Wars & Conflicts
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
$35.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portr… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0375505008
- Language: English
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cart“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
–David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118220
- Language: English
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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
$19.00 Read moreThe riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II–from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, … [more below]
- Author: Mackrell, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593471156
- Language: English
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Reflections on Captivity: A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW
$21.95 Add to cartOn October 17, 1965, Navy LTJG Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam on his 76th mission and listed as killed in action. One-and-a-half years later he was found to be alive and a prisoner… [more below]
- Author: Halyburton, Porter A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682478254
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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Those Devils in Baggy Pants
$22.95 Add to cartThose Devils in Baggy Pants was originally published in 1951 by Ross S. Carter, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Carter, one of the three surviving members of his original platoon a
- Author: Fraley, David Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1954978219
- Language: English
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
$18.95 Add to cartWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift an
- Author: Hayes, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 393355462
- Language: English
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
$26.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled- Series: Liberation Trilogy #3
- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1250037816
- Language: English
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Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
$18.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an i… [more below]
- Author: Harding, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0593685172
- Language: English
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
$22.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.
“In the spirit of Unbroken and- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0804176604
- Language: English
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The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
- Author: Rawicz, Slavomir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302261X
- Language: English
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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
$32.00 Read moreThe New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous en
Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022
Booklist, Best Books of 2022- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 154170066X
- Language: English
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And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
$19.95 Add to cartThe book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century,- Author: Lusseyran, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1608682692
- Language: English
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The B-17 Tomahawk Warrior: A WWII Final Honor
$24.99 Add to cartThe Tomahawk Warriors, a crew of nine who perished in a 1944 B-17 Flying Fortress crash in England, was a mystery of WWII until explained in this book. It would have lain in partial obscurity if it we
- Author: Huntley, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1734689919
- Language: English
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Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkinss Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
$29.00 Add to cartThis outstanding, inspiring new narrative of the first woman to serve in a president’s cabinet reveals the full, never-before-told story of her role in saving Jewish refugees during the Nazi regime.
S- Author: Graham, Rebecca Brenner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 806543175
- Language: English
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The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted… [more below]
- Author: Fairweather, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 059323894X
- Language: English
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
$29.00 Add to cartThe incredible untold story of four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War II.
Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslova- Author: Rogak, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250275598
- Language: English
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Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq
$22.00 Add to cartThroughout history, cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest re
- Series: Military History
- Author: DiMarco, Louis a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1472833384
- Language: English
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Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine
$27.95 Add to cartIn February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe’s largest land war since World War II?
Luci- Series: Woodrow Wilson Center
- Author: Kim, Lucian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0231214022
- Language: English
