Chronological Period/1940's
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Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter’s Reflections On Her Mother’s Bravery
$16.99 Add to cartIt began with an unexpected phone call and a startling statement: “You don’t know me, but your mother saved my life.”
The late night conversation with an American World War II veteran revealed to Eliza
- Author: Besa-Quirino, Elizabeth Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987555002
- Language: English
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Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
$22.95 Add to cartAn updated version of the classic, definitive account of the Burma campaign in World War 11.
- Author: Slim, Field-Marshal Viscount William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: February 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0815410220
- Language: English
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Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
$26.99 Add to cartOf all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Starr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0760328242
- Language: English
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Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
$21.00 Add to cartOur Mothers’ War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society.
Never before has the vast range of- Author: Yellin, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0743245164
- Language: English
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Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
$22.99 Read more“A masterpiece of political philosophy and practical statesmanship…the one book on Winston Churchill that every undergraduate, every graduate student, every professional historian, and every member
- Author: Arnn, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0718096215
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
$19.99 Add to cartThe unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.
Elida Friedman was not supposed to ha
- Author: Jakob, Zipora Klein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063296659
- Language: English
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The Wit & Wisdom of FDR
$13.99 Add to cartIn Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raco
- Author: Humes, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231487
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Maladies and Their Impact on World War II: A Behavioral Neurologist’s View
$27.95 Add to cartToward the end of World War II, Hitler’s many health complications became even more pronounced, making an evil man yet more erratic and dangerous. While the subject of Hitler’s health has been catalog… [more below]
- Author: Hutton, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1682831663
- Language: English
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Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
$30.00 Read moreIn 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latv
- Author: Kinstler, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 154170259X
- Language: English
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Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
$19.99 Read moreFrom a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before
BERLIN’S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CO- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250838991
- Language: English
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War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat
$39.95 Add to cartWar by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By
- Author: Lawrence, Christopher A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1612348866
- Language: English
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U-Boats Off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight
$23.99 Add to cartFrom January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina’s “Graveyard of the Atlantic” off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hat
- Series: Military
- Author: Bunch, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137677
- Language: English
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Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
$21.95 Add to cartIn Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Westermann, Edward B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501770152
- Language: English
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The D-Day Visitor’s Handbook, 80th Anniversary Edition: Your Guide to the Normandy Battlefields and WWII Paris, Revised and Updated
$14.99 Read moreUpdated for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
For families of the heroes who fought on the beaches of Normandy during World War II, for fans of Saving Private Ryan, or for traveler interested in history- Author: Dennehy, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1510776028
- Language: English
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure
$19.00 Add to cartThe remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II.
“To be a Frenchman means to- Author: Kladstrup, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0767904486
- Language: English
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Invasion Rabaul: The Epic Story of Lark Force, the Forgotten Garrison, January-July 1942
$24.99 Add to cartThe riveting first book in Bruce Gamble’s critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover entitled Darkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23,
- Series: Rabaul Trilogy #01
- Author: Gamble, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0760345910
- Language: English
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Pegasus Bridge
$19.00 Add to cartIn the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the … [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0671671561
- Language: English
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Shifty’s War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell Shifty Powers, the Legendary Shar Pshooter from the Band of Brothers
$20.00 Read moreFrom D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the… [more below]
- Author: Brotherton, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0425247376
- Language: English
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War as I Knew It
$19.99 Add to cartA classic of American military history first published in 1947, War as I Knew It is the captivating memoir of George S. Patton, Jr., the legendary general, incendiary warrior, and unparalled tactician
- Author: Patton, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 08 1995
- ISBN10: 0395735297
- Language: English
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No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
$21.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in World War II.
Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an intern- Author: Weintraub, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0316337056
- Language: English
