World War II
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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
$27.99 Add to cartFor Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0700617914
- Language: English
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Into the Lion’s Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond
$24.00 Add to cartInternational bestseller!
James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and wa- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0593473973
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Personal Recollections
$25.00 Read moreThe author describes the loss of her home in Eastern Europe during World War II, her family’s deportation to a Nazi labor camp, and their eventual arrival in the United States. Relying on historic sou… [more below]
- Author: Chmara, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1950423808
- Language: English
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The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II
$18.99 Add to cartThis “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered d
- Author: Obmascik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 145167838X
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front
$54.98 Add to cartIn the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Bidermann, Gottlob Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0700611223
- Language: English
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
$23.00 Add to cartA long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia–from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0399588744
- Language: English
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartNovember 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes–only to be met by … [more below]
- Author: Heimann, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033259
- Language: English
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Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Paradis’s Last Mission to Tokyo, a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal) and “engrossing…richly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) account of a key but underreported moment in World Wa… [more below]
- Author: Paradis, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 150110473X
- Language: English
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Bombing Hitler’s Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
$28.00 Read moreOne of WWII’s final untold stories, this visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler’s hometown of Linz, Austria is now told for the first time through… [more below]
- Author: Croissant, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543027
- Language: English
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How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can’t… [more below]
- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774728
- Language: English
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Father and Son: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father’s experience in World War II, by a winner… [more below]
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593863151
- Language: English
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The Language of Victory: Code Talkers of WWI and WWII
$14.95 Add to cartFeaturing rare interviews with Comanche, Choctaw and Navajo code talkers, this easy-to-read non-fiction book recounts how American Indian soldiers from twenty different tribes used their native langua
- Author: Robinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0980027276
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East
$39.00 Add to cartOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Military Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Stahel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 052117015X
- Language: English
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herber… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Herbert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 06 2002
- ISBN10: 030681160X
- Language: English
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cart“Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece th
- Author: Friedlander, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0060930489
- Language: English
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Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother’s Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter’s Nightmare
$16.99 Read moreAn award-winning journalist discovers that her grandfather, the legendary and heroic Lithiuanian “General Storm” who survived a Nazi concentration camp only to later be executed by the Russians, may a… [more below]
- Author: Foti, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513022
- Language: English
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Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir
$13.99 Add to cartThe remarkable autobiography of a Holocaust escapee.
“Go on, my son. Maybe you will survive…”
Aron Goldfarb was fifteen years old when he was ripped from his bed in Poland and forced to enter a Jewish
- Author: Goldfarb, Aron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1839012897
- Language: English
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Alms for Oblivion: Sunset on the Pacific War
$10.00 Add to cartAsia, 1945. The War in Europe is over. Undeterred, the Japanese Empire fights on. With millions of loyal troops at its disposal and holdings that extend over thousands of miles, the Allies still have
- Series: Peter Kemp War Trilogy #3
- Author: Kemp, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1087913438
- Language: English
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
$18.99 Add to cartAs heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and “engaging history” (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive vict… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 031649206X
- Language: English
