Biographies

Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientistby Jennet ConantPaperback608 PagesSeptember 2017 “Gripping...an outstanding portrait of a technocrat, at work and at home.”— The Wall Street Journal“Evocative.....

Man's Search For MeaningBy: Viktor E. FranklPaperback192 Pages Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl...

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald MillerSpecial Edition Paperback688 PagesJanuary 2024 The inspiration for the major Apple TV+ series The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in...

Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trail of the Nazisby Tim TownsendHardcover400 pagesMarch 2014 Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend’s gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis...

Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe Robert Matzen Hardcover 400 Pages 2016 In March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America’s boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and joined the United States Army Air Corps...

Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud Jeff Stoffer Hardcover 118 Pages 2010 This is the story of one remarkable woman, whose devotion to a generation of heroes transcended all boundries. Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the liberation of...

My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Memories of War) By: Lester Tenney Paperback220 Pages Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half...

Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold Kenneth Alford 320 Pages 2018 During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of...

Never to Return Randall Peffer Paperback 264 Pages 2017 Never to Return is the harrowing tale of the torpedoing and sinking of a Coast Guard ship and the loss of 171 Coast Guardsmen off the coast of Iceland during WWII. The USS Leopold was a...

Night: Memorial EditionHardcoverBy: Elie Wiesel158 Pages2017 A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White...

Nuremberg's Voice of  Doom: The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History's Greatest TrialsBy: Wolfe FrankEditor: Paul HooleyHardcover224 Pages2018 The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique...

Nursing Churchill: Wartime Life from the Private Letters of Winston Churchill's Nurse Jill Rose Hardcover 304 Pages 2018 A fresh perspective on Churchill and wartime life through the eyes of the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister...

Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II from Guadalcanal to Peleliuby Amy Rupertus Peacock and Don BrownHardcover448 PagesFeb 2022 Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known...

Old Hickory: The 30th Division: The Top-Rated American Infantry Division in Europe in World War II by Robert BaumerHardcover584 PagesJuly 2017  The best U.S. division at war, from Normandy to the Bulge and beyondThe 30th Infantry Division, drawn...

  One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC by Charity Adams Earley Paperback232 Pages Ocotber 1995   When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the...

Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice Efraim Zuroff Paperback 256 Pages 2008 Sixty years after the end of World War II, not all those who were faithful to the Third Reich are dead - some members of the Nazi...

Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Storiesby Anthony S. PitchPaperback360 PagesNovember 2020The haunting true stories of over 350 Holocaust survivors in their own words.In the shouted words of a woman bound...

Over Lord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War IIby Thomas HughesPaperback396 PagesOctober 2022Over Lord is the fascinating story of how American tactical air power was developed by General Elwood "Pete" Quesada...

Painting War: George Plante's Combat Art in World War IIby Kathleen Broome WilliamsHardcover312 PagesMay 2019 Scottish artist George Plante did not enter World War II as an artist but as a volunteer radio operator in the British merchant fleet. There he...

Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich David Kenyon Webster Paperback 2002 David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of...

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...

Patton's Madness: The Dark Side of the Battlefield Genius by Jim SudmeierHardcover280 PagesDecember 2019 Dwight Eisenhower called General George S. Patton "mentally unbalanced" and "just like a time bomb," and indeed, the egotistical, mercurial,...

Phantom Father: A Daughter's Quest for Elegy Sharon Estill Taylor, PhDHardcover352 Pages A daughter’s search and recovery mission to bring home her father, 1Lt. Shannon Estill, a P-38 fighter pilot and one of the last casualties of World War II.

Plunder HC By Menachem HaiserHardcover288 PagesMarch 2021 From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that...

Prisoner of the Rising Sun: The Lost Diary of Brigadier General Lewis Beebe by: Brigadier General Lewis BeebeHardcover266 Pages A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, Prisoner of...

PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedyby William DoylePaperback368 PagesJune 2016 The extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power – hailed as a...

Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940 by Robert CitinoPaperback392 Pages Since the earliest days of warfare, military operations have followed a predictable formula: after a decisive battle, an army must pursue the...

Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor CampChristopher R. BrowningPaperback416 pagesProduct Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches In 1972 the Hamburg State Court acquitted Walter Becker, the German chief of police in the Polish city of...

Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography Florant Silloray Hardcover 88 Pages 2017 "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. --Robert Capa Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography is a brilliant portrayal of the career of the great war...

Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Centerby Ray MonkPaperbackMarch 2014880 PagesAn unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America’s most brilliant—and most...

Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionageby Joseph PeriscoPaperback592 PagesOctober 2002Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime...

Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from The Nazis By Deborah Dwork Hardcover 256 pages 2025 A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II. Long before their...

Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Livesby Bob WelchHardcover 380 PagesApril 2021 “A quintessential tale. Once read, never to be forgotten.” —Erik...

Schindler's List Thomas Keneally Paperback 400 Pages 1993 The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for the classic film—“a masterful...

  Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell   by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes (Editor) Hardcover224 PagesJanuary 2004   Battle diaries are essential for understanding what generals are...

Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Shar pshooter from the Band of Brothers by Marcus BrothertonPaperback304 Pages2012 From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography...

Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth Steve Snyder Hardcover 376 Pages 2014 Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and Alive For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying...

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the HolocaustBy: Michael GrenbaumPaperback384 PagesApril 2017Resilience shines throughout Michael Gruenbaum’s “riveting memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about his time in the...

Spy fo No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World by Dave LindorffHardcover302 PagesNovember 2023 At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at...

Stalag Luft III (Images of War)by Charles MessengerPaperback136 PagesMay 2019 In early 1942 the Third Reich opened a maximum security prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain...

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...

Strike and HoldT. Moffatt BurrisHardcover254 Pages2000 This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World...

Strong Men ArmedBy: Robert LeckiePaperback561 Pages2010 This powerful memoir written by a decorated World War II veteran retells the tumultuous stories of personal struggles and the impact of a chaotic world, told "with that truth recognizable to every...

Survival In AuschwitzBy: Primo LeviPaperback187 Pages1995 The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a...

Tap Dancing All the Way to Omaha Beach By: Max Jacobson and Ron Jacobson Paperback 80 Pages 2011 "THIS IS MY LIFE AS I REMEMBER" was what my Dad wrote. And so it remains as the opening Title to the memoir. But as the title of the book I...

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 Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews Peter Duffy Paperback 336 Pages 2004 In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away...

The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel SwiftPaperbackNovember 2017320 Pages In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. Before...

The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japanby Stephen HardingHardcover320 Pages2016 In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her...

The Churchill Factor:How One Man Made History By:Boris Johnson Hardback 288 pages On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century...

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Foundby Bart Van EsPaperback304 PagesAugust 2019The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of...

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944By: Rick AtkinsonHardcover823 Pages In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the...

The Day the Nazis Came: My Childhood Journey from Britain to a German Concentration Camp by Stephen R. Matthews (Author)  Hardcover229 PagesDecember 2016   By the time he was six years old, Stephen had been bombarded by the...

The Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 by Robert M. CitinoPaperback431 Pages For 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...

The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War by James ConroyHardcover432 PagesJune 2023 Written with “a cinematic sense of urgency and realism” (Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author), this is the...

The Diary of a Young Girl By: Anne Frank(Author), Otto H. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor), Susan Massotty (Translator), Francine Prose (Introduction) Hardcover 320 Pages The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a...

The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Sideby: Damien LewisHardcover304 PagesJuly 2015 “A thoroughly enjoyable story of heroism and true friendship” (Publishers Weekly,...

The Flight: A Father's War, A Son's Searchby Tyler BridgesHardback240 Pages2021 Both history and memoir, The Flight tells the story of Richard W. “Dick” Bridges’s heroic service in World War II. Bridges survived a German attack on his...

The Footsteps of Anne Frank By: Ernst Schnabel Paperback 192 Pages 2015 Ernst Schnabel interviewed 42 of the people mentioned by Anne Frank in her diary, including her father, other family members, and close relatives and friends, in order to...

The General's Niece Paige Bowers Hardcover 288 Pages 2017 "My dear Uncle Charles," twenty-two-year-old Genevieve de Gaulle wrote on May 6, 1943. "Maybe you have already heard about the different events affecting the family." The general's brother...

The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Robert M. Citino Paperback428 Pages For Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ("short and lively") - wars that relied upon swift, powerful,...

The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushellby Simon PearsonPaperback456 PagesMay 2021A Sunday Times bestseller, the real story behind the mastermind of the most famous breakout in history—The Great Escape.While the most famous...

The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflectionsby Tom BrokawPaperback237 PagesJune 2001NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation...

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945By: Rick AtkinsonHardcover896 Pages The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II. It is the twentieth...

The Journey of the Purple Heart: A First Infantry Division Soldier's Story from Stateside to North Africa, Sicily and Normandy during World War II as told by Robert W. BaumerPaperback544 PagesFebruary 2022 Bob, a happy-go-lucky kid from Connecticut,...

The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and Peace David Woolner Hardcover 368 Pages 2017 A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions The...

The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal Howard Blum Hardcover 528 Pages 2016 The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting...

The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battallion and the Battle That Defined WWIIby Bob Drury and Tom ClavinHardcover416 PagesNov. 2022 Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's...

The Last of the 357th Infantry: Harold Frank's WWII Story of Faith and Courageby Mark HagerHardcover324 PagesMay 2022For those who loved Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers and E.B. Sledge's With the Old Breed. Drawing on toughness and skills...

The Lou Conter Story: From USS Arizona Survivor to Unsung American Hero by Louis Conter, Annette Hull, and Warren HullPaperback239 PagesJanuary 2021 The Lou Conter Story: From USS Arizona Survivor to Unsung American Hero tells the incredible story...

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot Col. Robert Morgan Paperback 416 Pages 2011 A powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire, this is the unforgettable memoir of a member of the Greatest Generation...

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 Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-Boatsby William GerouxPaperback432 PagesMarch 21, 2017 “Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The...

The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of the Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Lecia Camera Factory, and the Nazi Resistance by Sasha ColbyPaperback248 PagesSeptember 2023 “[Colby] breathes new life into well-trodden WWII tropes, building a vivid,...

The Nazi and the PsychiatristBy: Jack El-HaiPaperback305 Pages2014In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and...

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany Gwen Strauss Hardback336 Pages2021 The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female...

  The Paratroopers Generals: Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy By: Mitchell Yockelson 320 Pages 2020   Generals during World War II usually stayed to the rear, but not Matthew Ridgway and...

The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extrodinary Collaboration That Won World War II by Edward Farley AldrichHardcover560 PagesApril 2022 On September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn...

  The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi PastBy: Julie LindahlHardcover 256 Pages2018   This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl’s journey to uncover her grandparents’...

The Real Tenko: Extraordianry True Stories of Women Prisoners of The Japanese By: Mark FeltonPaperback176 Pages2011 This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a...

The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Paul Kix Hardcover 304 Pages 2017 In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy...

The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War IIby David ChrisingerHardcover400 PagesMay 30, 2023 Named a best book of 2023 by BooklistA beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World...

Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower By: Stephen E. Ambrose Paperback 768 Pages In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s...

The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa By Mark Stille Hardcover 304 Pages 2021 A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations, and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945.  

The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War IIby James LaceyPaperback592 PagesApril 2020A Team of Rivals for World War II—the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged...

The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 by Robert CitinoPaperback440 Pages2016 Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own...

The Wehrmachts Last Stand - The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 by Robert CitinoPaperback632 PagesNov. 2017 By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army...

The Writing on the Wall: How one boy, my father, survived the Holocaust by Juliet RiedenPaperback267 PagesAugust 2019'Memoirs such as this will ensure we do not lose the struggle against "forgetting" - that sly accomplice of tyranny' Magda...

  To Bataan and Back: The World War II Diary of Major Thomas Dooley   By Jerry C. Cooper Hardcover264 Pages  November 2016   The Aggie tradition of Muster stretches back to the earliest days of the college. But an extraordinary...

  Tony's War: One soldier's Entire WWII Experiance Written s it was HappeningBy: Edward Anthony (Tony) Zahn) Paperback 282 Pages Decemeber 2019   Tony was an urbane, witty, college-educated Long Island boy whose WWII army career was recorded...

Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana Lawrence N. Powell Paperback 616 Pages 2002 This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into...

Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story By D.M. Giangreco Hardcover 280 pages August 1, 2023 Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman...

Truman David McCullough Paperback 1117 Pages 1992 The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and RedemptionBy: Laura HillenbrandHardcover496 Pages From Laura Hillenbrand, the bestselling author of Seabiscuit, comes Unbroken, the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of...

Valor, Guts, and Luck: A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II By: William L. Smallwood Hardcover 176 pages During the Second World War, a B-17 tailgunner had a one-in-four chance of survival during his standard twenty-five-mission...

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of Warby Michael NeufeldPaperback624 PagesNov 2008 Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von...

War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 Nigel Hamilton Hardcover 592 Pages 2019 Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had...

War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest GenerationBy: Cindy HvalHardcover216 Pages2015 America’s World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the...

Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 By: Carlo D'Este Hardcover 864 Pages Carlo D'Este's brilliant new biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord: a descendant of...

Wen Bon: A Naval Intelligence Officer Behind Japanese Lines in China in WWII by Bryon R Winborn (Author)Hardcover253 PagesNovember 1994 Winborn was a Naval lieutenant attached to the 14th Army Air Force to serve as a Technical Air Intelligence inspector...