Chronological Period/1940's
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By: Berg, Mary
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto – 75th Anniversary Edition
$16.99PaperbackRead moreThe first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to- Author: Berg, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1786073404
- Language: English
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By: Henry, Stevens
Hitler’s Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology
$19.95PaperbackRead moreNow we know what spooked the Allies in the closing months of the war and why they were in such a panic to win quickly. The Allies assembled intelligence reports of supermetals, electric guns, and ray … [more below]
- Author: Henry, Stevens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: August 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1931882738
- Language: English
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By: Batalion, Judy
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
$28.99HardcoverRead moreTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.
One of the most important stories of World W
- Author: Batalion, Judy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0062874217
- Language: English
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By: Johnstun, Kase
Let the Wild Grasses Grow
$17.95PaperbackRead more2022 Great Group Reads Award Winner, High Plains Book Award Finalist, and Reading The West Longlist Nomination
“Johnstun knows his terrain well, creating a palpable sense of the sky and soil, grasses a… [more below]
- Author: Johnstun, Kase
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 194881451X
- Language: English
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Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
$19.95PaperbackRead more“Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Stud
- Author: Dennett, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021475
- Language: English
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By: Benn, James R.
Road of Bones
$16.95PaperbackRead moreBilly Boyle is sent to the heart of the USSR to solve a double-murder at a critical turning point in the war in this latest installment of critically acclaimed James R. Benn’s WWII mystery series.
It’- Series: Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
- Author: Benn, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1641293713
- Language: English
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By: Soames, Emma
Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter
$28.95HardcoverRead moreA unique and evocative portrait of World War II–and a charming coming-of-age story–from the private diaries of Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter, Mary.
“I am not a great or important personage,- Author: Soames, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361618
- Language: English
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By: Sixsmith, Martin
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
$35.00HardcoverRead moreA major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the hum- Author: Sixsmith, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361812
- Language: English
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By: Robotham, Mandy
The Resistance Girl
$16.99PaperbackRead moreNorway, 1942: She has lost everything to the Nazis. But now she fights back…
War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugiti
- Author: Robotham, Mandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0008523762
- Language: English
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By: Dickson, Shirley
The Lost Children
$12.99PaperbackRead moreFor readers of Natasha Lester and Pam Jenoff comes a poignant and heart-wrenching tale of two orphans in a world at war, with only each other to rely on–but can their bond survive the shocking truth … [more below]
- Author: Dickson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1538708434
- Language: English
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War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
$18.99PaperbackRead moreIn this World War II military history, Rommel’s army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them–if Wa… [more below]
- Author: Gorenberg, Gershom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1541702670
- Language: English
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By: Lardas, Mark
South China Sea 1945: Task Force 38’s Bold Carrier Rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina
$25.00PaperbackRead moreA history of the US Navy’s remarkable 1945 South China Sea raid against the Japanese, the first time in history that a carrier fleet dared to rampage through coastal waters.
As 1945 opened, Japan was- Series: Air Campaign #36
- Author: Lardas, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853113
- Language: English
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A Castle in Brooklyn
$24.95HardcoverRead moreSpanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendship, and the dream of finding home.
1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under t
- Author: Russak Wachtel, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662508743
- Language: English
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Redcoat
$19.99PaperbackRead moreIt is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun.
On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young
- Series: Richard Sharpe
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0060512776
- Language: English
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By: Hampton, Dan
Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
$22.99PaperbackRead moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present
INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPS
Lords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-pa
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0062262092
- Language: English
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
$18.00PaperbackRead moreUnafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, u… [more below]
- Author: Glendon, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760466
- Language: English
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Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (Scholastic Focus): The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII
$9.99PaperbackRead moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson paints a vivid portrait of the deadly battles that raged in the Pacific during WWII and the remarkable courage of the US submarine sailors who fought them.
Dive! W… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 054542559X
- Language: English
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By: Chiussi, Tommaso
Zollgrenzschutz: Border Guards on the Frontier of the Reich, Hauptzollamt Villach, 1941-1945
$29.99HardcoverRead moreAfter occupying the Balkans early in the war, the Axis powers constantly struggled to police the region. The partisan presence was quite substantial, and while the various fractured guerrilla groups e… [more below]
- Author: Chiussi, Tommaso
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367056
- Language: English
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Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms, Vol. 1: Helmet Covers – Smocks
$89.99HardcoverRead more- Series: Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms #1
- Author: Silvestri, Lorenzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 28 2016
- ISBN10: 076435065X
- Language: English
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Not as Briefed: From the Doolittle Raid to a German Stalag
$31.95PaperbackRead moreFrom Tokyo to Berlin, WSU art graduate Ross Greening painted and wrote a one-of-kind record of action in WWII. Entering combat in April 1942, he piloted a B-25 in the Doolittle bombing raid on Japan a
- Author: Greening, Colonel C. Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0874222591
- Language: English
