Inventing Japan: 1853-1964by Ian BurumaPaperback208 Pages2004 In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has...

Last Hope Islandby Lynne OlsonPaperback576 Pages2017 A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times...

The Nazis Huntersby Andrew NagorskiPaperback432 Pages2017 More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close. Their saga is finally told in this “deep and sweeping account of a...

Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 By: Stephen E. Ambrose Paperback 432 Pages Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the...

Once There Was a War (Penguin Classic Edition) by John SteinbeckPaperback187 Pages“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald...

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Chrisopher R. BrowningPaperback384 PagesFebruary 2017 “A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book.....

Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and Training in the German Army, 1920-39by Robert CitinoPaperback320 Pages2007 •Essential background to the German blitzkrieg of World War II•Complements the stories of panzer aces like Otto Carius and Michael...

Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose Paperback 208 Pages In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe...

Quotations of Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt Hardcover32 Pages2010 America's 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the country's top office four times, making him the only president to serve more than two terms. FDR led the...

SBS-Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime Historyby Saul DavidPaperback528 Pages2021 THE FIRST AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE SBS. Britain’s SBS – or Special Boat Service – was the world’s first maritime special operations unit...

Steel Cavalry: The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign  by Lee WindsorPaperback200 PagesNovember 2011 Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments...

The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present by William I. HitchcockPaperbackFebruary 2004560 PagesFrom the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous...

Taking Paris: The Epic Battle of the City of Lightsby Martin DugardPaperback400 PagesSeptember 2022NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill...

The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950sby William I. HitchcockPaperback672 Pages2019 A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s...

The Battle of Guadalcanal: Naval History Special Edition by Trent HonePaperback120 PagesMay 2022Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer studies of...

The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments MenBy Robert M. Edsel Hardcover368 pages2019Age Range: 9 - 12Grade Level: 4 - 7 Robert M. Edsel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men, brings this story to young...

The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 Nigel Hamilton Paperback 544 Pages 2014 Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s...

The Pacificby Hugh Ambrose Paperback528 Pages In this companion to the HBO® miniseries-executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman-Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier...

The Phenomenon of Anne Frank  by David Barnouw, Jeannetter K. Ringold (Translator)Paperback141 pagesFebruary, 2018 “Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer...

The Pope of Physics Gino SegrèPaperback372 Pages2017 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world’s physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called “the Pope” by his peers, he was regarded as...