Chronological Period/1940's
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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
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The Train to Crystal City: Fdr’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
$22.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: “A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compell… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Jan Jarboe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1451693672
- Language: English
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
$20.99 Add to cart“Riveting…An elegantly composed study, important and even timely” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich–how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1451651147
- Language: English
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Century’s Witness: The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll
$22.95 Add to cart****Gold Medal Winner, 2022 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards***
***Gold Medal Winner, 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Biography and Autobiography***
***Gold Medal Winner, 2022 IPPY Awards, … [more below]
- Author: McNeil, Mary Llewellyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737886448
- Language: English
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Satan’s Henchman: What Ever Became of SS General Hans Kammler?: What Ever Became of SS General Hans Kammler?
$10.95 Add to cartOn April 3-4, 1945, the city of Nordhausen, Germany, was attacked by Allied bombers. “Why us?” declared the city’s mayor as he surveyed his destroyed city and upwards of eight thousand dead civilians.
- Author: Huddleston, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218119317
- Language: English
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Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
$21.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the final offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich.The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler’s … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684803291
- Language: English
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
$17.99 Add to cartA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II.
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and… [more below]
- Series: FDR at War
- Author: Hamilton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0544227840
- Language: English
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Genesis
$30.99 Add to cartA probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time–the relationship between the United States and Israel
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arab- Author: Judis, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535124
- Language: English
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531331
- Language: English
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Nuremberg Diary
$21.99 Add to cartIn August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologis… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, G. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 0306806614
- Language: English
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American Dreams: The United States Since 1945
$18.00 Read moreThe story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone from bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands
With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. B- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119559
- Language: English
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The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
$18.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The H tel on Place Vend me is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous H tel Ritz–a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0061791040
- Language: English
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Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the most exhilarating true adventures in history, the race into space was marked by courage, duplicity, political paranoia, astonishing technological feats, and unbelievable triumphs in the fac
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0061176281
- Language: English
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar
$17.99 Add to cart“Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The Economist
Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060753625
- Language: English
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My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbr?k Survivor
$18.99 Add to cartAn international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edi… [more below]
- Author: Van de Perre, Selma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164689
- Language: English
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Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
$22.99 Add to cartThis “elegant and sobering” (New York Times) history reveals how Germany’s fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the breakthrough of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler
Amid the ravages
- Author: Fritzsche, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1541697456
- Language: English
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
$19.95 Add to cartAs a newly commisioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald’s first combat was war at its most hellish–the Battle of the Bulge. In this plain-spoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minu… [more below]
- Author: MacDonald, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 19 1999
- ISBN10: 1580800386
- Language: English
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Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz
$15.99 Add to cartThe deeply moving true account of a young Jewish woman’s imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp
In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported t- Author: Leitner, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049357
- Language: English
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Minidoka National Historic Site
$23.99 Add to cartIn the vast sagebrush desert of Southern Idaho, Minidoka War Relocation Center had a short-lived and painful existence. The wartime operation incarcerated over 13,000 American citizens and legal resid… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Wakatsuki, Hanako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1467129402
- Language: English
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Detroit in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartWhen President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great Arsenal of Democracy, Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its industrial might. Locals were committed to the cause, puttin… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Sumner, Gregory D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1467119474
- Language: English
