Chronological Period/1940's
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Into the Lion’s Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond
$22.00 Add to cartInternational bestseller!
James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and wa- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0593473973
- Language: English
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
$19.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocitie- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0316338907
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Personal Recollections
$25.00 Add to cartThe author describes the loss of her home in Eastern Europe during World War II, her family’s deportation to a Nazi labor camp, and their eventual arrival in the United States. Relying on historic sou… [more below]
- Author: Chmara, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1950423808
- Language: English
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America’s First Frogman
$28.95 Add to cartAlthough bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and… [more below]
- Author: Bush, Estate Of Elizabeth Kauffman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1591140692
- Language: English
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The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II
$18.99 Add to cartThis “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered d
- Author: Obmascik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 145167838X
- Language: English
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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
$22.95 Add to cartJesse Leroy Brown was born in 1926 to sharecroppers in the segregated South. An outstanding student and top athlete, he set his sights on becoming a Navy pilot despite the resistance of his family and… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Taylor, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591148529
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
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The Fighter of Auschwitz: The Incredible True Story of Leen Sanders Who Boxed to Help Others Survive
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Dutch boxer Leen Sanders who was spared to entertain the Nazi guards and helped others survive Auschwitz.
‘He had the dream again last night… He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish o- Author: Brouwer, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1788404300
- Language: English
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front
$54.98 Add to cartIn the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Bidermann, Gottlob Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0700611223
- Language: English
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
$22.95 Add to cartA sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic order
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for ‘a new B- Series: Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press)
- Author: Steil, Benn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162379
- Language: English
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
$23.00 Add to cartA long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia–from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0399588744
- Language: English
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartNovember 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes–only to be met by … [more below]
- Author: Heimann, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033259
- Language: English
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Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Paradis’s Last Mission to Tokyo, a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal) and “engrossing…richly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) account of a key but underreported moment in World Wa… [more below]
- Author: Paradis, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 150110473X
- Language: English
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The Cellist of Dachau
$18.95 Add to cart“Music transcends war trauma in this extraordinary novel that opens in 1938 Vienna when 19-year-old Jewish cellist Otto Shalmik is arrested with his father and interred at Dachau concentration camp. T
- Author: Goodman, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1909954888
- Language: English
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Bombing Hitler’s Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
$28.00 Read moreOne of WWII’s final untold stories, this visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler’s hometown of Linz, Austria is now told for the first time through… [more below]
- Author: Croissant, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543027
- Language: English
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How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can’t… [more below]
- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774728
- Language: English
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Father and Son: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father’s experience in World War II, by a winner… [more below]
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593863151
- Language: English
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The Language of Victory: Code Talkers of WWI and WWII
$14.95 Add to cartFeaturing rare interviews with Comanche, Choctaw and Navajo code talkers, this easy-to-read non-fiction book recounts how American Indian soldiers from twenty different tribes used their native langua
- Author: Robinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0980027276
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East
$35.00 Add to cartOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Military Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Stahel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 052117015X
- Language: English
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herber… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Herbert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 06 2002
- ISBN10: 030681160X
- Language: English
