Chronological Period/1940's
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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost
$18.99 Read moreIn the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s imagination. A “spirit photographer,” William Mumler, took portrait photographs that featured the
- Author: Manseau, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557065
- Language: English
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
$18.95 Add to cartA special 80th anniversary edition of this much-acclaimed title, to commemorate the extraordinary events of 1943
A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF- Author: Dumbach, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 086154675X
- Language: English
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For Crew and Country
$26.00 Add to cartIn For Crew and Country, John Wukovits tells of the most dramatic naval battle of the Pacific War and the incredible sacrifice of the USS Samuel B. Roberts.
On October 25, 1944, the Samuel B. Roberts,- Author: Wukovits, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1250041910
- Language: English
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Luck or Miracle: A World War II POW’s Survival Story
$34.95 Add to cart“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
Jim Bollich, a 102-year-old World War II soldier, offers a first-person account of courage, fortitude and the will to su
- Author: Bollich, Reginald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997784
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Bulge: Brothers Behind Enemy Lines
$14.95 Add to cartThe Battle of the Bulge: Brothers Behind Enemy Lines
In 1944, George Zak, a 19-year-old U.S. Army private first class, was captured on the front line during the Battle of the Bulge, the largest and one
- Author: Agnes, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0938075993
- Language: English
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Raising the Fleet
$28.00 Read moreOne of the greatest maritime salvage operations in US history took place for three years after the devastating attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Raising the Fleet follows the… [more below]
- Author: Arroyo, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0878426841
- Language: English
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches
$23.99 Add to cartWinston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their … [more below]
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0786888709
- Language: English
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Great Escape: Great Escape
$17.99 Add to cartExtravagantly praised by critics and readers, this stunning story by bestselling author Kati Marton tells of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what the… [more below]
- Author: Marton, Kati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 074326116X
- Language: English
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945
$25.99 Add to cartSea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japane
- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0743252225
- Language: English
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Commander in Chief: Fdr’s Battle with Churchill, 1943
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Nigel Hamilton’s acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDR’s yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy.
1943 was the year of Allied mil… [more below]
- Series: FDR at War #2
- Author: Hamilton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944461
- Language: English
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
$19.95 Add to cartNOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY, Winter Journey
Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany’s Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of G?uml;nther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courage
- Author: Goldsmith, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0471078646
- Language: English
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Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
$24.00 Add to cartThrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s “silent service”
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commandi- Author: Sasgen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312605536
- Language: English
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
$22.00 Add to cartThe prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account
On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109863
- Language: English
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Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945
$20.99 Add to cartThe man the New York Times has called “the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust” tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe.
- Author: Hilberg, Raul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0060995076
- Language: English
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Northwest Epic
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story about 1,500 miles of gravel road. Quickly built by the U.S. Army over an unmapped stretch of the Canadian Rockies in the tense aftermath of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the Alask… [more below]
- Author: Twichell, Heath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684920183
- Language: English
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Churchill’s American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two
$34.99 Add to cartChurchill’s American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the home-f… [more below]
- Author: Ferreiro, Larrie D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0197554016
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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Los Niños de Irena / Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2.500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
$17.95 Read moreTilar J. Mazzeo, autora bestseller de The New York Times, nos presenta una historia inspiradora sobre la extraordinaria y apasionante vida de Irena Sendler, una conmovedora versi?n femenina de Oskar S… [more below]
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 607315089X
- Language: Spanish
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
$20.00 Add to cartMax Hastings’s “exceptional” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the famous World War II D-Day landings “[will] stand with that of the best journalists and writers who witnessed it” (The New Y… [more below]
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1982110775
- Language: English
