Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General
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The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue re… [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032941
- Language: English
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bi… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848015
- Language: English
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Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
$18.95 Add to cartIn a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945–Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092882
- Language: English
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0393080641
- Language: English
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
$18.99 Add to cartStephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0743223098
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day
$22.00 Add to cartCelebrated 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160387
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
$26.00 Add to cart” The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”–Chicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968581
- Language: English
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History
A New York Times Notable Book
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307475530
- Language: English
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Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D Day
$19.99 Add to cartThe unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II–the Allied invasion of Normandy.The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0671890913
- Language: English
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
“The Good War“ is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian.- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1565843436
- Language: English
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Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II
$28.00 Add to cartNever has the saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” had more truth than when the US government and the criminal underground joined forces to defeat the Nazi menace. For the first time ever the f… [more below]
- Author: Black, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0806542152
- Language: English
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The Battle of Midway
$23.99 Add to cartThere are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199315981
- Language: English
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
$20.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Against All Odds, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.
“Meet the assaulters: pathfin- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 045149007X
- Language: English
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
$19.95 Read moreWe Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern E… [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023454
- Language: English
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Island Infernos: The Us Army’s Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
$36.00 Read moreIn Fire and Fortitude–winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History–John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army’s fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now… [more below]
- Author: McManus, John C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0451475062
- Language: English
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Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O’Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris from the g… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593183096
- Language: English
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Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
$29.99 Read moreWinner of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Dillon Book Award
“Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense.” —Wall Street Journal
A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and
- Author: Kemper, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0358064740
- Language: English
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World War II: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come to be that there was a Seco… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weinberg, Gerhard L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 019968877X
- Language: English
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Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945
$17.99 Add to cartAn Economist Book of the Year
“A book that has long cried out to be written.” — Observer (UK), Books of the Year In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chi
A Financial Times Book of the Year- Author: Mitter, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334507
- Language: English
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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II’s Most Decorated Platoon
$19.99 Add to cartThe epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany’s leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler’s most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions
On a cold- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814404
- Language: English
