Chronological Period/1940's
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National Treasures: Saving the Nation’s Art in World War II
$19.99 Read more, ‘Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research, Caroline Shenton has done her unlikely heroes proud’ –… [more below]
- Author: Shenton, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1529387450
- Language: English
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The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis
$19.99 Read moreWas Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler?
No, says Rabbi David G. Dalin, but there was a cleric in league with Hitler: the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. As Pope Pius- Author: Dalin, David G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514290
- Language: English
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Everybody Knows a Salesman Can’t Write a Book
$16.95 Add to cartThere is a story about Winston Churchill and a deadly incident from World War II that most people have never heard. This is my account of how I learned to research and write about this unlikely clash
- Author: Whiteside, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986660714
- Language: English
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We Lived In Danger: From True Prairie Boy to Royal Regina Rifleman: A Western Canadian’s WWII Memoir
$15.99 Add to cart“We Lived in Danger” is a deeply personal and enchanting story about a small-town Canadian boy from Saskatchewan, Victor Hepburn Small, that unveils a rare and fascinating slice-of-life vignette of th
- Author: Small, Victor Hepburn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987227114
- Language: English
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Indian Summer
$34.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, lib- Author: Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0312428111
- Language: English
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The Liberator: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
$20.00 Add to cartThe untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War–now a Netflix original series starring Jose Miguel Vasquez, Bryan Hibbard, and Bradley James
“Exceptional- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0307888002
- Language: English
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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
$23.99 Add to cart“In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there’s absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy…. [more below]
- Author: Sierakowiak, Dawid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0195122852
- Language: English
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Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
$40.99 Add to cartSince the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever a… [more below]
- Author: Pollack, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0190906960
- Language: English
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
$18.99 Add to cart“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of f
- Author: Albright, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062030345
- Language: English
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Anna and the King of Siam
$17.99 Add to cartThe bestselling book that inspired the musical play and film The King and I
“Enchanting. . . . The author wears her scholarship with grace, and the amazing story she has to tell is recounted with humor
- Author: Landon, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0060954884
- Language: English
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Victory!: Propaganda Cartoons from World War II
$14.99 Add to cartAward-winning cartoonist Tony Husband tells the story of World War II through a selection of the era’s finest political cartoons.
Satire is one of the key weapons of war. Forget ‘sticks and stones’, e- Author: Husband, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1398817791
- Language: English
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A Different Race: World War II, the Alaska Highway, Racism and a Court Martial
$14.99 Add to cartOn December 7, 1941 the United States suddenly found itself at war with the Empire of Japan. Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain led through the North Pacific from Japan to North America, and the army desp
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1735841706
- Language: English
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Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler’s Atomic Bomb (Scholastic Focus)
$14.99 Add to cartA stunning adventure involving Nazis, nukes, fighting, failure, and everyday heroes, from the author of the award-winning The Nazi Hunters.
Neal Bascomb delivers another nail-biting work of nonfiction
- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0545732441
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Last Christmas: The Day the Entire Mighty 8th Air Force Entered the Battle of the Bulge
$24.95 Add to cartHitler’s Last Christmas: The Day the Entire Mighty 8th Air Force Entered the Battle of the Bulge provides an account of the history and results of the largest aerial bombing mission ever. The story be
- Author: Kilburg, Donald F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1977206395
- Language: English
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Sunburst
$41.95 Add to cartThis acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific w… [more below]
- Author: Peattie, Estate Of Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 159114664X
- Language: English
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Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities
$39.00 Add to cartNazi “euthanasia” programs were designed to eliminate all persons with disabilities who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the health and purity of the German race. Ms. Evans explores the develop… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Susanne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2004
- ISBN10: 1566635659
- Language: English
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Japan at War: An Oral History
$39.67 Read moreA “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II
“Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach
- Author: Cook, Haruko Taya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1565840399
- Language: English
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Necropolis
$15.95 Add to cartBoris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm … [more below]
- Series: Slovenian Literature
- Author: Pahor, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 1564786110
- Language: English
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the 2018 American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon Award
Shortlisted for the 2018… [more below]- Author: Steil, Benn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1501102389
- Language: English
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The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic Of Escape, Survival, And Victory
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1943, a group of brave Danish and Norwegian hunters carried out one of the most dramatic operations of World War II. Using dogsleds to patrol a stark 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, their … [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032933
- Language: English
