World War II
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Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
$21.95 Add to cartAward-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.
The “Devil Dogs” of- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365761
- Language: English
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
$18.00 Read moreTwenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Ti
- Author: Matzen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: May 12, 2020
- ISBN10: 1732273588
- Language: English
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, a World War II spy adventure set in Norway that draws on top-secret documents and memoirs of the sabot… [more below]
- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544947290
- Language: English
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
$30.00 Add to cart“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries…laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”–Pub… [more below]
- Author: Winters, Dick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0425208133
- Language: English
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Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Desperadoes Who Plotted Hitler’s Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-Day Black Ops
$17.99 Add to cartIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain’s wartime leader called for the lightning development of a … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1529432332
- Language: English
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Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker’s Wife, and Mussolini’s Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
$18.99 Read moreIn a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: “A tantalizingly novelistic history lesson” (Kir… [more below]
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1538751275
- Language: English
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Vanishing Point: The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front
$29.95 Add to cartIn Vanishing Point, award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie, and an eclectic group of enthusiasts who have spent years
- Author: Wilber, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501769642
- Language: English
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The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue re… [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032941
- Language: English
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81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska’s Frozen Wilderness
$18.99 Add to cart“A riveting…saga of survival against formidable odds” (Washington Post) about one man who survived a World War II plane crash in Alaska’s harsh Yukon territory
Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five … [more below]- Author: Murphy, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0306824523
- Language: English
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In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Revised and Updated)
$19.99 Add to cart“Always a classic and now even better–a masterful account of one of history’s most poignant and tragic secrets.”–Lee Child
Now available in an updated trade paperback edition, In Harm’s Way is the b- Author: Stanton, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1250853494
- Language: English
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bi… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848015
- Language: English
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Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
$18.95 Add to cartIn a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945–Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092882
- Language: English
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Attu Boy: A Young Alaskan’s WWII Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartIn the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Al… [more below]
- Author: Golodoff, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1602232490
- Language: English
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Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAny consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Caplan, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198706952
- Language: English
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
$35.00 Add to cartThis masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War–the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944–when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan’s far
- Series: Pacific War Trilogy #2
- Author: Toll, Ian W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0393080641
- Language: English
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
$18.99 Add to cartStephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0743223098
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$35.00 Add to cartThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 1400063140
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day
$22.00 Add to cartCelebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood Rangers
In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160387
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
$26.00 Add to cart” The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”–Chicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968581
- Language: English
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History
A New York Times Notable Book
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307475530
- Language: English
