Biographies

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...

We Were Going to Win, Or Die There: With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipanby Roy H ElrodHardcover320 Pages2017 Winner, Colonel Joseph Alexander Award, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine...

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...

With the Old BreedE.B. SledgeOkinawa Paperback352 Pages2007 An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd...

Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line By: Celia Lee and Paul Strong Forward By: Gary Sheffield Paperback387 pages2012 The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of...

WOW!: Anthology of B-24 Ralph Walsh Paperback 2009 This excellent collection spans many segments of the air war during World War II. Packed with well over 160 short stories, this anthology collection is also well illustrated and is an excellent...

You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War By: Sid Phillips Paperback 260 Pages Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, AL, when he plunged into the jungles of Guadalcanal in August 1942. A mortarman...

Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 Janet Somerville Hardback528 Pages2019 Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today,...