World War II
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$27.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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Defenders of the Reich: The Luftwaffe’s War Against America’s Bombers
$40.00 Add to cartThe story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm’s desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II.
The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die ca- Author: Forsyth, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1472862864
- Language: English
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The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
$20.00 Add to cartGeneral Dwight Eisenhower commands a diverse army that must destroy Hitler’s European fortress. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel prepares for the coming invasion, as the F?hrer th… [more below]
- Series: World War II #2
- Author: Shaara, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0345461401
- Language: English
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Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich
$24.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail
“A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive.” —Wall Street Journal “Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating explo- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593296443
- Language: English
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World War II Aerial Combat 1937 – 1945: The Allied and Axis Air Forces a Visual History
$39.95 Add to cart- Author: Nijboer, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0228105870
- Language: English
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Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
$19.99 Add to cartHailed as “the single most effective pilot at Midway” (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of Midway, including two aircraft carriers, helping tu
- Author: Kleiss, N. Jack Dusty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0062692356
- Language: English
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Central Pacific 1943-45: Seventh Air Force’s Island-Hopping War
$25.00 Add to cartThe little-known history of the Hawaii-based Seventh Air Force’s war as it fought in all the major island campaigns from the Gilberts and Marshalls to the Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
Rebuilt afte- Series: Air Campaign #57
- Author: Herder, Brian Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1472864875
- Language: English
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The Star of Africa: The Complete Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille as Told by Those Who Knew Him and Those He Fought
$44.99 Add to cartThe Star of Africa plunges you into the blistering cockpit of Hans-Joachim Marseille, the Luftwaffe’s most dazzling maverick. Against the backdrop of North Africa’s sun-scorched skies, Marseille carve
- Author: Heaton, Colin D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1944353879
- Language: English
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Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During Wo
$33.00 Add to cartAn untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American-Japanese contacts in World War II.
In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater’s bloodiest battles, the United States- Author: Iritani, Evelyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0374261075
- Language: English
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
$32.00 Add to cartWith a new foreword from bestselling author Alex Kershaw, the bestselling classic that tells the astonishing, definitive story of the greatest rescue mission, featuring the previously unknown role of … [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Gregory A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217182220
- Language: English
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Omaha Beach
$21.95 Add to cartBalkoski’s depiction of ‘Bloody Omaha’ is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. — John Hillen, New York Post
- Author: Balkoski, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0811733769
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of Am
$42.00 Add to cartSara Vladic, New York Times bestselling author of Indianapolis, reveals the gripping, untold history of the United States under attack during World War II and the improbable patriots who stepped up to
- Author: Vladic, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0063321041
- Language: English
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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
