Chronological Period/1940's
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Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
$42.99 Add to cartPeter Caddick-Adams’s account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called th… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0190601892
- Language: English
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Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II
$27.99 Add to cartChoice Outstanding Academic Title
A groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both “brilliant- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Hardesty, Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 070063293X
- Language: English
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The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany
$31.95 Add to cartIn The Price of Truth, Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy’s controversial sc
- Author: Fine, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501765949
- Language: English
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955
$21.95 Read moreThe end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that o
- Author: Spector, Ronald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064447
- Language: English
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10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale
$23.99 Add to cartIn 1942, at the beginning of World War II, the US Army built its most unusual military post for its most unusual division in a high, remote, Rocky Mountain valley 100 miles west of Denver, Colorado. L… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Flint Whitlock
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109177
- Language: English
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Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code
$29.95 Add to cartThe thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler’s deadliest secret code: the framework of the Final Solution.
In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bel- Author: Bell, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366318
- Language: English
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
$29.00 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
“Magisterial.”–The New York Times
The Christian Science Monitor – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portr- Author: Smith, Jean Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0812982886
- Language: English
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Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture, comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivota… [more below]
- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 593185315
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
$22.99 Read moreA first-person historical record of the Manhattan Project, and the events leading to the birth of the Atomic bomb, as told by the researchers, scientists, and developers intimately involved in its cre… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Cynthia C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0762471271
- Language: English
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Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
$20.99 Add to cartIn Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America’s greatest secret and our worst military disaster.
Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previ- Series: Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
- Author: Stinnett, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08, 2001
- ISBN10: 0743201299
- Language: English
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American St. Nick: A TRUE story of Christmas and WWII that’s never been forgotten
$20.00 Add to cartThe American St. Nick tells the remarkable TRUE story of a handful of American soldiers who during the chaos of war, help bring Christmas back a small Luxembourg town, and unknowingly create a holiday
- Author: Lion, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 30 2019
- ISBN10: 057848174X
- Language: English
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The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Ja… [more below]
- Author: Kleiner, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0399564152
- Language: English
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Death Be Not Proud
$18.99 Add to cart“If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness and great heroism.” —New York Times
Johnny Gunther was only seventee
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Gunther, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061230979
- Language: English
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No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
$20.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of #1 New York Times bestsellers like Unbroken, Boys on the Boat, and Band of Brothers, No Surrender is an unforgettable story of a father’s extraordinary acts of valor in World War
- Author: Edmonds, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905023
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Kamikaze: A World War II Pilot’s Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation
$16.99 Add to cart**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner**
An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history. This book tells the story- Author: Odachi, Kazuo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 480531575X
- Language: English
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The Civil War
$24.99 Add to cart“Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton.” —Baltimore Sun
Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton’s The Civil War is one of the m… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage Books
- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: December 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0618001875
- Language: English
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Panzer Leader
$21.99 Add to cartGermany’s opening run of victory in World War II was only made possible by the panzer forces that Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), the father of modern tank warfare, had created and trained, and by his au
- Author: Guderian, Heinz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: December 27, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306811014
- Language: English
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
$19.99 Add to cartMeticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II–an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyal
- Author: Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 006235194X
- Language: English
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartIn modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere–old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romantic… [more below]
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0061712744
- Language: English
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
$26.99 Add to cartFor fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who
- Author: Eder, Mari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1728230926
- Language: English
