Chronological Period/1940's
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Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s Chocolate Pilot
$9.95 Read moreOne WWII pilot’s mission to lift the spirits of children living in war-torn Berlin in 1945 comes to life in this moving middle-grade historical account. After World War II the United States and Britai… [more below]
- Author: Tunnell, Michael O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1580893376
- Language: English
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Nanea: The Spirit of Aloha
$7.99 Read moreNanea Mitchell may be the youngest in her family, but she knows she’s old enough to do grown-up things. Before she can prove she’s ready for responsibility, the unthinkable happens. Japan attacks Pear… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Larson, Kirby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371380
- Language: English
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
$21.00 Read moreIn 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Beate Sirota
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2014
- ISBN10: 022613251X
- Language: English
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Most Secret: Mi9 Escape and Evasion Devices
$28.00 Read morePublished for the first time since its creation in 1942, this ‘most secret’ facsimile reveals the many marvellous and ingenius escape aids created by MI9 to help Allied personnel both evade capture an… [more below]
- Author: Paterson, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1912423677
- Language: English
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Duel in the Deep: The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to the Finish
$34.95 Read moreIn Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II’s longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships using new tactics, technologies, and weaponry dominated … [more below]
- Author: Sears, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682475603
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
$17.99 Read more“Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered. It beautifully captures the strength of the bond between a father and son.”–Heather
- Author: Dronfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0063019299
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker
$32.95 Read more“By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth… I managed to prevent Stalin’s dark and murky ambition from taking roo… [more below]
- Author: Rzhevskaya, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1784382817
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$30.00 Read moreThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178523
- Language: English
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11th Waffen-SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland”: An Illustrated History
$45.00 Read moreThe 11th SS Freiwilligen (Volunteer) Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland” was formed in 1943. Despite what the name indicated, this was not an all-volunteer or fully Nordic unit. The ranks were filled … [more below]
- Series: Divisions of the Waffen-SS #11
- Author: Afiero, Massimiliano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367803
- Language: English
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Eagles Over Britain
$19.99 Read moreThe saga of the Littlefield family continues with this rich and evocative second installment in the AFTER DUNKIRK series.
The Battle of Dunkirk might be finished, but the war isn’t over.
“…compelling
- Series: The After Dunkirk #2
- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1648754783
- Language: English
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The Sinking of the Bl?her: The Battle of Drobak Sound, April 1940
$55.00 Read moreA lesser-known event during World War II, the sinking of the Bl?her is key part of naval history that marked the beginning of the Norwegian Campaign. The Sinking of the Bl?her is a comprehensive inves… [more below]
- Author: Haarr, Geirr H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1784388750
- Language: English
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The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II
$34.95 Read moreOn September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary of w
- Author: Aldrich, Edward Farley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 081177094X
- Language: English
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Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT Boats at Guadalcanal
$32.95 Add to cartEighty feet long, built of layered mahogany and powered by three monstrous 1500-horsepower V-12 engines, the US Navy’s Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats screamed across the water at over forty knots. They wer
- Author: Lloyd, Keith Warren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072064
- Language: English
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Horse Diaries #4: Maestoso Petra
$7.99 Add to cartVienna, Austria, 1938
Maestoso Petra is a world-famous Lipizzaner stallion. He has spent years in the Spanish Riding School, training to perform the complex airs above the ground that only Lipizzaner- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #4
- Author: Kendall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0375858423
- Language: English
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Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume 2: August-December 1944 Volume 2
$41.95 Read moreThis second of three volumes of Patton’s War picks up where the first one left off, examining General George S. Patton’s leadership of the U.S. Third Army. The book follows Patton’s contributions to b… [more below]
- Series: American Military Experience
- Author: Hymel, Kevin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0826222781
- Language: English
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Guderian 1941: The Barbarossa Campaign
$37.95 Read moreAn in-depth account of the advance of Heinz Guderian’s Second Panzer Group across the central Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa.
During the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s inva… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1526762129
- Language: English
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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II
$30.00 Read moreThe first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances.
This book dis- Author: McGaugh, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 147285294X
- Language: English
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Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Gazala to Tunisia, 1942-43
$45.00 Read moreRobert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel’s Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943.
The war in the North Afric- Author: Forczyk, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1472859847
- Language: English
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The War Magician: Based on an Extraordinary True Story
$16.99 Read moreBased on an extraordinary true story and soon to be a major film produced by and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The War Magician is the remarkable tale of the man who used the powers of illusion to fi
- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79821E+12
- Language: English
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The Secret Midwife
$16.99 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of The London Girls comes a story of courage and resilience amidst the horror of Auschwitz–and one woman’s last chance to share it with the world.
London, 1995: When on th
- Author: Lane, Soraya M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662504063
- Language: English
