Wars & Conflicts
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice–and how their story echoes across generations.
“Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Ina, Satsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 159714696X
- Language: English
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Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine
$22.95 Add to cartThe white-knuckled saga of a maverick captain, nine courageous sailors, and a US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944–capturing Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encr… [more below]
- Author: Lachman, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150313
- Language: English
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Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph … [more below]
- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593685539
- Language: English
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Nose Art of the 5th Air Force: Pin-Ups and More, 1942-1947
$69.99 Add to cartThis massive volume includes more than 1,150 vintage images of WWII aircraft nose art. The artwork appears on American planes in the Pacific theater, specifically from the US 5th Air Force. Readers wi… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0764369210
- Language: English
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Report from #24: The Thrilling Tale of Norway’s Most Decorated World War II Hero
$22.95 Add to cartWhen Hitler’s invasion shattered Norway’s peace of one hundred years, Gunnar Sonsteby, a timid youth, was destined to become the legendary “No. 24,” whose exploits earned the highest honors Norway cou… [more below]
- Author: Sonsteby, Gunnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1569808120
- Language: English
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Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy
$29.95 Add to cartWrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster–the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Super… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865417
- Language: English
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Matisse at War
$29.00 Add to cartSpotlighting the years during WWII when Henri Matisse and his family defiantly refused to evacuate Nazi-occupied France, this groundbreaking book illuminates the previously untold history of their pas… [more below]
- Author: Gorham, Christopher C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0806544163
- Language: English
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Gunners!
$23.95 Add to cart- Author: Blackwell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1961505460
- Language: English
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Midnight Flyboys: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II
$30.00 Add to cartThe untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.
In 1943,- Author: Henderson, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668051419
- Language: English
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Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by Fire
$31.99 Add to cartBetween 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324117575
- Language: English
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The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
$17.99 Add to cartThe first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt’s unprecedented and courageous trip to the Pacific Theater during World War II.
On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First
- Author: McKenna Schmidt, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1728297222
- Language: English
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A Short History of World War I
$23.99 Add to cartWorld War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagined proportions as the same ground — places like Ypr… [more below]
- Series: Short History
- Author: Stokesbury, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0688001297
- Language: English
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
$35.00 Add to cartA major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II–tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia
In the We- Author: Hellbeck, Jochen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593657381
- Language: English
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Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
$19.95 Add to cartConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Viol… [more below]
- Author: Stillman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0299193942
- Language: English
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Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind
$28.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary true story of the Afghan women judges who fought for justice in the courtroom, and then fought to escape with their lives, from the bestselling British author
Across twenty years of
- Author: Bartlett, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978733
- Language: English
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0812982142
- Language: English
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II
Countless books have been written abo- Author: Kershaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122134
- Language: English
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Darkhorse: Harnessing Hidden Potential in War and Life
$29.99 Add to cartA transformative war story that challenges traditional views of toughness and leadership, where masculinity develops from empathy, grit is born from failure, and power comes from placing service above
- Author: Pasciuti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1400254973
- Language: English
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tole… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0812982762
- Language: English
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartThe untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war
At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence ag
- Author: Graham, Elyse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 006328085X
- Language: English
