Chronological Period/1940's
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Bomb: The Race to Build–And Steal–The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (Newbery Honor Book & National Book Award Finalist)
$24.99 Read morePerfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructi
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1596434872
- Language: English
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Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
$30.00 Read moreFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Ger… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593187423
- Language: English
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We Lived In Danger: From True Prairie Boy to Royal Regina Rifleman: A Western Canadian’s WWII Memoir
$17.99 Add to cart“We Lived in Danger” is a deeply personal and enchanting story about a small-town Canadian boy from Saskatchewan, Victor Hepburn Small, that unveils a rare and fascinating slice-of-life vignette of th
- Author: Small, Victor Hepburn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987227107
- Language: English
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
$19.95 Add to cartArundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi’s views on race, caste and imperialism.
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 160846797X
- Language: English
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Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II
$41.00 Add to cartIn the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb — and to make sure nobody saw… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396545
- Language: English
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40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of Wwii’s Bloodiest Battles
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of The 2020 Best Book Award for Military History — American Bookfest
An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were chosen for their willingness to d- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Tachovsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1684511933
- Language: English
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All Our Yesterdays
$15.99 Add to cartFrom “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.
This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy fr- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1628725087
- Language: English
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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-poundi- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0358508126
- Language: English
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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
$19.99 Add to cartRebecca Frankel’s Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills.
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
One of Smithsonian M- Author: Frankel, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250874904
- Language: English
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Across the River and Into the Trees
$18.00 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!
A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late–the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American co- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825538
- Language: English
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Tatae’s Promise: Based on the true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz
$24.99 Add to cartThis never-before-told true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz with her sister is a remarkable tale of unimaginable courage, family, faith and enduring love.
“…readers will admire Hinda’s
- Author: Maysonave, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1959096966
- Language: English
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Squirrel Is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground
$15.95 Read moreA sure to be classic in Holocaust literature from an underrepresented voice.
Squirrel is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground is the incredible story of Mary Rostad’s ear- Author: Rostad, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1682753778
- Language: English
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Stealing Home
$17.99 Read moreWhen a boy struggles after moving to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, baseball shows him another way to approach life.
Sandy Saito is a happy boy who reads comic books and is obsessed with ba
- Author: Torres, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1525303341
- Language: English
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The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature of fraud i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060825421
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
$35.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portr… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0375505008
- Language: English
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Mother Daughter Traitor Spy
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series comes a tantalizing standalone novel inspired by a real-life mother-daughter duo who stumble upon an underground Nazi cell in Los A… [more below]
- Author: MacNeal, Susan Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593156978
- Language: English
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cart“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
–David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118220
- Language: English
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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
$21.00 Read moreThe riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II–from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, … [more below]
- Author: Mackrell, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593471156
- Language: English
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The Lost Daughters of Ukraine
$19.99 Add to cartThe brand new historical novel from Erin Litteken, bestselling author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv, based on her family’s heart-wrenching escape from war-torn Europe.
A story of the strength of the hum
- Author: Litteken, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1804157724
- Language: English
