D-Day

7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day: Lessons from the Longest Day - June 6, 1944 John Antal Hardcover 224 Pages 2017 The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who...

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...

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...

Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval LifeThomas Alexander HughesHardcover544 Pages2016 William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder...

Advocating Overlord: The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb Philip Padgett Hardcover 416 Pages 2018 “Well there it is. It won’t work, but you must bloody well make it,” said the chief of Britain’s military leaders, when he gave orders to begin...

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...

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943By: Rick AtkinsonHardcover681 Pages In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WWII, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North...

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...

Battle Briefings: D-Day and the Normandy Campaignby David Reisch Paperback128 Pages2018 Stackpole’s Battle Briefings series offers accessible and insightful summaries of battles, commanders, and other military history topics. This inaugural...

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...

Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against Franceby Stephen Alan Bourque Hardcover376 Pages2018 An important rethinking of the Normandy war narrative Beyond the Beach examines the Allied air war against France in 1944. During this period, General Dwight...

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...

Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story by William GuarnerePaperback320 Pages2008 Tom Hanks introduces the “remarkable” (Publishers Weekly) true story of two inseparable...

D-Day Landings: Pegasus The Red Devils in Normandy By: Lloyd Clark Paperback 192 Pages The strengths, weaknesses, and sheer drama of airborne warfare are all encapsulated in the 6th Airborne Division's attacks on Pegasus Bridge and the Merville...

D-Day 1944 (4)Ken Ford,authorKevin Lyles, illustratorPaperback96 Pages2002 Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history. At the heart of the invasion and key to its success were the...

D-Day 1944: The Making of Victory Anthony Tucker-Jones Hardcover 304 Pages 2019 Two years earlier the Dieppe Raid had ended in disaster – despite their meticulous planning the Allies feared Operation Overlord might go the same way. Instead D-Day...

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabatoged the Nazis, and helped Win World War IIby Sarah Rosehardcover400 pages2019 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain’s elite...

D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration By: John BuckleyHardcover320 pages Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944 has come to stand as something more...

D-Day in Photographsby Andrew WhitmarshPaperback120 PagesOctober, 2012 This visual history collates images relating to all aspects of D-day and the Normandy landings. Beginning with the lead up to D-day, it encompasses the equipment, planning, troops,...

D-Day: The Campaign Across France By: Jay Wetz Hardcover 304 Pages A Unique Collection of Firsthand Accounts in Their Own Words A Lasting Tribute to the Veterans as Only They Could Tell It D-Day: The Campaign Across France, the second...

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...

D-Day to Berlin: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944-45 Stackpole Military History SeriesBy: Alan J. LevinePaperback240 Pages •Concise history of the Allied campaign to liberate Northwest Europe during World War II•Places the campaign in the...

D-Day Training Pocket ManualBy: Chris McNabHardcover160 Pages2019 The success of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944 depended on thousands of troops carrying out their mission and the seamless coordination of the amphibious landings with paratrooper and...

D-Day Illustrated Edition: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War IIBy: Stephen AmbroseHardcover768 pages10.9 X 8.8 X 2.3 inchesNow illustrated with an extraordinary collection of over 125 photos, Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day is the definitive...

D-Day Survivor: An Autobiography By: Harold Baumgarten Hardcover 256 Pages It was the bravery and heroism of the 116th Infantry that began one of the longest days of combat in American war history. In the face of heavy fire and despite...

"Destination Normandy" Destination Normandy follows the men of three American regiments in D-Day, June 6, 1944. G.H. Bennett follows the 507th Parachute Infantry of the famed 82nd Airborne Division as they stop the advances of an SS division. He...

Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Patrick K. O'Donnell Paperback 305 Pages 2013 An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the...

Drawing D-Day: An Artist's Journey Through War Ugo Giannini Hardcover 192 Pages 2019 Drawing D-Day: An Artist's Journey Through War offers an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind testimony in words and images by a soldier and artist who participated in...

Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at Warby Ray Lambert, Jim DeFeliceHardcover320 Pages2019 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day—read the...

  Every Man A Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World WarBy: Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelicePaperback320 Pages2019 Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day—read the...

Everything We HaveDr. Gordon H. "Nick" MuellerHardcover256 Pages2019 June 6, 1944 will be a day forever remembered as the largest naval, air, and land operation in history: D-Day. An estimated 160,000 troops landed by sea and air, with nearly 20,000...

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...

If Chaos Reigns - The near-Disaster and Ultimate Triumph of the Allied Airborne Forces on D-Day, June 6, 1944By: Flint WhitlockPaperback352 PagesJune 2011“Gentlemen, do not be daunted if chaos reigns; it undoubtedly will.” So said Brigadier S...

In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth Larry Alexander Paperback 336 Pages 2011 The paratroopers of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, have come to symbolize the incredible...

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...

Le Havre to Cherbourg Map Normandy at D-Day 1944 The largest amphibious landing in military history involving United States, British, Canadian, Polish, and Free French forces. This operation helped pave the way for ending Hitler's thousand year Reich...

Major and Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches: 75th Anniversary Edition with GPS ReferencesBy: Valamai Holt and Tonie HoltPaperback350 Pages2019 Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area,...

Michelin Battle of Normandy Beach Map Historic WWII reproduction map. A detailed map of Normandy at a scale of 1:200,000 showing the main sites of the summer 1944 battle. This map is an antique-feeling reproduction of the map originally published by...

Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landingsby Craig L. SymondsHardcover440 Pages Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the...

Normandy 1944 Georges Bernage Paperback 224 Pages 2018 This book is the fruit of forty years of contact with military and civilian witnesses, now almost all gone, of research, analyses and descriptions of several thousands of photographs about...

The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day and the Bridgehead By: Leo Marriott and Simon Forty Hardcover 224 pages With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitler's...

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...

Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory Adrian R. LewisPaperback400 Pages2003 The Allied victory at Omaha Beach was a costly one. A direct infantry assault against a defense that was years in the making, undertaken in daylight following a mere thirty-minute...

Omaha Beach Field Guide By: General Theodore G. Shuey Paperback 80 pages Finally, a field guide to this iconic and tragic beach. No one better than General Shuey could have written this work. A young officer when he served under the command of Omaha...

Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944 By: Joseph Balkoski Paperback 432 Pages In this unforgettable narrative of D-Day, Joseph Balkoski describes the minute-by-minute combat as it unfolded on Omaha Beach, allowing soldiers to speak for themselves as...

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...

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...

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...

Sainte Mere Eglise: First American Bridgehead in France June 6 1944 By: Alexandre RenaudPaperback140 Pages19869½ x 7 inches On June 5 & 6, 1944, Alexandre Renaud, then mayor of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, saw the first paratroopers land in...

Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Parisby John KeeganPaperback416 Pages1994 Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s investigation into World War II and the Normandy Invasion The armies of six nations met on the battlefields...

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...

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 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 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 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 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 Longest Day Cornelius Ryan Paperback 256 pages The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this...

The Normandy BattlefieldsBocage and Breakout: From the Beaches to the Falaise Gap Leo Marriott and Simon Forty Hardcover 192 Pages 2017 The Normandy Battlefields details what can be seen on the ground today using a mixture of media to provide a...

  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 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...

World War II Illustrated Atlas: Campagins, Battles & Weapons From 1939 - 1945 by David Johnson and Andrew WiestHardcover256 PagesFebruary, 2019 From two military experts comes an outstanding and comprehensive one-volume visual guide to the complex...