World War II
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The Sinking of the Bl?her: The Battle of Drobak Sound, April 1940
$55.00 Read moreA lesser-known event during World War II, the sinking of the Bl?her is key part of naval history that marked the beginning of the Norwegian Campaign. The Sinking of the Bl?her is a comprehensive inves… [more below]
- Author: Haarr, Geirr H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1784388750
- Language: English
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The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II
$34.95 Read moreOn September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary of w
- Author: Aldrich, Edward Farley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 081177094X
- Language: English
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Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT Boats at Guadalcanal
$32.95 Add to cartEighty feet long, built of layered mahogany and powered by three monstrous 1500-horsepower V-12 engines, the US Navy’s Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats screamed across the water at over forty knots. They wer
- Author: Lloyd, Keith Warren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072064
- Language: English
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Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume 2: August-December 1944 Volume 2
$41.95 Read moreThis second of three volumes of Patton’s War picks up where the first one left off, examining General George S. Patton’s leadership of the U.S. Third Army. The book follows Patton’s contributions to b… [more below]
- Series: American Military Experience
- Author: Hymel, Kevin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0826222781
- Language: English
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Guderian 1941: The Barbarossa Campaign
$37.95 Read moreAn in-depth account of the advance of Heinz Guderian’s Second Panzer Group across the central Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa.
During the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s inva… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1526762129
- Language: English
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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II
$30.00 Read moreThe first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances.
This book dis- Author: McGaugh, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 147285294X
- Language: English
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Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Gazala to Tunisia, 1942-43
$45.00 Read moreRobert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel’s Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943.
The war in the North Afric- Author: Forczyk, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1472859847
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
$22.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972821
- Language: English
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Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History
$105.00 Read moreBattleship Bismarck is a marine forensics analysis and engineering study of the design, operation, and loss of Germany’s greatest battleship, drawing on survivors’ accounts and the authors’ combined d… [more below]
- Author: Garzke, William H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1591145694
- Language: English
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The Ghost Tattoo
$28.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HOLOCAUST MEMOIR
A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of a family coming to terms with its- Author: Bernard, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542586
- Language: English
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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
$0.00 Read moreIan Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures–a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur–who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule,… [more below]
- Author: Buruma, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593296648
- Language: English
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A Thousand Places Left Behind: One Soldier’s Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma
$28.00 Read moreBorn and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920-2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the … [more below]
- Author: Lutken, Peter K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1496845145
- Language: English
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To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42
$40.00 Add to cartA ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.
‘[An] excellent account.’ – Richard Ove- Author: Buttar, Prit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856554
- Language: English
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MacArthur Reconsidered: General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander
$29.95 Read moreJames Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General Douglas MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius.
One of America’s most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur’s rise throu
- Author: Ellman, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 081177158X
- Language: English
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Shōkaku-Class Aircraft Carriers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy During World War II
$24.99 Read moreThe aircraft carriers of the Shōkaku class are generally regarded as being the most-successful carriers designed by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They became operational just prior to the Pearl Har… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Naval #27
- Author: Lengerer, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366513
- Language: English
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Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World’s Largest Sea Battle
$30.00 Read moreA fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Ja
- Author: Stille, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472851757
- Language: English
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Great American World War II Stories
$22.95 Add to cartPainstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts written about American heroism and breathtaking courage during the largest war in the world history, this breathtaking anthology brings read
- Series: Lyons Press Classics
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081462
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege o… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1668007665
- Language: English
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Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich
$35.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy
“Evans . . . offers these eye-opening portraits of the heart of evil in an effort to understand what kind of people fell under Hitler’s spell. .- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0593296427
- Language: English
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From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace
$24.95 Add to cartMitsuko “Mitzi” Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry–about two-thirds of them US citizens–fr
- Author: Loftus, Mitzi Asai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962645053
- Language: English
