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American Wolf: From Nazi refugee to American spy. A true story
$28.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1941, 11-year-old Wolf is growing up amidst the rubble and antisemitism of war-torn Nazi Berlin. Destitute and facing deportation, he must leave behind his sister and travel with his
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Birnbaum, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 9493276996
- Language: English
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Yonder
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Ali Standish, award-winning author of The Ethan I Was Before, August Isle, How to Disappear Completely, and The Mending Summer, comes a captivating historical fiction middle grade novel about a b
- Author: Standish, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 006298568X
- Language: English
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Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus)
$19.99 Add to cartBarbara Binns presents the inspiring story of one man in his struggle for racial equality in the field of battle and the field of medicine.
Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched
- Author: Binns, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338754262
- Language: English
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Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews During World War II: A Graphic Novel
$14.99 Add to cartHour of Need is a graphic novel telling the true story of the resistance to Nazi rule in Denmark during World War II and the heroes that saved the Danish Jews by helping them evacuate to Sweden.
In th- Author: Shayne, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1499813570
- Language: English
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Code Girls: The True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II
$9.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the amazing true story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II.
M- Author: Mundy, Liza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316353779
- Language: English
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Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story
$34.95 Add to cartMany myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will discomfort both Truman’s critic
- Author: Giangreco, D. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1640120734
- Language: English
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Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of WWII’s 10th Mountain Division
$19.99 Add to cartFew stories from the “greatest generation” are as unforgettable — or as little known — as that of the 10th Mountain Division. Today a versatile light infantry unit deployed around the world, the 10t
- Author: Shelton, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 16, 2011
- ISBN10: 145165510X
- Language: English
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What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
$7.99 Add to cartHiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it’s meant for the world ever since.
By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the figh- Series: What Was?
- Author: Brallier, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1524792659
- Language: English
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The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World
$18.99 Add to cartHope triumphs over fear in this poignant and impactful true story of the Holocaust–a delicate introduction to World War Two history for older picture book readers.
During World War Two, in the concen- Author: Boxer, Elisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593617126
- Language: English
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V Is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II
$32.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023
“Belongs in the library alongside the histories and biographies of Martin Gilbert, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and David McCullough.” –Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times best- Author: Nelson, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982122919
- Language: English
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Father and Son: A Memoir
$0.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father’s experience in World War II, by a winner… [more below]
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0375422455
- Language: English
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Stolen by Night
$18.99 Read moreTHE OCCUPATION.
THE RESISTANCE.
THE WORLD AT WAR.
On May 10, 1940, the Nazis begin their march across Europe, and within weeks, France has fallen. At first, Nicolette’s world seems more or less the same
- Author: Watkins, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1338306073
- Language: English
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
$49.95 Add to cart“Shattered Sword [is] a necessary read for anyone interested in the Pacific War.”–NYMAS Review
Shattered Sword is the winner of the 2005 John Lyman Book Award for the “Best Book in U.S. Naval History”
- Author: Parshall, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574889230
- Language: English
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The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis
$14.95 Add to cartA series of personal stories from some of the non-Jews, including gypsies, political and religious activists, the physically challenged, and other “undesirables,” who were persecuted but escaped the f
- Author: Friedman, Ina R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: August 31, 2011
- ISBN10: 0395745152
- Language: English
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What If You Were on the Russian Front in World War II?: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Read moreAdolf Hitler didn’t just invade Europe during World War II. He also broke a pact with Russia and invaded that country. Battles continued into the bitter cold months of winter. You’re part of the Allie… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: World War II Frontlines
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390909
- Language: English
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What If You Were on the European Front in World War II?: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Read moreAdolf Hitler’s Nazi forces have violently conquered lands across Europe. They have created brutal camps where Jews, prisoners of war, and other perceived enemies work themselves to death. You are figh… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: World War II Frontlines
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390925
- Language: English
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Life and Fate
$29.95 Add to cartA book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Grossman, Vasily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172019
- Language: English
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
$25.00 Add to cartThis masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War–the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944–when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan’s far
- Series: Pacific War Trilogy #2
- Author: Toll, Ian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 6, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353206
- Language: English
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Japan’s Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan’s Wartime Human Experimentation Program
$12.99 Add to cartThis is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII.
Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan’s war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, an- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Gold, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 3, 2019
- ISBN10: 0804852197
- Language: English
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Eyewitness World War II
$16.99 Add to cartBecome an eyewitness to the terrifying global conflict that reshaped the world – from the Blitz to the atomic bomb.
In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history- Series: DK Eyewitness
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 24, 2021
- ISBN10: 0744028981
- Language: English
