World War II
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
$21.00 Read moreIn 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Beate Sirota
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2014
- ISBN10: 022613251X
- Language: English
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Most Secret: Mi9 Escape and Evasion Devices
$28.00 Read morePublished for the first time since its creation in 1942, this ‘most secret’ facsimile reveals the many marvellous and ingenius escape aids created by MI9 to help Allied personnel both evade capture an… [more below]
- Author: Paterson, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1912423677
- Language: English
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Duel in the Deep: The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to the Finish
$34.95 Read moreIn Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II’s longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships using new tactics, technologies, and weaponry dominated … [more below]
- Author: Sears, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682475603
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker
$32.95 Read more“By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth… I managed to prevent Stalin’s dark and murky ambition from taking roo… [more below]
- Author: Rzhevskaya, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1784382817
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$30.00 Read moreThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178523
- Language: English
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11th Waffen-SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland”: An Illustrated History
$45.00 Read moreThe 11th SS Freiwilligen (Volunteer) Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland” was formed in 1943. Despite what the name indicated, this was not an all-volunteer or fully Nordic unit. The ranks were filled … [more below]
- Series: Divisions of the Waffen-SS #11
- Author: Afiero, Massimiliano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367803
- Language: English
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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
$25.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972821
- 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 Read moreA 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
