World War
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945
$25.99 Add to cartSea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japane
- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0743252225
- Language: English
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Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War
$19.99 Add to cart“A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war.” — Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswri
- Author: Roberts, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0547844603
- Language: English
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Churchill’s American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two
$34.99 Add to cartChurchill’s American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the home-f… [more below]
- Author: Ferreiro, Larrie D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0197554016
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$32.00 Read moreA “chilling” and “expertly” written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London).
For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pe- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465095380
- Language: English
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Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
$15.95 Add to cartIn September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating an
- Author: Last, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 184668000X
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo
$31.99 Add to cartThe true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French an- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 150404911X
- Language: English
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When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
$22.99 Read moreIn this dramatic and page-turning narrative history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after their World War II incarceration, Susan H. Kamei weaves the voices of over 130 individuals who lived… [more below]
- Author: Kamei, Susan H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1481401440
- Language: English
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World War II POW Camps of Wyoming
$21.99 Add to cartWyoming’s nineteen prisoner of war camps held several thousand incarcerated Italian and German prisoners during World War II. Historical records, photographs and personal stories shared by camp reside… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: O’Brien, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1467143820
- Language: English
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Niagara Falls in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartNiagara Falls, both a natural wonder and a tourist destination, played a prominent role on the homefront during the Second World War. Many men and women worked diligently stateside in wartime industri… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Kratts, Michelle Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1467137375
- Language: English
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I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d
- Author: Mansfield, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 149308108X
- Language: English
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Forgotten Holocaust, Third Edition
$24.95 Add to cartForgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, “Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of… [more below]
- Author: Lukas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0781813026
- Language: English
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Danger’s Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
$30.99 Add to cartIn the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes — the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons.
By the beginning of 1945, America- Author: Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0743260813
- Language: English
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Lake Michigan’s Aircraft Carriers
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for aircraft carrier training during WWII.
Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qu
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Somers, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0738532088
- Language: English
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Beyond Valor: World War II’s Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
$23.99 Add to cartThe thrilling story of the Airborne and Ranger troops that saw the worst of WWII action–told for the first time in the voices of the soldiers themselves.From the first parachute drops in North Africa… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: March 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0684873850
- Language: English
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Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, Fdr’s Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
$22.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend.
“Son, we’re going to Hell.”- Author: Hornfischer, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0553384503
- Language: English
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The First World War
$21.00 Read more“This serious, compact survey of the war’s history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available.” (Los Angeles Times)
Nearly a century has passed since the outbreak of World War I,- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035185
- Language: English
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper’s Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
$22.00 Add to cartDavid Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his dis… [more below]
- Author: Webster, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0385336497
- Language: English
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Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
$40.99 Add to cartBetween December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg defending against an advancing Ge… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0199335141
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day
$32.00 Read moreCelebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood Rangers
In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159087
- Language: English
