World War
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Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War
$18.00 Read moreIn Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain’s most accomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study of the land war in the North African and European theaters, as well as their chief c… [more below]
- Author: Brighton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0307461556
- Language: English
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Lee Miller: A Life
$22.00 Add to cartLee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America’… [more below]
- Author: Burke, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226080676
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World
$22.99 Add to cartIn the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was largely focused on the war in Europe, but when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets i
- Author: Shirley, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 159555582X
- Language: English
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
$18.95 Add to cartTed W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that time,” Ted W.
- Series: Brassey’s Aviation Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lawson, Ted W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574885545
- Language: English
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Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy.
In the first week of December 1… [more below]
- Author: Jett, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429366
- Language: English
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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
$19.99 Add to cartA special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.
Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt sa- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805068031
- Language: English
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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
$27.99 Add to cartFor Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0700617914
- Language: English
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Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
$16.99 Read moreFrom a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland–and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows
Menachem Kaiser’s br… [more below]
- Author: Kaiser, Meir Menachem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699177
- Language: English
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The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy
$14.99 Read moreWith determination and audacity, Josephine Baker used her comic and musical abilities to become a worldwide icon of the Jazz Age. This lively biography covers her outspoken participation in the U.S. C… [more below]
- Series: Women of Action
- Author: Caravantes, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1613738323
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
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The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
$21.99 Add to cartNamed one of Book Riot’s BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022
The “devastatingly affecting and moving” true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to sa- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1541751183
- Language: English
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front
$54.98 Add to cartIn the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Bidermann, Gottlob Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0700611223
- Language: English
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
$23.00 Add to cartA long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia–from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0399588744
- Language: English
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartNovember 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes–only to be met by … [more below]
- Author: Heimann, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033259
- Language: English
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Bombing Hitler’s Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
$28.00 Read moreOne of WWII’s final untold stories, this visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler’s hometown of Linz, Austria is now told for the first time through… [more below]
- Author: Croissant, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543027
- Language: English
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How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can’t… [more below]
- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774728
- Language: English
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The Language of Victory: Code Talkers of WWI and WWII
$14.95 Add to cartFeaturing rare interviews with Comanche, Choctaw and Navajo code talkers, this easy-to-read non-fiction book recounts how American Indian soldiers from twenty different tribes used their native langua
- Author: Robinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0980027276
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East
$35.00 Add to cartOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Military Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Stahel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 052117015X
- Language: English
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herber… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Herbert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 06 2002
- ISBN10: 030681160X
- Language: English
