Chronological Period/1940's
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$50.00 Add to cartAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, p
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062405667
- Language: English
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cart“Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece th
- Author: Friedlander, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0060930489
- Language: English
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Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother’s Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter’s Nightmare
$16.99 Read moreAn award-winning journalist discovers that her grandfather, the legendary and heroic Lithiuanian “General Storm” who survived a Nazi concentration camp only to later be executed by the Russians, may a… [more below]
- Author: Foti, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513022
- Language: English
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Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir
$13.99 Add to cartThe remarkable autobiography of a Holocaust escapee.
“Go on, my son. Maybe you will survive…”
Aron Goldfarb was fifteen years old when he was ripped from his bed in Poland and forced to enter a Jewish
- Author: Goldfarb, Aron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1839012897
- Language: English
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Alms for Oblivion: Sunset on the Pacific War
$10.00 Add to cartAsia, 1945. The War in Europe is over. Undeterred, the Japanese Empire fights on. With millions of loyal troops at its disposal and holdings that extend over thousands of miles, the Allies still have
- Series: Peter Kemp War Trilogy #3
- Author: Kemp, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1087913438
- Language: English
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
$18.99 Add to cartAs heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and “engaging history” (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive vict… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 031649206X
- Language: English
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Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945
$20.99 Add to cartWHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan–the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 1416584412
- Language: English
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Sgt. Dinwiddie’s War: B-17s, POWs and the Belgian Underground in World War II
$26.95 Read moreSaturday, January 29, 1944 — it was the day that forever changed the life of T/Sgt. Don Dinwiddie, radioman on the G.I. Sheets, a B-17 bomber on a mission to destroy Nazi targets in Frankfurt, German… [more below]
- Author: Irwin, Terry H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1956027149
- Language: English
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Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a N.A. Salvage Tug
$30.00 Add to cartThe hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1585742406
- Language: English
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A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge
$24.99 Add to cartOn December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieveing what had been considered impos
- Author: MacDonald, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 19 1997
- ISBN10: 0688151574
- Language: English
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The Last Lion Box Set
$150.00 Add to cartUniversally acclaimed for their compelling narrative, their fresh insights, and their objective renderings of Winston Churchill’s life, The Last Lion trilogy presents a revelatory and unparalleled por… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Paul
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 3008
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0316227781
- Language: English
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The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
$34.95 Add to cartThe Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces’ innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feeling
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Harrisville, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501760041
- Language: English
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We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration
$26.99 Read moreIn 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivo
- Author: Cerrotti, Rachael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1094153729
- Language: English
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Fire and Steel: The End of World War Two in the West
$40.99 Add to cartThe final volume in one of the most acclaimed works of military history of this generation.
Here is Peter Caddick-Adams’ third volume in his trilogy about the final year of the Western front in World- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190601868
- Language: English
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Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe
$18.00 Add to cartWhen he left Hollywood in March 1941, Jimmy Stewart was America’s boy next door movie star and a recent Academy Award winner. He left all that behind to join the United States Army Air Corps and fulfi… [more below]
- Author: Matzen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 173227357X
- Language: English
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Kaputt
$19.95 Add to cartCurzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte se… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Malaparte, Curzio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171470
- Language: English
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God’s Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor
$24.95 Add to cartGod’s Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. A valuable record of ma… [more below]
- Series: Warriors
- Author: Prange, Gordon W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574886959
- Language: English
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
$19.99 Add to cart“An extraordinary piece of history…a fresh and lively read” (The Christian Science Monitor)–the passionate, gripping, true story of one man’s single-minded quest to reclaim his family’s art collect… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1451697643
- Language: English
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Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man’s Defiance and Indomitable Spirit
$25.00 Add to cartValor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton.
Lieutenan- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250799457
- Language: English
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How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family
$19.95 Add to cart“Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror.” – Library Journal (starred review)
“[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman.” — Publishers Weekly
In World War II’s… [more below]
- Author: Dziarski, Roman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887191980
- Language: English
