World War
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Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima
$34.95 Read moreExisting literature maintains that the U.S. Marine Corps’ operational success in the Pacific War rested upon two dominant themes: committed theoretical preparation and courageous battlefield action. P… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Marine Corps History and Amphibious Warfare
- Author: Hemler, Christopher Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682471349
- Language: English
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Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe
$28.95 Read moreIt’s a Wonderful Life was the first motion picture Jimmy Stewart made after returning home from World War 2, where he had participated in 20 often-brutal combat missions over Germany and France. When … [more below]
- Author: Matzen, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 24 2016
- ISBN10: 0996274057
- Language: English
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Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader
$22.95 Read moreWhat did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and its assault on Europe’s Jews?
Ameri- Author: Greene, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1978821689
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
$12.99 Read moreFor fans of sea battles, adventures, and war stories like Unbroken, this is the incredible true story of a boy who helps to bring closure to the survivors of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 201
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0385730918
- Language: English
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A Gypsy in Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
$12.99 Add to cartA unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child’s survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them- Author: Rosenberg, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 180096112X
- Language: English
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a care- Author: Croke, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0812981650
- Language: English
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust–conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”–Th… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903473
- Language: English
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USS Enterprise (CV-6): The Big E from the Doolittle Raid, Midway, and Santa Cruz to Guadalcanal and Leyte
$19.99 Read moreThough it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy’s USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took part in every major action of the Pacific War, from th… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Naval #18
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0764360752
- Language: English
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Shadows in the Mind’s Eye
$17.99 Add to cart“Tromp weaves a complex historical tale incorporating love, suspense, hurt, and healing–all the elements that keep the pages turning.”
–Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author… [more below]- Author: Tromp, Janyre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0825447399
- Language: English
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Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II
$18.99 Add to cart“Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be–and just how much they’ll dare–during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Phi
- Author: Hooper, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063068907
- Language: English
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Can You Survive a World War II Escape?: An Interactive History Adventure
$34.65 Read moreCAPTURED! World War II rages across the globe, and you have fallen into enemy hands. You quickly discover that life as a prisoner of war can be brutal, and you’ll do anything to escape. Will you try m… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Great Escapes
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669061280
- Language: English
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Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II
$29.95 Read moreIn June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting immigrants, the children of immigrants, refugees, and others with language skills and knowledge of enemy lands and cultures for a special military intellig
- Author: Eddy, Beverley Driver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0811769968
- Language: English
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Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper’s 35 Combat Missions Over Germany
$24.99 Read moreAt 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing just 110 pounds, Bob Harper was below the minimum size requirements for US military service. As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harper’s defer… [more below]
- Author: Cullen, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367064
- Language: English
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Baa, Baa Black Sheep
$11.00 Add to cartHere, in his own words, is the true story of America’s wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all–the fight to survive.
The World War II air war in the Pacif- Author: Boyington, Gregory
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0553263501
- Language: English
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Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
$35.00 Add to cartOne of the last, great untold stories of World War II–kept hidden for decades–even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various a… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655816
- Language: English
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Refugees on the Run
$7.99 Read moreOver 1 Million Sold in the Series!
When kids step into the Imagination Station they travel back in time and across the world with cousins Patrick and Beth. Each book is historically accurate, and reade… [more below]- Author: Brack, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 164607095X
- Language: English
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What We Leave Behind
$17.95 Read moreIn 1947, war bride Ursula arrives in Minneapolis torn between guilt over leaving loved ones behind and her desire to start a new life–and a family–in this promised land. But the American dream prove… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher Kearney, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424933
- Language: English
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Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
$32.00 Read moreA revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze–the suicide pilots of World War II–as told through the eyes of the survivors
In the final year of World War II, a horrific new we- Author: Sheftall, M. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593472314
- Language: English
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In Harm’s Way (Young Readers Edition): The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Story of Its Survivors
$19.99 Read moreA young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias’ New York Times bestseller In Harm’s Way–a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history.
“A maste- Series: True Rescue
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250771323
- Language: English
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On the Home Front with Valentina: A Diary from 1940 to 1943
$28.65 Read moreCreated in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino, Nuestras Voces shares inspiring Latino stories. In 1940, eleven-year-old Valentina lives in El Paso,… [more below]
- Series: Nuestras Voces
- Author: Oviedo, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669012727
- Language: English
