Chronological Period/1940's
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Eyes Turned Skyward
$17.99 Add to cart“Eyes Turned Skyward is a powerful examination of the cost–emotional, familial, generational–when women are denied their right to soar… Alena Dillon’s poetic prose and complex characters will ling
- Author: Dillon, Alena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 006314476X
- Language: English
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Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II
$44.95 Read more“This story of the Wright Project comprehensively captures an important but under-appreciated element of airpower history…” — Lieutenant General Bruce “Orville” Wright, USAF (ret)
In August 1943, a … [more below]
- Author: Lawless, Richard Phillip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242057
- Language: English
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The Charioteer
$16.00 Add to cartAfter enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objec… [more below]
- Author: Renault, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0375714189
- Language: English
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
$19.95 Add to cartOn April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refinerie
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352277
- Language: English
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Someone Named Eva
$9.99 Add to cartA gripping tale of one girl’s struggle against the Nazis.
“Remember who you are, Milada.” Milada’s grandmother says these words on the night the Nazi soldiers come to their home in Czechoslovakia. But- Author: Wolf, Joan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547237669
- Language: English
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de Gaulle
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize
In this definitive biography of the mythic general
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0674241452
- Language: English
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My Darling Boys: A Family at War, 1941-1947 Volume 23
$34.95 Read moreMy Darling Boys is the story of a New Mexico farm family whose three sons were sent to fight in World War II. All flew combat aircraft in the Army Air Forces. In 1973 one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a… [more below]
- Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir
- Author: Allison, Fred H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419064
- Language: English
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Solomons Air War Volume 2: Guadalcanal & Santa Cruz October 1942
$48.95 Read more“Well-written, easy to comprehend, and informative. It is an excellent source for the Pacific air war enthusiast.” — Large Scale Planes
This second volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare… [more below]
- Author: Claringbould, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0645700452
- Language: English
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Hermanos de Sangre
$30.95 Read more- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 841821774X
- Language: Spanish
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The Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troopers in World War II
$39.95 Add to cart“What is engaging about this book is that you get to hear the authentic voices of the soldiers through their memoirs, journal entries, and letters. Some are long, some are short, but all are worth rea… [more below]
- Author: Minge, Olaf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1636243231
- Language: English
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Walking D-Day
$24.95 Read morePaul Reed’s latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The pla… [more below]
- Series: Battleground Europe
- Author: Reed, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2012
- ISBN10: 1848848366
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
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Send for Me: A Novel (a Read with Jenna Pick)
$16.95 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1101972041
- Language: English
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1942: Winston Churchill and Britain’s Darkest Hour
$29.95 Read moreA revelatory new work of popular history focused on the year 1942, as the fate of Britain–and Winston Churchill’s leadership–hangs in the balance.
Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of def- Author: Downing, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362320
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World
$18.99 Read moreA compelling look at two leaders who held the world’s fate in their hands — and the holiday visit that sealed a friendship and steered the course of World War II.
At the height of World War II, Presi- Series: Junior Library Guild Selection
- Author: Wood, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0763633836
- Language: English
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No Sacrifice Too Great: The 1st Infantry Division in World War II
$39.95 Read moreThe U.S. 1st Infantry Division (1st ID), familiarly known as the Big Red One, adapted to dynamic battlefield conditions throughout the course of its deployment during World War II by innovat… [more below]
- Series: American Military Experience
- Author: Fontenot, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0826222846
- Language: English
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Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock
$25.00 Read moreA detailed and fascinating exploration of the 1945 US combined land, naval and air operation to retake Corregidor and the other Japanese-held islands in Manila Bay from a determined and well-entrenche
- Series: Campaign #325
- Author: Lardas, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854691
- Language: English
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Prague Counterpoint
$18.99 Read moreOpening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central … [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #2
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1414301081
- Language: English
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140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
$17.99 Read moreOn the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armagedd… [more below]
- Author: Dean Barrett, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1635767520
- Language: English
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The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare
$26.99 Read moreThe fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl.
What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the t
- Author: Brock, Kimberly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1400234204
- Language: English
