Chronological Period/1940's
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The Tobacco Wives
$27.99 Read moreMost anticipated by USA Today, W Magazine, New York Post, Parade, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Reader’s Digest, and PopSugar and named one of the best historical fiction books of the year by Cosmopolitan!
“A bea
- Author: Myers, Adele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063082934
- Language: English
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu’s brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo:
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062200127
- Language: English
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The Ship of Brides
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and Someone Else’s Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures.
194- Author: Moyes, Jojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126474
- Language: English
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Once
$11.99 Add to cartFelix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn’t know anything about the war, and thinks he’s only in the orphanage while hi
- Series: Once #1
- Author: Gleitzman, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0312653042
- Language: English
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The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
- Author: Rawicz, Slavomir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302261X
- Language: English
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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
$32.00 Read moreThe New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous en
Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022
Booklist, Best Books of 2022- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 154170066X
- Language: English
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And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
$19.95 Add to cartThe book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century,- Author: Lusseyran, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1608682692
- Language: English
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The B-17 Tomahawk Warrior: A WWII Final Honor
$24.99 Add to cartThe Tomahawk Warriors, a crew of nine who perished in a 1944 B-17 Flying Fortress crash in England, was a mystery of WWII until explained in this book. It would have lain in partial obscurity if it we
- Author: Huntley, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1734689919
- Language: English
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
$20.99 Add to cartA joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s world
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two imm- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1250053129
- Language: English
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Do Tell
$30.00 Read more“There is little more alluring than the promise of secrets, and Do Tell is full of them–glamorous, tawdry, and human. Lindsay Lynch has created a rich portrait of the lives of early Hollywood’s beaut… [more below]
- Author: Lynch, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593744241
- Language: English
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El Hombre En Busca Del Sentido
$14.99 Add to cartEl Doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion par
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 11 2017
- ISBN10: 168411425X
- Language: Spanish
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The Shadow King
$17.95 Add to cartSet during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical reco
- Author: Mengiste, Maaza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358518
- Language: English
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The Notebook
$17.99 Add to cartExperience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart — coming to Broadway as a musical in Februa… [more below]
- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446676098
- Language: English
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Making Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
$45.00 Add to cartIncludes a code for a bonus in-game Operator skin for Call of Duty(R) Modern Warfare(R) “
The global balance of power is teetering on the brink of collapse. A diverse cast of international special forc
- Author: McVittie, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1950366022
- Language: English
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The Girl Behind the Wall
$16.99 Add to cart“A poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chance-my heart ached for them on every page. Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network
- Author: Robotham, Mandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0008462917
- Language: English
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The Upstairs Room
$9.99 Add to cartNewbery Honor Book – ALA Notable Book – An SLJ Best Book – A Jane Addams Award Honor Book – Winner of the Jewish Book Council Children’s Book Award
A classic WWII survivor story based on award-winning
- Author: Reiss, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0062849808
- Language: English
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Air Raid
$10.50 Add to cartA powerful work by the heralded writer, this collection is a touchstone event in German literature of the post-war era.
On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their Ge- Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
- Author: Kluge, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090367
- Language: English
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The Tin Drum
$17.99 Add to cartOne of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental i… [more below]
- Author: Grass, Günter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0547339100
- Language: English
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The Sea and Poison
$16.95 Add to cartThe Sea and Poison was the first Japanese book to confront the problem of individual responsibility in wartime, painting a searing picture of the human race’s capacity for inhumanity. At the outset of… [more below]
- Series: Revived Modern Classic #0737
- Author: Endo, Shusaku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: April 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0811211983
- Language: English
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The Thin Red Line
$18.00 Add to cartThey are the men of C-for-Charlie company–“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them–infantrymen who are about … [more below]
- Author: Jones, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0385324081
- Language: English
