Chronological Period/1940's
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Lake Michigan’s Aircraft Carriers
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for aircraft carrier training during WWII.
Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qu
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Somers, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0738532088
- Language: English
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Beyond Valor: World War II’s Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
$23.99 Add to cartThe thrilling story of the Airborne and Ranger troops that saw the worst of WWII action–told for the first time in the voices of the soldiers themselves.From the first parachute drops in North Africa… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: March 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0684873850
- Language: English
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Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, Fdr’s Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend.
“Son, we’re going to Hell.”- Author: Hornfischer, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0553384503
- Language: English
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper’s Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
$8.99 Read moreDavid Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his dis… [more below]
- Series: Dell War Series
- Author: Webster, David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0440240905
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the st- Author: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0767909135
- Language: English
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Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950
$40.00 Add to cartYou know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling phot… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Vieira, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 0762455233
- Language: English
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper’s Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
$22.00 Add to cartDavid Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his dis… [more below]
- Author: Webster, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0385336497
- Language: English
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Heinrich Himmler
$41.99 Add to cartHeinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler’s top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longeric… [more below]
- Author: Longerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651744
- Language: English
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Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
$42.99 Add to cartBetween December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg defending against an advancing Ge… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0199335141
- Language: English
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography–1949-1962
$18.99 Add to cart“The life she describes is heroic…yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel.”– San Francisco Chronicle
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s extraordinary a
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929561
- Language: English
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Fenway 1946: Red Sox, Peace, and a Year of Hope
$31.58 Add to cartFenway 1946 celebrates the city, the team, and the spirit of that wonderful 1946 season in Boston–a season, as usual, that broke fans’ hearts–as America returned to peacetime pastimes. And none was
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493067400
- Language: English
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The Roswell Deception and the Demystification of World War II
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Dietrich, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: July 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1937859231
- Language: English
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Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill Fdr, Churchill, and Stalin
$20.99 Add to cart“A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history.” — Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles
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- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0062872907
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day
$32.00 Read moreCelebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood Rangers
In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159087
- Language: English
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Nebraska POW Camps: A History of World War II Prisoners in the Heartland
$31.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POW… [more below]
- Author: Marsh, Melissa Amateis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1540223272
- Language: English
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Patton’s Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II (Original)
$22.99 Add to cartOn the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African-American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist lim… [more below]
- Author: Sasser, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743485009
- Language: English
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When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
$17.95 Add to cartThe untold story of the twenty-five-year struggle to free Soviet Jews, drawing on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews, and told from the perspective of th… [more below]
- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0547577478
- Language: English
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Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition
$21.99 Add to cartAn NPR Book of the Year
“A beautifully written, deeply intelligent book about [a] crucial moment.” — Fareed Zakaria, CNN Nobody expecte
A Seattle Times Book of the Year
William E. Colby Award Winner- Author: Hajari, Nisid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705394
- Language: English
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And the World Closed Its Doors: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust
$21.99 Add to cartIn this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would al… [more below]
- Author: Large, David Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0465038093
- Language: English
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Secret History of the IRA
$36.99 Add to cartFilled with disclosures and based on the author’s unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Delving deeply in
- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393325024
- Language: English
