Chronological Period/1940's
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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
$20.99 Add to cartOne of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a l
- Author: Gutman, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0395901308
- Language: English
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The Gathering Storm
$25.00 Add to cartThe first in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II.
Told from the unique viewpoint of t… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0001
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 09 1986
- ISBN10: 039541055X
- Language: English
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A Soldier’s Story
$24.00 Add to cartD-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory–Omar Bradley, the “GI General,” was there for every major engagement in the Europea… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Bradley, Omar N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0375754210
- 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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Indestructible: One Man’s Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
$21.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family — imprisoned by the Japanese–and revolution… [more below]
- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0316339415
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military
$42.99 Add to cartThe first comprehensive narrative of racism in America’s World War II military and the resistance to it.
America’s World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazi- Author: Guglielmo, Thomas A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0195342658
- Language: English
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Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert’s unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day
“Lambert landed on [Omaha B
- Author: Lambert, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0062947583
- Language: English
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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
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U.S. Military Patches of World War II
$22.99 Add to cartGreat patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including SSI reproductions for comparative purposes. Learning how to defeat t… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1681623862
- 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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Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960
$16.95 Add to cartIPPY Award for Best Regional History
Reader’s Favorite Award
What happened in Vermont when the anti-Communist fear known as the “Red Scare” swept the country? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Rick Winston
- Author: Winston, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: July 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1578690072
- Language: English
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The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II
$19.95 Add to cartWith the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States the first of six s… [more below]
- Series: War and the Southwest #8
- Author: Killebrew, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1574412728
- Language: English
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Miracle at Midway
$20.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is “something special among war histories” (Chicago Sun-Times).
Six months after Pearl Harbor,- Author: Prange, Gordon W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 581
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049268
- Language: English
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The Regiment
$26.99 Add to cartThe story of an astonishing band of Canadian soldiers and their part in the Allied victory in Italy.
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canada’s most decorated regiment in the S… [more below]
- Series: Voyageur Classics #28
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1459733894
- Language: English
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The Second World War: An Illustrated History
$55.99 Read moreDiscover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns
‘A fully immersive experience. A comprehensive yet fa- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0241601320
- Language: English
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Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy Seals
$24.00 Add to cartWith echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged comradery of Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran Geo… [more below]
- Author: Dubbins, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1635768489
- Language: English
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Family Declassified
$22.95 Add to cartWhy do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry? In Family Declassified, Katherine Fennelly applies her expertise as a social science researcher to answer this question regarding her ma
- Author: Fennelly, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888191101
- Language: English
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Mengele: The Complete Story
$18.95 Add to cartBased on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-19… [more below]
- Author: Posner, Gerald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0815410069
- Language: English
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No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier
$19.95 Add to cartAs a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis’s… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Stabler, Hollis D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803220839
- Language: English
