Wars & Conflicts
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Churchill’s Great Escapes: Seven Incredible Escapes Made by WWII Heroes
$18.95 Read moreFrom #1 internationally bestselling author, war reporter, and award-winning historian Damien Lewis, the thrillingly-told stories of the seven most daring WWII escapes executed by the legendary British… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542101
- Language: English
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players
When Pamela Churchil- Author: Purnell, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593949129
- Language: English
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$32.50 Read moreThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035757
- Language: English
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Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan.
Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby
- Author: Mohseni, Saad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0063299801
- Language: English
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Cassino ’44: The Brutal Battle for Rome
$35.00 Add to cartAcclaimed World War II historian James Holland vividly relates the dramatic last months of the Italian Campaign in a masterful volume that brings new awareness to this vital hinge point of the war
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- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 080216384X
- Language: English
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Frenchie: The Story of French-Speaking Cajuns of World War II
$24.95 Read more- Author: Theriot, Jason P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1959569104
- Language: English
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The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
$32.00 Add to cartThe astonishing story of how in 1942, in Egypt, Colonel Dudley Clarke’s ingenious “A Force” thwarted the Nazis while inventing a whole new playbook of military deception.
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked- Author: Hutton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367160
- Language: English
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The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past
$26.00 Add to cartThe masterful narration of a daughter’s decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin’s Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three y… [more below]
- Author: Spicer, Roxana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 073524653X
- Language: English
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Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
$35.00 Add to cartIn this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0063341085
- Language: English
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The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
$26.00 Add to cartINSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII. On opposite side- Author: Ayed, Nahlah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0735242062
- Language: English
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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 Read moreAs 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
$30.00 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
