1939-1945 - Personal narratives
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The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
- Author: Rawicz, Slavomir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302261X
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon
$27.95 Add to cartIt was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific–
All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan’s major cities. As the bats
- Author: Couffer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 19, 2008
- ISBN10: 0292718721
- Language: English
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Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account
$21.95 Add to cartThe hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the … [more below]
- Author: Dyess, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803266332
- Language: English
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Citizen 13660
$29.95 Read moreMine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent – nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens – who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Ci
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Okubo, Miné
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993928
- Language: English
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato
$22.95 Add to cartA young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Mitsuru, Yoshida
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1557505446
- Language: English
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Shantung Compound
$18.99 Add to cartThis vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation.
- Author: Gilkey, Langdon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060631120
- Language: English
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The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle (Revised)
$21.95 Add to cart“A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it.” —Chicago Sunday Tribune
Selected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List
J. Glenn Gray ente- Author: Gray, J. Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803270763
- Language: English
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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
$26.95 Add to cartIn the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Phili… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Onoda, Estate Of Hiroo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31, 1999
- ISBN10: 1557506639
- Language: English
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
$18.00 Add to cartA Holocaust survivor’s surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo… [more below]
- Author: Wiesenthal, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0805210601
- Language: English
