World War II
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Battleship Iowa: Naval History Special Edition
$19.95 Add to cartBuilding on the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer studies of the key vessels, battles, and events of armed … [more below]
- Series: Naval History Special Editions #10
- Author: Burr, Lawrence W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 159114910X
- Language: English
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Intrepid’s Fighting Squadron 18: Flying High with Harris’ Hellcats
$34.95 Add to cartUSS Intrepid‘s Fighting Squadron 18 (VF-18) was one of the U.S. Navy’s highest-scoring carrier units of World War II. Despite having only one combat veteran in its roster, its aviators–including Cec
- Author: Fink, Michael I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 168247321X
- Language: English
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Boys, Just Boys: Biography of a WWII Infantry Regiment
$34.95 Add to cartThrough the voices of the men who experienced it, Boys, Just Boys relates the story of the 423rd regiment of the 106th Infantry Division during and after the Battle of the Bulge. In mid-December 1944,
- Author: Welke, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 682
- Publish Date: December 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888325766
- Language: English
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Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
$22.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinar- Author: Fry, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279310
- Language: English
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We Lived In Danger: From True Prairie Boy to Royal Regina Rifleman: A Western Canadian’s WWII Memoir
$17.99 Add to cart“We Lived in Danger” is a deeply personal and enchanting story about a small-town Canadian boy from Saskatchewan, Victor Hepburn Small, that unveils a rare and fascinating slice-of-life vignette of th
- Author: Small, Victor Hepburn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987227107
- Language: English
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Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II
$41.00 Add to cartIn the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb — and to make sure nobody saw… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396545
- Language: English
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40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of Wwii’s Bloodiest Battles
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of The 2020 Best Book Award for Military History — American Bookfest
An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were chosen for their willingness to d- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Tachovsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1684511933
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
$35.00 Read moreNEW 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 Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
$21.00 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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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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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
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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
