World War II
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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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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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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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Project Eagle: The Top-Secret OSS Operation That Sent Polish Spies Behind Enemy Lines in World War II
$32.95 Read moreAfter the Battle of the Bulge–which had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipate–the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intellig
- Author: Micgiel, John S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0811775410
- Language: English
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Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
$36.00 Add to cartThe first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation an… [more below]
- Series: Embers
- Author: Sheftall, M. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 059347225X
- Language: English
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Yukikaze’s War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific
$29.95 Add to cartOnly one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armam… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Brett L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 311
- Publish Date: June 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1108837298
- Language: English
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Question 7
$28.00 Add to cartAn exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author’s life and family, and the role of fiction in our times
By w- Author: Flanagan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593802330
- Language: English
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Japan’s Longest Day: A Graphic Novel about the End of WWII: Intrigue, Treason and Emperor Hirohito’s Fateful Decision to Surrender
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of Japan’s surrender in World War II and how it nearly didn’t happen!
In the final days of World War II, Japan lay in ruins and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterated- Author: Hando, Kazutoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317795
- Language: English
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Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
$18.98 Add to cartFrom America’s preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two–“destined,” says Andrew Roberts, “to be the de… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0197761321
- Language: English
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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
$21.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller * Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
“An ingenious look at WWII.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illumi
- Author: Andrews, Lena S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063088347
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A fast-paced debut…Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.” — Publishers Weekly
A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japan
- Author: Harmon, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1400337046
- Language: English
