World War II
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The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
$19.00 Add to cartThe Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974883
- Language: English
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The Navigator’s Letter: The True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them Together
$32.50 Add to cartThe Navigator’s Letter brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II, chronicling a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood, and love.
On- Author: Dondi, Jan Cress
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1454956356
- Language: English
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
$22.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE – “A beautiful and deeply moving book.”–Sally Rooney, author of Normal People
An engrossing group portrait of five women wri… [more below]- Author: Wade, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0451497805
- Language: English
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In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End
$23.00 Add to cartWhen the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers could not call his death a death, nor could they refer to him by his proper name. To do so would have exposed them to terrorism from the vig… [more below]
- Author: Field, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 09 1993
- ISBN10: 0679741895
- Language: English
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Emilio Pucci: The Astonishing Odyssey of a Fashion Icon
$35.00 Add to cartThe Drama of War and Postwar Italy Through the Life of One of Its Most Celebrated Icons
When people think of fashion designer Emilio Pucci, it is of his bright, swirling colors and easy, freeing fabric- Author: Ward, Terence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 125028967X
- Language: English
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Gamble in the Coral Sea: Japan’s Offensive, the Carrier Battle, and the Road to Midway
$34.95 Add to cartDriven by extensive Japanese primary sources, Gamble in the Coral Sea offers an operational analysis of the first clash of aircraft carriers at the pivotal Battle of the Coral Sea from the Japanese pe
- Author: Piegzik, Michal A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 168247996X
- Language: English
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Closing the Ring
$25.00 Add to cartThe fifth volume in Winston Churchill’s magnificent history of World War II, the British prime minister and Nobel Prize winner recounts how the Allies took the fight to the enemy in this vivid histori… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0005
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0395410592
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American and The Economist
The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the sie- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007673
- Language: English
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Vimy
$20.00 Read moreOne chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in … [more below]
- Author: Berton, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0385658427
- Language: English
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Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
$26.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER – A gripping history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II
“An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting b- Author: Bouverie, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0451499859
- Language: English
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Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945
$24.99 Add to cartThroughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of paper. One of the most extraordinary personal document
- Author: Fahey, James J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: September 15 2003
- ISBN10: 061840080X
- Language: English
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Letters Home from World War II: St. Louis
$22.50 Add to cart- Author: Gordon, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066041
- Language: English
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The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love
$30.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and heartrending true story of one remarkable young man’s account of love in the time of war, by a celebrated historian of untold Black stories
On the eve of World War II, a handsome youn- Author: Whitmire, Ethelene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593654196
- Language: English
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State of War: A History of World War II in Florida
$28.00 Add to cartA deeply researched history of Florida’s strategic and
The first book to share
military roles in World War II
the entire history of Florida’s involvement in World War II, State of
War explores how the- Author: Atwood, Anthony D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081157
- Language: English
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The Meaning of the Second World War
$24.95 Add to cartThe very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Bel… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History
- Author: Mandel, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1844674797
- Language: English
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Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the “900 days and nights” of the Siege of Leningrad set within an expansive history of the iconic city, from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin.
In the crucible of World War II, Sain- Author: McKay, Sinclair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100224
- Language: English
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The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a True Story of Murder
$29.00 Add to cartA true crime investigation into the murder of the relatives of Albert Einstein, set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Florence during WWII.
Florence, August 1944. Fifteen miles southeast of the c- Author: Harding, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1454962992
- Language: English
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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945
$40.00 Add to cartThe author of Britain at Bay–which The Wall Street Journal said may be “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”–picks u… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0451494768
- Language: English
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
$22.00 Add to cart“A thorough account of Harriman’s rise which also manages to be a brisk, twisty read … riveting and revelatory.” —The New Yorker
“Rigorous but rollicking.” —The New York Times
Named a BEST BOOK OF- Author: Purnell, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593297822
- Language: English
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The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
$32.50 Add to cartThe “irresistible” (Susan Orlean) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensat
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1538767112
- Language: English
