Biographies

A Flicker in Eternity: The Stanley Hayami Story Experience the powerful true story of Stanley Hayami, a Japanese American teenager whose dreams and resilience were tested during World War II. A Flicker in Eternity is a moving documentary based on...

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...

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.  

Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 By Robert Matzen Paperback 432 Pages 2017 This fresh look at Hollywood's "Queen of Screwball," Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight...

Dauntless: The 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments, United States Army By Marie S. Vallejo Paperback 762 pages Uncover the heroic stories of the 1st and 2nd Filipino Regiments in Dauntless by Marie Vallejo. This powerful narrative honors the...

Churchill Cold War Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain By Anthony Tucker-Jones Hardcover 224 pages Discover Winston Churchill's pivotal role in shaping post-WWII geopolitics in Churchill: Cold War Warrior by Anthony Tucker-Jones. This...

Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life James Scott Wheeler Hardcover 616 Pages 2015 General Jacob L. "Jake" Devers (1897–1979) was one of only two officers?the other was Omar C. Bradley?to command an army group during the decisive campaigns of...

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II  By Robert Matzen Paperback 404 pages Uncover the hidden history of Audrey Hepburn's harrowing experiences during World War II in Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen. This gripping biography details...

American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents - from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush Nigel Hamilton Paperback 576 Pages 2011 Eminent biographer Nigel Hamilton offers a group biography of the twelve caesars of our time: the American...

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...

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...

Angels Against the Sun: A WWII Saga of Grunts, Grit, and Brotherhood By James Fenelon Hardcover 512 pages In the tradition of Band of Brothers, historian and former paratrooper James M. Fenelon offers a grunt’s-eye view of the 11th...

Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Recipents of World War II by Robert ChildPaperback288 PagesJune 2023 The remarkable story of seven African-American soldiers denied the Medal of Honor for more than 50 years due to their race, and their...

Churchill The Life: An Authorized Pictorial Biographyby Max ArthurPaperbacK272 PagesSeptember 2018 The life and times of the great statesman as he saw it. "This beautifully produced volume brings Churchill vividly to life... The book richly reveals both...

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...

Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History  by: Kevin MaurerPaperback320 PagesApril 2023 From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day―comes...

Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War IIby: David StaffordPaperback624 PagesFebruary 2009To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine...

A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War IIby: Harry H. CrosbyPaperback348 PagesSeptember 2021 “A compelling account of the air war against Germany” written by the...

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,...

Battle of the Bulge (The Young Readers Adaptation)by Rick AtkinsonPaperback272 PagesAges 8-12June 2016 December 16, 1944. In the frozen forests of the Ardennes, a surprise attack by the German army on American Allied forces launched the long, hard slog...

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...

Architects of Air Power: General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the US Air Force (American Warriors Series)by Brian LaslieHardcover254 PagesOctober 2017At age 36, Laurence S. Kuter (1905–1979) became the youngest general officer since William T...

Fighting From Above - A Combat History of the US Air Force (The Ways of War Series)by Brian LasliePaperback270 PagesMarch 2024The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War—well...

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...

Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfareby Robert M. CitinoPaperback430 PagesMay, 2022 Winner: Paul Birdsall PrizeWinner: Society for Military History book AwardWhen Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it...

Aachen: The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War IIby Robert BaumerHardcover416 PagesJanuary 2015 By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the...

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...

Commander in Cheif: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War, 2) by Nigel HamiltonPaperback496 PagesMay 2017 From Nigel Hamilton's acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDR's yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the...

Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruckby Peter HopePaperback304 PagesAugust 2019British-Born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has...

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,...

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...

General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statemanby Ed CrayPaperback864 PagesFebruary 2020 As the U.S. Army's Chief of staff through World War II, George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented number...

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...

Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraftby Lewis E. LehrmanHardcover472 PagesJanuary 2017 During World War II the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won...

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...

Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love and Survival by Mona Golabek (Author), and Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback288 PagesNovember 1, 2003 Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the...

American Flygirl by Susan AnkenyHardcover272 PagesApril 23, 2024 One of WWII’s most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military...

D-Day The Invasion of Normandy, 1944by Rick AtkinsonPaperback240 PagesMay 5, 2015Ages 8-12 Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that...

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...

Brave Men (Penguin Classic Edition) by Ernie Pyle - Introduction by David ChrisingerPaperback544 PagesReissue May 30 2023 The classic, human-scale account of the soldiers who fought in World War II, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie...

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...

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...

Bataan Death March: A Soldier's Story by James BollichPaperback 224 PagesOctober 2003 "I salute the author for writing his story; doing so must have caused him many a restless night and not a few tears. He has served all his fellow POWs well by...

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...

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...

After Nuremberg: American Clememcy for Nazi War Criminals by Robert HutchinsonHardcover352 PagesOctober 2022 How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the...

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1884 - 1933 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback587 PagesMarch 1993 The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washington Post).Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933 - 1938 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback736 pagesJune 2000 The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).The captivating second...

Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War IIby Catherin MusemecheHardcoverAugust 2022320 pages "Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an...

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,...

Dauntless: Paul Hilliard in WWII and a Transformed America by Rob Citino with Ken Stickney and Lori OshsnerHardcover200 PagesDecember 2023 Dauntless is the story of Clayton Paul Hilliard, a poor farm boy from Wisconsin who enlisted in the US Marine...

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 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 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,...

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...

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...

FDRby Jean Edward SmithPaperback880 PagesMay 2008NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldOne of today’s premier...

Love, Abe: A Jewish GI’s World War II Letters Home By Bonnie Klapper Goldenberg Paperback356 Pages2022 The children of immigrants, Abraham “Abe” Klapper and Lillian Schein were newlyweds expecting their first child when Abe was inducted...

General Lesley J. McNair by Mark CalhounHardcover432 Pages2015 George C. Marshall once called him "the brains of the army." And yet General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944), a man so instrumental to America's military preparedness and Army modernization,...

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...

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 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...

An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawPaperback400 PagesApril 2002 “I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged...

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...

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...

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...

40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles by Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia KraackPaperback338 PagesAugust 2021 An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40...

Bob Hope: A Life In Comedyby William Robert Faith Paperback560 Pages2003 Reporter: "What's it like to be Bob Hope?"Hope: "I wouldn't have it any other way."From Bob Hope's early career as an upstart among professionals like Jack Benny and Milton Berle in...

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...

I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews by Rudolf VrbaPaperback480 Pages April 2020The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz SurvivorApril 7,...

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...

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...

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...

Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstokby Bram Vanderstok (Author), Simon Pearson (Foreword)Hardcover256 PagesApril 2019 "Quickly, I climbed up to the surface and immediately found...

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...

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...

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,...

A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South by Stephanie HinnershitzPaperback296 pages2020 In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those...

Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II by Stephanie D. HinnershitzHardback336 pages2021 Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from...

The Life and Work of Gunther Anders: Emigre, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Lettersby Gunter Bischof, Jason Dawsey and Bernhard FetzPaperback200 PagesSeptember 2015 This volume recovers and reintroduces the work of Gunther Anders (1902-1992), "the most...

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.....

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...

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...

A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us   by Marcus Brotherton Paperback368 Pages2020 THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONAfter the Band...

Conversations with Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers   by Cole C. KingseedPaperback320 Pages2015   On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company—the...

Hang Tough: The WWII Letters and Artifacts of Major Dick Winters   by Erik DorrHardcover304 Pages2020   The compelling WWII correspondence and artifacts of Major Dick Winters, commander of the Band of Brothers.Major Dick Winters of the 101st...

Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Don MalarkeyPaperback304 Pages2009 Elite paratrooper Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the World War II battles fought from Normandy to Germany,...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

Foo: A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun: The secret Prison Diary of Frank 'Foo' Fujita by: Frank FujitaPaperback392 PagesMarch 1993 These memoirs are unique because of the six thousand Japanese-Americans who saw military service in the war...

Blood on German Snow: An African American Artilleryman in World War II and Beyond By Emiel W. Owens (Author)Hardcover160 PagesAugust 2006 Emiel Owens served his country in the 777th Field Artillery, involved in actions from Omaha Beach to the occupation...

In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II by James M. Davis  Paperback 256 Pages September 2007   James “Jim” Davis lived what he considered “an impossible dream” as he piloted a B-24, as part 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...

  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...

  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...

  Heavy Date Over Germany: The Life and Times of B-17 Tail Gunner Ray Perry   By: Jewelle Jordan KuenstlerPaperback230 Pages December 2019   Ray Perry was a farm boy from rural West Texas when America entered World War II. He always had...

  How I Earned the Ruptured Duck: From Brooklyn to Berchtesgaden in World War II (Volume 92)   By: Leo Bogart  Hardcover168 Pages    Twenty years old when he entered the army in 1942, Leo Bogart was one of sixteen million...

Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 By: John C. McManusPaperbackAugust 2020640 Pages WINNER OF THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORYAn engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author...