World War
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The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
$28.99 Read more*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holo… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Tova
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1335475931
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
$21.95 Add to cartBetween April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a
- Author: Smith, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134224
- Language: English
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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The Gathering Storm
$25.00 Add to cartThe first in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II.
Told from the unique viewpoint of t… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0001
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 09 1986
- ISBN10: 039541055X
- Language: English
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
$39.00 Add to cartOver the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0316743798
- Language: English
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The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartSigned on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treat… [more below]
- Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190659181
- Language: English
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military
$40.99 Add to cartThe first comprehensive narrative of racism in America’s World War II military and the resistance to it.
America’s World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazi- Author: Guglielmo, Thomas A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0195342658
- Language: English
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Michigan POW Camps in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs.
At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the
- Series: Military
- Author: Sumner, Gregory D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 162585837X
- Language: English
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Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
$34.95 Add to cart“[A] must-read for students of history and historians alike.”—Washington Book Review
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I,
- Author: Schindler, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612347657
- Language: English
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American Shoes: A Refugee’s Story
$24.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Gold Moonbeam Children’s Book Award in Non-Fiction: Chapter Book
Commended as a “moving and hopeful story of courage and perseverance” in a starred review by Booklist, American Shoe- Author: Lengsfeld Turke, Rosemarie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1582708525
- Language: English
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Miracle at Midway
$20.99 Read moreNew York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is “something special among war histories” (Chicago Sun-Times).
Six months after Pearl Harbor,- Author: Prange, Gordon W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 581
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049268
- Language: English
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Agent Garbo
$15.95 Add to cartThe little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler’s Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double age… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0544035011
- Language: English
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Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon
$27.95 Add to cartIt was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific–
All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan’s major cities. As the bats
- Author: Couffer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 19, 2008
- ISBN10: 0292718721
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$22.00 Add to cartThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975294
- Language: English
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Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account
$21.95 Add to cartThe hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the … [more below]
- Author: Dyess, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803266332
- Language: English
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
$39.00 Add to cartA revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency a- Author: Woolner, David B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0465048714
- Language: English
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The Patton Papers: 1940-1945
$37.50 Add to cart“One of World War II’s most brilliant and controversial generals, George S. Patton (1885-1945) fought in North Africa and Sicily, as commander of the Third Army, spearheaded the Allies’ spectacular 19… [more below]
- Author: Blumenson, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: August 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306807173
- Language: English
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Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
$29.99 Read moreLate in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refug… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Charles E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 168451262X
- Language: English
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The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
$28.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl w- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 198214386X
- Language: English
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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945
$19.99 Add to cartLisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to… [more below]
- Author: Lochery, Neill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391888
- Language: English
