Wars & Conflicts
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The Shipyard Agent
$26.95 Add to cartAs an undercover investigator, Augusta Clawson was assigned to Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard to join the ranks of female welders in World War II. Meanwhile, she surreptitiously sent reports back to
- Author: Hodgins, Beverly Lionberger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1493087630
- Language: English
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Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
$27.00 Add to cartSamuel Hynes served as a consultant on “The War”, directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes.
“The War” is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series th
- Author: Hynes, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002909
- Language: English
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My Year in Vietnam
$30.00 Add to cartPlucked from his workaday youth as an Irish-American kid from Brooklyn, Ryan’s military deployment to Vietnam begins in 1966 with shiftless excursions into women, booze, and reefer. As he wades ever d… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000133
- Language: English
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal P?tain
$21.95 Add to cartA Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year
“This is a story not just about P?tain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France i- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 067429937X
- Language: English
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Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.
Few write- Author: Fest, Joachim C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425123
- Language: English
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
$23.00 Add to cart“A masterpiece” (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children’s experiences in World War II across Russia
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON PO- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0399588760
- Language: English
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
$21.99 Add to cartToday, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our pe… [more below]
- Author: Emmerson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393805
- Language: English
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Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava
$23.00 Add to cartA book about those that cannot wait any longer for the world to change.
Young revolutionaries in Myanmar and Rojava, colloquially referred to by journalist James Stout as “anarchists” for their nonhier… [more below]
- Author: Stout, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1849355452
- Language: English
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This Is No Drill: Living Memories of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
$27.00 Add to cartThis fascinating and powerful collection of first-hand accounts–prepared with the assistance of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association–brings to vivid life one of the most fateful days in American h… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0425179168
- Language: English
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the “Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventee… [more below]
- Author: Wheatcroft, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 046502081X
- Language: English
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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
$35.00 Add to cartEach year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant’s choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Onc… [more below]
- Author: Moore, General Ha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 20 1992
- ISBN10: 0679411585
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Historia Militar (the Military History Book)
$29.99 Add to cartDescubre los conceptos e ideas clave detr?s de los hitos y eventos m?s importantes de la historia de la guerra, desde los comienzos de la civilizaci?n humana hasta la actualidad.
El libro de la histor
- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217130160
- Language: Spanish
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The People’s War: Forgotten Voices from World War Two
$47.99 Read more“There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun a
- Author: Willis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1785949004
- Language: English
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Dare All Dangers: The 741st Tank Battalion in World War II, D-Day to Ve-Day
$34.95 Add to cartDare All Dangers chronicles the 741st Tank Battalion during World War II. The book stands as more than a narrative history of the battalion, though it recounts the grim facts and figures. It is the st… [more below]
- Author: Warnock, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990584402
- Language: English
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Patton
$18.99 Add to cartThis magnificent biography by the world’s foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (a
- Author: Blumenson, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0688137954
- Language: English
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Dear Mom: Dear Mom: A Sniper’s Vietnam
$9.99 Add to cartIn Vietnam’s jungle war, only one group of men was feared more than death itself–the Marine Scout Snipers. . . .
The U.S. Marine Scout Snipers were among the most highly trained soldiers in Vietnam.- Author: Ward, Joseph T.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 31 1991
- ISBN10: 0804108536
- Language: English
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
$17.99 Add to cartOnce Adolf Hitler was defeated, U.S. Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke received his most challenging assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial
- Author: Townsend, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 006199720X
- Language: English
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Vietnam Journal – Book 1: Indian Country
$16.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed comic book war series from Don Lomax, nominated for a Harvey Award, is now presented as a series of graphic novel volume collections. Vietnam Journal is a look at the Vietnam War through
- Series: Vietnam Journal #1
- Author: Lomax, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: July 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1545270317
- Language: English
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G.I. G-Men: The Untold Story of the Fbi’s Search for American Traitors, Collaborators, and Spies in World War II Europe
$29.00 Add to cartThe explosive, untold true story of the band of patriotic FBI agents who went undercover to hunt down U.S. traitors on foreign soil during World War II and later investigated war criminals in the lead… [more below]
- Author: Harding, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544139
- Language: English
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$27.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
