Chronological Period/1940's
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance du
- Author: Kix, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062322532
- Language: English
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe
$13.99 Add to cartJune 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor
- Series: Making History
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0060762152
- Language: English
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The Vanished Collection
$17.95 Add to cart“Engrossing … The book reads like a detective story.”–The Washington Post
It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn’t seen for years, were the names of the maste
- Author: Baer de Perignon, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1939931983
- Language: English
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The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942
$28.95 Add to cartThe second part of H. P. Willmott’s three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring … [more below]
- Author: Willmott, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149495
- Language: English
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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul
$19.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted… [more below]
- Author: Baime, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 358522498
- Language: English
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Miracle at Sea: The Sinking of the Zamzam and Our Family’s Rescue
$16.00 Add to cartIn 1941, before America was at war with Germany, a German raider sunk the Egyptian liner Zamzam in the South Atlantic. On board of the vessel were more than 120 American missionaries, among them Mrs. … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: June 20 2001
- ISBN10: 1931475059
- Language: English
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Patton’s Forward Observers: History of the 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, XX Corps, Third Army
$23.95 Add to cartPatton Forward Observers is a story told by a unique collection of highly trained artillery observers who fought every step of the war with Patton’s famed Third Army. We remember Patton today only thr… [more below]
- Author: Rieth, John K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 1883911621
- 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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Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order
$17.99 Add to cartThe United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s “revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institution… [more below]
- Author: Piereson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1594038953
- Language: English
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Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
$21.95 Add to cartAs a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoon during the battle for Guam and later served as chie… [more below]
- Author: Putney, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 157488719X
- Language: English
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Fire Mission!: The Siege at Mortain, Normandy, August 1944
$17.95 Add to cartIn August 1944, a few hundred men defended a hill near Mortain, France, against a massive German counterattack. For most of the six days and nights of fighting, the Americans were cut off from supply … [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1572493135
- Language: English
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Reluctant Warrior: Former German POW Finds Peace in Texas
$22.95 Add to cartHeino Erichsen invited the reader to walk with him as he looks back upon his childhood in Nazi Germany, his surrender as an 18-year-old private with the German Afrika Korps, his survival in POW camps … [more below]
- Author: Erichsen, Heino R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685146
- Language: English
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Terry: The Inspiring Story of a Little Girl’s Survival as a POW During WWII
$29.95 Add to cartTerry’s father, Norris Wadsworth, was sent to help start a pineapple plantation and cannery on a new frontier in the Philippines. While the rich, dark soil produced golden fruit, the Wadsworths and ot… [more below]
- Author: Warne, Terry Wadsworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1432789732
- Language: English
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Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW
$18.99 Add to cartEtta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island an
- Author: Breu, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0882408100
- Language: English
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Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project’s Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
$26.95 Add to cartAt the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the … [more below]
- Series: Trillium
- Author: Thomas, Linda Carrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254047
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
$21.95 Add to cartBetween April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a
- Author: Smith, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134224
- Language: English
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II
$19.99 Add to cartWhen a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, th
- Author: Tobin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284763
- Language: English
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Six Years ‘Til Spring: A Polish Family’s Odyssey
$20.95 Add to cart- Author: Mikosz-Hintzke, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0595177204
- Language: English
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Forever Flying
$19.99 Add to cartBarnstormer, World War II fighter, pioneering test pilot, aerobatic genius–Bob Hoover is a true American hero. Now, in Forever Flying, he tells his amazing story, sharing all the thrills and chills, … [more below]
- Author: Hoover, R. A. Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 067153761X
- Language: English
