Chronological Period/1940's
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The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King–The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
$22.99 Add to cartHow history’s only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world’s dominant sea power.
Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank o- Author: Borneman, Walter R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0316097837
- Language: English
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
$24.99 Add to cart“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0061228605
- Language: English
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Ins
- Author: Duffy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0060935537
- Language: English
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping read with fascinating political insight.” (Sunday Times, London)
“Elegant, elegiac and poignant…Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide… to the river, muc
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063099691
- Language: English
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Three Days at the Brink: Fdr’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
$19.99 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times Bestseller
“I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This
- Series: Three Days
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905694
- Language: English
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Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
$23.99 Read moreAn “absorbing” and “visceral” (New York Times) account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States
By e- Author: Simms, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619102
- Language: English
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Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
$22.00 Add to cartHalsey’s Typhoon is the story of World War II’s most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero…. [more below]
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143377
- Language: English
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
$45.00 Add to cartA “breathtakingly magisterial” account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a w… [more below]- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0465066984
- Language: English
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Gertruda’s Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
$15.99 Add to cartTrapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolo- Author: Oren, Ram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0385527195
- Language: English
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
$20.99 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. “- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426119
- Language: English
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Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War
$18.00 Read moreIn Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain’s most accomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study of the land war in the North African and European theaters, as well as their chief c… [more below]
- Author: Brighton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0307461556
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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Maximilian Kolbe: The Saint of Auschwitz
$14.95 Read moreIt’s July 1941 in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe steps forward.
“Let me take this man’s place,” he says, thereby volunteering to die in t
- Author: Vivier, Jean-Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1644130807
- Language: English
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December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World
$22.99 Add to cartIn the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was largely focused on the war in Europe, but when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets i
- Author: Shirley, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 159555582X
- Language: English
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
$18.95 Add to cartTed W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that time,” Ted W.
- Series: Brassey’s Aviation Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lawson, Ted W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574885545
- Language: English
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Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy.
In the first week of December 1… [more below]
- Author: Jett, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429366
- Language: English
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Arthur and Lilly: The Girl and the Holocaust Survivor
$22.95 Read moreWhat do a 75-year-old Los Angeles based rocket engineer and an eleven-year-old schoolgirl from Austria have in common? Not much at first glance, but Arthur and Lilly influenced each other’s lives in a
- Author: Maier, Lilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1955047308
- Language: English
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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
$19.99 Add to cartA special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.
Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt sa- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805068031
- Language: English
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season
$20.99 Add to cartThis bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.April 15, 1947, ma… [more below]
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743294610
- Language: English
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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
$27.99 Add to cartFor Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0700617914
- Language: English
