Chronological Period/1940's
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World War 2: A Captivating Guide from Beginning to End
$29.99 Add to cartExplore How World War 2 Began, the Aftermath and the Events in Between
The Second World War was one of the most traumatic events in human history. Across the world, existing conflicts became connected
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647485568
- Language: English
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
$30.00 Add to cartThe year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year-old boy living in Baltimore. As the war rages somewhere far beyond the boundaries of his hometow… [more below]
- Author: Osgood, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 30 2007
- ISBN10: 1401300235
- Language: English
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The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the Oss, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
$21.00 Add to cartJohn Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch–The Dirty Tricks Department–and its role in World War II.
In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial- Author: Lisle, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250838487
- Language: English
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The Irregulars
$20.00 Add to cartFollowing her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, here is a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intri… [more below]
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0743294599
- Language: English
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Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend
$30.99 Add to cartThe story of Willie Mays’s rookie year with the Negro American League’s Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend
Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is o
- Author: Klima, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0470400137
- Language: English
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964
$42.00 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that indelibly captures the life and times of one of the most brilliant and controversial military figures of the twentieth century.
“Electric…Tense with the feeling that this… [more below]- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 793
- Publish Date: June 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0316544981
- Language: English
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A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
$25.99 Add to cartOne of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical vic… [more below]
- Author: Mrazek, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0316056537
- Language: English
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I’m Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC
$22.00 Add to cartThe true story behind the character depicted in HBO’s critically acclaimed, award-winning miniseries, The Pacific
I’m Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest her- Author: Proser, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312611447
- Language: English
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
$23.00 Add to cartMonths before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler–prime architect of the Holocaust–designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small numbe… [more below]
- Author: Helm, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307278719
- Language: English
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Patton: Genius for War, a
$24.99 Read more“Biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D’Este’s Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warri
- Author: D’Este, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: September 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0060927623
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$38.00 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0316309850
- Language: English
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Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
$30.95 Add to cartTwo years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.S. planners began work on Operation Downfall, codename for the Allied inv… [more below]
- Author: Giangreco, D. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 15 2020
- ISBN10: 168247643X
- Language: English
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war–and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises–from Tru… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107308
- Language: English
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Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible
$21.99 Add to cartAt last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge-the story of five crucial days in which small groups of American soldiers, some outnumbered… [more below]
- Author: McManus, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1681620529
- Language: English
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Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller By the author of A Man Called Intrepid. The story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of Honor
She was stunning. She was ruthless. She was brilliant and h- Author: Stevenson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1611452317
- Language: English
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Lost Bar Harbor
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue the simple life on a grand scale. Eighty-six … [more below]
- Author: Helfrich, G. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1608936023
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima
$34.43 Add to cartThis book offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule. Pellegrino’s scientific authority and relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative eve… [more below]
- Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
- Author: Pellegrino, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121786
- Language: English
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The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home
$18.00 Add to cartThis extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is “liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it’s all true” (The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Sally Mott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1501104160
- Language: English
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Children of Terror
$12.95 Add to cartThis book is an “Honorable-Mention Awardee 2015” from Readers Favorite under Non-Fiction/Autobiography category.
Two very young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, are cau
- Author: Auerbacher, Inge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1440178097
- Language: English
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Atlas of World War II: History’s Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography
$45.00 Add to cartThis definitive, lavishly illustrated book from National Geographic features an astonishing array of vintage and newly created maps, rare photographs, covert documents, and eyewitness accounts that il… [more below]
- Author: Hyslop, Stephen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1426219717
- Language: English
