Chronological Period/1940's
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Unbroken: An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
$14.99 Add to cartIn this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian’s courage, cunning, and forti
- Author: Hillenbrand, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25, 2017
- ISBN10: 0385742525
- Language: English
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
$19.99 Add to cartThe book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1851685553
- Language: English
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
$26.99 Add to cartWho better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe
- Author: Metaxas, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1400224640
- Language: English
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The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year’s World Series, one of the nation’s strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out colle… [more below]
- Author: Keene, Anne R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1683583620
- Language: English
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The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery (Updated E
$45.00 Add to cart“A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way–ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously.” –Tom Brokaw
The first book to tell the full st- Author: Beyer, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1797225294
- Language: English
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Berlin Game: A Bernard Sampson Novel
$17.00 Add to cartBerlin Game begins with a plea from “Brahms Four,” one of Britain’s most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former
- Series: Hook, Line, and Sinker Trilogy #1
- Author: Deighton, Len
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162150
- Language: English
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The Only Woman in the Room
$16.99 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty.
Her beauty almost certainly saved
- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1492666890
- Language: English
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Winter Garden
$20.00 Add to cartMesmerizing from the first page to the last, Kristin Hannah’s Winter Garden is one woman’s sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption. At once an epic love story set in World War II R
- Author: Hannah, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0312663153
- Language: English
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The Book of Lost Names
$18.99 Add to cart“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” –Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday
- Author: Harmel, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 25, 2021
- ISBN10: 198213190X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
$20.00 Add to cartThe powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, wh- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250237092
- Language: English
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)–an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March–from the author of Bl
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07, 2002
- ISBN10: 038549565X
- Language: English
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The Flame Bearer
$16.99 Add to cartThe tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)–the basis for
- Series: Saxon Tales #10
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0062250809
- Language: English
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Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler–the “female Oskar Schindler”–who took staggering risks to save 2,500 chi
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476778515
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
$9.99 Add to cartUpdated with enlightening new material, this is the complete, definitive edition of Anne Frank‘s diary, “the single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust” (The New York Times Book Review) … [more below]
- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 03 1997
- ISBN10: 0553577123
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children’s Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death
$19.00 Add to cartKurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time).
Selected by the Modern Library as one of t- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12, 1999
- ISBN10: 0385333846
- Language: English
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The Book Thief
$16.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME
The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Deat- Author: Zusak, Markus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0375842209
- Language: English
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Black Cross
$12.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series comes a gripping World War II thriller that “vaporizes almost every clich about the limits of the genre… it’s] good enough to r… [more below]
- Series: World War II Thriller
- Author: Iles, Greg
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0451185196
- Language: English
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933
$28.95 Add to cartCalled “one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism” by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around… [more below]
- Author: Pool, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0671760831
- Language: English
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Death by Water
$16.00 Add to cartNobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and li… [more below]
- Author: OE, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125530
- Language: English
