Chronological Period/1940's
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Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
$33.00 Add to cartAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531586
- Language: English
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War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II
$27.95 Add to cartA leading naval and military historian presents the first book to cover the major submarine campaigns in all the WWII theaters. Vividly recreates the experience of submarine and anti-submarine warfare… [more below]
- Author: Padfield, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0471249459
- Language: English
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened — and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.
In the fall of 1943, at- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0316244627
- Language: English
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Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
$20.00 Add to cartThe inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II
Gino Bartali i- Author: McConnon, Aili
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0307590658
- Language: English
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Defiance
$17.98 Add to cartThe prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveti… [more below]
- Author: Tec, Nechama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0195376854
- Language: English
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Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck
$9.99 Add to cartA stunning look at World War II from the other side…
From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel’s 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland,- Series: World War II Libary
- Author: Luck, Hans Von
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0440208025
- Language: English
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Then
$11.99 Add to cartFelix and Zelda have escaped the death camp train, but where do they go now? They’re two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. Danger lies at every turn of the ro
- Series: Once #2
- Author: Gleitzman, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1250003415
- Language: English
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Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.99 Add to cartThis is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to “pass” in the forb… [more below]
- Series: Galaxy Book #0772
- Author: Tec, Nechama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0195035003
- Language: English
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Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
$18.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett–a US Navy destroyer that sustained the mos… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982147849
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
$29.99 Add to cart“A masterly work of military and judicial history.” —New York Times. Telford Taylor’s book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Telford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1620877880
- Language: English
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Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City
$18.99 Add to cartThe “gripping and meticulously researched” (The Times, London) true story of the determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China’s Forbidden City in the years leading up to World… [more below]
- Author: Brookes, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1982149310
- Language: English
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The Navajo Code Talkers: 50th Anniversary Edition
$17.00 Add to cartAbout the Book
For five decades The Navajo Code Talkers has achieved attention and acclaim from well-respected sources. First published in 1973 over 50,000 copies have been sold to date. The book has b
- Author: Paul, Doris A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890270313
- Language: English
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
$16.99 Add to cartJan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2008
- ISBN10: 039333306X
- Language: English
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Scramble for Africa…
$24.99 Add to cartWhite Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912- Author: Pakenham, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0380719991
- Language: English
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
$21.99 Add to cartJune 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia — population just 3,000 in 1944 — died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day
They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, … [more below]- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: May 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813556
- Language: English
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Building the National WWII Museum
$34.95 Add to cartAs the second-most visited museum in the United States, The National WWII Museum attracts hundreds of thousands of patrons every year to its campus in New Orleans. Guests can tour its extensive perman
- Author: Mueller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179515
- Language: English
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The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945
$26.00 Add to cartAn absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power.
“This is history in the- Series: History of the Third Reich
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116711
- Language: English
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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder: The True Story
$17.95 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller For viewers of the hit Series I Am the Night and fans of the Root of Evil Podcast, the book that finally revealed the shocking identity of the Black Dahlia Killer–and the… [more below]
- Author: Hodel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724390
- Language: English
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The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
$22.95 Read more“An immensely valuable and substantial addition to 10th Mountain literature and to the history of skiing in the United States.”
– International Ski History AssociationThe Boys of Winter tells the true
- Author: Sanders, Charles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: July 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0870818236
- Language: English
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Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
$21.00 Add to cartNow a movie starring Luke Wilson, Vinessa Shaw, and Wayne Knight!
Jim Dent, author of the New York Times bestselling The Junction Boys, returns with his most powerful story of human courage and determi- Author: Dent, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0312384874
- Language: English
