
- Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226619516
- Language: English
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
$20.00 Add to cartDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz’s Angel o… [more below]
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette Matalon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140169318
- Language: English
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Indestructible: The Unforgettable Memoir of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
$18.99 Add to cartMedal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas’s classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima–with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020.
O- Author: Lucas, Jack H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 62795627
- Language: English
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How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals
$24.95 Add to cartMore than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II.
- Author: Hoyt, Edwin P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071955
- Language: English
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Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives
$18.99 Add to cartTwo soliders of World War II, one American, a member of the Easy Company “Band of Brothers,” and one a German, fight in the Battle of the Bulge, then meet decades later and help deliver one another fr… [more below]
- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Welch, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513030
- Language: English
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The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution
$25.00 Add to cartIn The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution, New York Times bestselling author Chris DeRose reveals the true,
- Author: DeRose, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250808529
- Language: English
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Dragonfly Dreams
$16.95 Add to cart“If a dragonfly lands on you, it means change is coming.
You better watch your dreams, Nini.”
Living in China when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Nini and her family don’t realize that their world is
- Author: Cooper, Eleanor McCallie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1646634217
- Language: English
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany
$17.99 Add to cartNazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler’s inner circle.
Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann–na- Author: Wyllie, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250815967
- Language: English
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Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village
$24.95 Add to cartMimi Schwartz’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he’d tell her, “We all got along.” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, … [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496221206
- Language: English
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The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
$16.99 Add to cart*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER *
The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a “must-read” book. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangero- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Brown, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1684511895
- Language: English
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Glenn Miller Declassified
$29.95 Add to cartOn December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere ove
- Author: Spragg, Dennis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123083
- Language: English
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On Guerrilla Warfare
$24.99 Add to cartThe book is written in the context of China’s guerrilla war against Japanese occupiers; this conflict is mentioned often by Mao. In this book Mao discusses the differences between guerrilla and “ortho… [more below]
- Author: Zedong, Mao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 17 2007
- ISBN10: 9563100131
- Language: English
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Pure Soldiers Or Sinister Legion -The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division
$43.00 Add to cartBETWEEN 1950 AND 1955, thousands of veterans from the notorious German-led, Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division emigrated to North America with the full consent of the respective governments despite imm… [more below]
- Author: Littman, Sol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1939561337
- Language: English
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Attack at Dawn: Reliving the Battle of Narvik in World War II
$19.99 Add to cartOn March 1, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe at a terrifying pace, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable source of iron ore b… [more below]
- Author: Cope, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: April 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1909477974
- Language: English
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My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March, New Edition
$19.95 Add to cartCaptured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an und… [more below]
- Series: Memories of War
- Author: Tenney, Lester I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1640121129
- Language: English
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Life After Manzanar
$28.00 Read moreFrom the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement” the relatively unexamined period wh… [more below]
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144002
- Language: English
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A Covert Affair
$20.99 Add to cartBy bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were ca
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439163537
- Language: English
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War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944
$32.95 Add to cartWar and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the surrender of Allied forces in May 1942 and MacArthur’s r… [more below]
- Author: Morningstar, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1557501718
- Language: English
