Chronological Period/1940's
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Flower of Vlora: Growing up Jewish in Communist Albania
$24.95 Add to cartCovering the years 1938 through the present, Flower of Vlora is a funny and tense account of Anna Kohen’s Romaniote-Jewish family in Albania and how they were saved from the Nazis by Muslim Albanians.
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII
- Author: Kohen, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 9493276252
- Language: English
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Eastern Front 1945: Triumph of the Soviet Air Force
$25.00 Read moreA detailed, illustrated account of the air campaign that accompanied the Red Army’s final push towards Berlin, in which massed Soviet air power defeated the Luftwaffe’s high-tech Me 262 jets and Miste
- Series: Air Campaign #42
- Author: Hiestand, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1472857828
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
$15.17 Add to cartA concise and timely account of Hitler’s–and fascism’s–rise to power and ultimate defeat, from one of America’s most famous journalists.
American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a corre- Author: Shirer, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0795300344
- Language: English
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The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
$22.99 Add to cartThe Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Lening… [more below]
- Author: Salisbury, Harrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0306812983
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
$27.00 Add to cart“Chilling… To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Europe
- Author: Kershaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109928
- Language: English
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Those Devils in Baggy Pants
$35.00 Add to cartThose Devils in Baggy Pants was originally published in 1951 by Ross S. Carter, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Carter, one of the three surviving members of his original platoon a
- Author: Fraley, David Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: December 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1954978235
- Language: English
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The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
$30.00 Read moreEighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of Midway
The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and ai- Author: Simms, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701372
- Language: English
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Race of Aces: Wwii’s Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky
$21.99 Add to cartThe astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.
In 1942, America’s deadliest fighter pilot, or “ace of aces” — the l… [more below]- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0316508632
- Language: English
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
$21.99 Add to cartNOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG
In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous que- Author: El-Hai, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1610394631
- Language: English
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Angels Against the Sun: A WWII Saga of Grunts, Grit, and Brotherhood
$34.99 Read moreIn the tradition of Band of Brothers, historian and former paratrooper James M. Fenelon offers a grunt’s-eye view of the 11th Airborne’s heroic campaign to liberate the Philippines in World War II. A … [more below]
- Author: Fenelon, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 168451200X
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
$22.95 Add to cartOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in the United States scrambled to verify results and furt
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874223075
- Language: English
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The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
$39.95 Add to cartBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff d… [more below]
- Author: Medoff, Rafael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0827614705
- Language: English
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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
$20.99 Add to cartThis is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign a
- Author: Plant, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805006001
- Language: English
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
$20.00 Read moreTHE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up … [more below]- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0804176744
- Language: English
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartThe vivid and largely untold story of the dramatic Allied air campaign against Germany that was a turning point in World War II and ultimately crucial to the success of D-Day and the Allied invasion o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 080214778X
- Language: English
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Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
$20.00 Add to cartIn a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to… [more below]
- Author: Frank, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141001461
- Language: English
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Cartoon History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartWhat? You don’t know what a Burgess is? — You can’t outline the Monroe Doctrine? — Recall the 14th Amendment? — Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik?
Then you need The Cartoon Hist… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon Guide
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0062730983
- Language: English
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X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
$17.99 Read more“Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees–a top-secret band of brothers–who waged war on Hitler.” –Alex Kershaw, New York Ti… [more below]
- Author: Garrett, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699312
- Language: English
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The Filthy Thirteen: From the Dustbowl to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest – The True Story of the Dirty Dozen
$12.95 Read moreSince World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, the paratroopers who led the Allied invasions into Nazi-held Europe. But within the ranks… [more below]
- Author: Killblane, Richard
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1612005942
- Language: English
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Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe’s Darkest Hour
$19.99 Add to cartA passionate, haunting and moving work that tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary st… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1568587236
- Language: English
