Chronological Period/1940's
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1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders comes a riveting chronicle of America’s most critical hour. On December 6, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared… [more below]
- Author: Groom, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142508
- Language: English
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A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America’s Most Important Spy in World War II
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz Kolbe, who had … [more below]
- Author: Delattre, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142311
- Language: English
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Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
$45.00 Add to cartIt is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people–mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others–lost their lives…. [more below]
- Author: Van Pelt, Robert Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 789213311
- Language: English
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
$19.99 Add to cartCompleted shortly before Ambrose’s untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation’s history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians.
Ambrose ro- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743252128
- Language: English
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945
$35.99 Add to cartThis true account of spycraft in the UK during World War II is “spellbinding…a compelling insider’s view to the shadow war: intrigue and treachery, double-dealing and deception, hope and despair, tr… [more below]
- Author: Marks, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 068486780X
- Language: English
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartFrom America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.
This aut- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856298
- Language: English
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Origins of the Second World War
$19.99 Add to cartFrom influential British historian A.J.P. Taylor, a reprint of his influential text The Origins of the Second World War. Controversial for his thesis that Hitler was an opportunist with no thorough pl… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, A. J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684829479
- 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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The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices from Leyte Gulf
$27.00 Add to cartUses personal accounts of the veterans who achieved victory in the biggest and last great naval battle, largely fought with aging ships, untested reserve crews, and teenaged combat aircraft pilots.
Aut… [more below]
- Author: Sears, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 045122132X
- Language: English
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The Circus Fire
$23.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism–the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.
It was a midsumm- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0385496850
- Language: English
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Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
$37.00 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought … [more below]
- Author: Carroll, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 0316432237
- Language: English
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
$24.99 Add to cartThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and- Author: Rosbottom, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0316217433
- Language: English
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Admiral Nimitz
$34.99 Add to cartThe biography of legendary admiral Chester W. Nimitz, master military strategist and visionary of submarine operations.
Chester Nimitz was an admiral’s Admiral, considered by many to be the greatest na- Author: Harris, Brayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0230107656
- Language: English
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The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944)
$27.99 Add to cartNin’s years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. “Transcending mere self-revelation… the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Prou… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #03
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 24 1971
- ISBN10: 0156260271
- Language: English
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Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer
$32.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
A well-rese… [more below]- Series: Aviation Week Books
- Author: O’Neill, Brian D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: May 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0071341455
- Language: English
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
The epic true story of Dunkirk–now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance
In 1940, the Al
- Author: Levine, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 006274030X
- Language: English
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All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor’s Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor
“An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest
In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donal
- Author: Stratton, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0062645366
- Language: English
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Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors
$18.99 Add to cartEdgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less
- Author: Rosen, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0062297112
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
$19.99 Add to cart“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messi
- Series: Resistance Quartet #2
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062202480
- Language: English
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For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and an acknowledged authority on the subject comes “the most important book ever written about American intelligence.”–David Kahn, author of The Codebreake… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0060921781
- Language: English
