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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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And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
$19.95 Add to cartThe book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century,- Author: Lusseyran, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1608682692
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
$19.99 Read more“Riveting, powerful, moving.”–The Observer, “Compelling . . .A book that must be read.”–Daily Mail. A story of almost unimaginable suffering.” –BBC Radio 4. “Urquhart grabs our attention with unfor… [more below]
- Author: Urquhart, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616084073
- Language: English
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The Great Escape
$17.99 Add to cartThey were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored
- Author: Brickhill, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325792
- Language: English
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Other Losses: An Investigation Into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II
$24.95 Read moreOther Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower’s policies caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in
- Author: Bacque, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0889226652
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
$31.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodi… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593632079
- 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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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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Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: The Heroic Nurses of World War II
$8.99 Read moreSoon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peac… [more below]
- Series: Women Warriors of World War II
- Author: Biskup, Agnieszka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666333972
- Language: English
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Jacob Deshazer: Forgive Your Enemies
$11.99 Read moreThree thousand feet above China, it was Jake’s turn to jump. He slid his pistol, knife, and ration packets into the pockets of his leather jacket and edged toward the open hatch of the B-52 bomber. He… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1576584755
- Language: English
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Angel of Bataan: The Life of a World War II Army Nurse in the War Zone and at Home
$26.83 Add to cartAlice Zwicker was the only service woman from Maine to be a prisoner of the enemy in either of the two World Wars. But there is more to the story than that. Across the nation, wherever one of the seve… [more below]
- Author: Macdougall, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1608933741
- Language: English
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
$39.00 Add to cartOver the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0316743798
- Language: English
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Michigan POW Camps in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs.
At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the
- Series: Military
- Author: Sumner, Gregory D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 162585837X
- Language: English
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World War II POW Camps of Wyoming
$21.99 Add to cartWyoming’s nineteen prisoner of war camps held several thousand incarcerated Italian and German prisoners during World War II. Historical records, photographs and personal stories shared by camp reside… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: O’Brien, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1467143820
- Language: English
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Forgotten Holocaust, Third Edition
$24.95 Add to cartForgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, “Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of… [more below]
- Author: Lukas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0781813026
- Language: English
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Franz Jagerstatter: Letters and Writings from Prison
$27.00 Add to cartFranz Jgersttter, an Austrian farmer, a devoted husband and father, and a devout Catholic, was executed in 1943 as a result of his refusal to serve in the Nazi army. Before taking this stand Jgersttte
- Author: Putz, Erna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1570758263
- Language: English
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
$23.00 Add to cartMonths before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler–prime architect of the Holocaust–designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small numbe… [more below]
- Author: Helm, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307278719
- Language: English
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Auschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor
$29.00 Add to cartFew people know that in the face of his execution, the notorious Rudolf Hî’›s, the Commandant for Auschwitz, met with a Polish Jesuit priest, Fr. Wladyslaw Lohn. Hî’›s made a confession to Fr. Lohn fo
- Author: Bernauer, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985294
- Language: English
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Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945
$24.95 Add to cartBataan, the last bastion stemming the Japanese tidal wave across the Pacific, was about to fall. In the midst of crashing bombs and depleted stores, the vastly outnumbered lines broke and commands dis… [more below]
- Author: Cave, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: November 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0865345597
- Language: English
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
$21.99 Add to cartThomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 afte… [more below]
- Author: Buergenthal, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0316339180
- Language: English
