Wars & Conflicts
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Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History
$35.00 Add to cartA moving, dramatic social history of the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the most inspiring and momentous events of the twentieth century.
The fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was on- Author: Bishop, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367039
- Language: English
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Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis
$23.99 Add to cartAs the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness i
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095652
- Language: English
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
$27.00 Add to cartACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST – 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER – 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES – BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN A… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Gary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 110197107X
- Language: English
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The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler–How War Made Them and How They Made War
$35.00 Add to cartChurchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand thei… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Phillips Payson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1524746487
- Language: English
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
$30.00 Add to cartThe untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war
At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence age
- Author: Graham, Elyse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0063280841
- Language: English
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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
$23.00 Read moreA riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan–a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history–with you-are-there immediacy by the New … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0399589279
- Language: English
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The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
$22.00 Add to cartThe Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical aren
- Author: Lloyd, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095113
- Language: English
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Irena’s Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival
$28.00 Read moreWeaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the captivating account of one woman’s personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family’s secret war-torn history.
From the gli- Author: Kirsten, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543655
- Language: English
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Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
$30.00 Read moreAn intimate history of the Afghan war–and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed.
No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the uph- Author: Rasmussen, Sune Engel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0374609942
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War: A Military History
$40.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam
The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests- Author: Wawro, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606086
- Language: English
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Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone
$29.99 Add to cartOn February 24, 2022, the first day of Russia’s all-out attack on Ukraine, armored vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. Russian occupation of the plant, which wou
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 132407941X
- Language: English
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The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy’s First Carrier Into Tokyo Bay
$35.00 Add to cartThe Mighty Moo is the tale of how a scrappy little World War II aircraft carrier and its untested crew earned a distinguished combat record and beat incredible odds to earn 12 battle stars in the Paci… [more below]
- Author: Canestaro, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1538742713
- Language: English
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Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario
$24.99 Read moreAmerica’s Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees
During the height of the second World War, at the order of President Roosevelt, Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York housed 982 refugees, rescued
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Allen, Ann Callaghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155950
- Language: English
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The Infantry’s Armor: The U.S. Army’s Separate Tank Battalions in World War II
$24.95 Add to cart- Tanks, amphibian tanks, and amphibian tractors in action in all theaters, from Africa and Europe to the Pacific
- How the battalions fought the war, often in the tankers’ own words
- Crystal-clear maps
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- Author: Yeide, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0811776581
- Language: English
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Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
$25.00 Add to cartA sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II
“When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”–Ian W. To- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 644
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276788
- Language: English
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Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. Evans
$20.00 Add to cartFrom James D. Hornfischer, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers, a riveting account of the life of WWII hero Commander Ernest E. Evans and his heroics and sacrif… [more below]
- Series: American War Heroes
- Author: Hornfischer, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 059318467X
- Language: English
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The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
$29.99 Add to cartFrom internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplo
- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250247586
- Language: English
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America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
$37.00 Read moreBestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America’s role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: Presiden… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014330
- Language: English
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Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II
$34.95 Read more“An epic story, filled with an unfolding array of evocatively described landscapes and sharply drawn, unforgettable people.”
–Dayton Duncan, writer and producer for Ken Burns documentary films and aut
- Author: Hughes, Larry J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0811773892
- Language: English
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My Hallowed Ground: Reminiscences of a Flight Surgeon
$30.00 Add to cartMy Hallowed Ground chronicles the exciting experiences of a flight surgeon spanning the years 1962-2010.
The stories are told in a series of anecdotes embellished
with historical references, personal in… [more below]
- Author: Rayman, Russell B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890270214
- Language: English
