European Theater

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...

September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far By: John C. McManus Paperback512 Pages2013 Acclaimed historian John C. McManus explores World War II's most ambitious invasion, Operation Market Garden, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi...

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...

Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces In The Second World War By Saul David Hardcover 576 pages 2024 From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. Sky Warriors tells the...

Smashing Hitler's Panzers: The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge by Steven ZalogaHardcover384 Pages2018 In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler’s elite...

Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45by Peter Caddick-AdamsHardcover928 Pages2014 Between December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, France, and...

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 By: Antony Beevor Paperback 560 Pages Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942,...

Stalingrad: Hitler's Biggest Gamble October 1942 (24 Hours)By: Will FowlerHardcover192 PagesMay 2020With firsthand accounts from both sides, vivid photographs, and specially commissioned maps of the combat zones, Stalingrad is a comprehensive...

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...

Sophie Scholl Fights Hitlers Regime (Taking a Stand)By: Clara MacCaraldPaperback48 Pages2019 Age Range: 8-12 YearsGrade Level: 4-6  Explores the history, events, and aftermath of Sophie Scholl's fight against Hitler's regime. Through insightful...

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 Allies Strike Back: 1941-1943by James HollandPaperback720 Pages2017 By June 1941, Germany’s war machine looked to be unstoppable. The Nazi blitzkrieg had taken Poland, France, and Holland with shocking speed. The Luftwaffe had bombed London,...

The Ardennes Battlefields: December 1944–January 1945by Simon Forty and Leo MarriottHardcover192 Pages2017 Just after its seventieth anniversary, the Battle of the Bulge has lost none of its impact. The largest battle fought by US troops on the...

The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945 (Images of War)By: Anthony Tucker - JonesPaperback128 Pages2019 Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three parachute drops and one armored charge. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder...

The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940 James Holland Paperback 736 Pages 2012 'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer of 1940. He was right. "The...

The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrificeby Alex KershawPaperback328 Pages June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia - population just 3,000 in 1944 - died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of...

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europeby William I. HitchcockHardcover464 Pages2008 A revisionist account of the liberation of Europe in World War II from the perspectives of Europeans offers insight into the more...

The Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulgeby John S.D. EisenhowerPaperback520 Pages1995 It was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever fought. More than a million GIs were involved and nearly 80,000 became casualties. The Allied generals had to...

The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 By: Michael NeibergHardcover352 Pages2012As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe—sites like Warsaw, Antwerp,...

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 Dead and Those About to Die D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach by John C. McManusPaperback384 pages Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and...

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 Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II Alex Kershaw Paperback 336 Pages 2011 In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to...

he Fall of TBerlin 1945 By: Antony Beevor Paperback 528 Pages By December 1944, many of the 3 million citizens of Berlin had stopped giving the Nazi salute, and jokes circulated that the most practical Christmas gift of the season was a coffin...

The Flying Greek: An Immigrant Fighter Ace's WWII Odyssey with the RAF, USAAF, and French Resistance By: Col. Steve N. Pisanos USAF (Ret.)Hardcover280 Pages Steve N. Pisanos’s The Flying Greek is both the classic tale of an immigrant’s bond...

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 Germans in NormandyBy: Richard HargreavesPaperback288 Pages2019The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded from the attackers' point of view whereas the...

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 Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of DachauBy: Alex KershawPaperback448 Pages2013 The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield...

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoonby Alex KershawPaperback344 Pages On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th...

The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II By: Denise George and Robert Child Hardcover 416 Pages Nearly forgotten by history, this is the story of the Wereth Eleven, African-American soldiers...

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 Monuments Men: Allied Heros, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History By: Robert M. Edsel Hardcover 496 Pages At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and...

The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Naziby Neal BascombHardcover256 Pages2013 A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. In 1945, at the end of...

The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War IIby Douglas PorchPaperback816 Pages The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale...

The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 By Prit Buttar Paperback 496 pages This book tells the detailed and engrossing account of the fighting in Ukraine in 1944, making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers...

The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West, Volume One James Holland Paperback 720 Pages 2016 The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly...

The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944by Jonathan Vance Paperback392 Pages2019 'It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of...

The USAAF in Suffolk Alex Kershaw Hardcover 224 Pages 2016 The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive in 1942, there were over 10,000 in the...

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 Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Neal BascombPaperback416 PagesMay 2017From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, a World War II spy adventure...

Hitler's Wolfsschanze: The Wolf's Lair Headquarters on the Eastern Front - An Illustrated Guideby John GrehanHardcover320 PagesOctober 2021 Set deep in the heart of the Masurian woods of northern Poland, in what was formally East Prussia, lies a vast...

To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42 By Prit Buttar Hardcover 464 pages September 12, 2023 A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source...

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England By: Lynne Olson Paperback 448 Pages 2008 A riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on...

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...

Voices from D-Dayby Jonathan Bastable Paperback312 Pages2018 D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history. This was the great turning point of the Second World War, when the largest armada ever assembled took a third of a million Allied men...

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...

Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City by Alexandra RichiePaperback704 Pages2014 The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for...

The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 By: Stephen Ambrose Paperback 299 Pages 2002 Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous...

With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain Michael Korda Paperback 364 Pages 2010 The Battle of Britain has become as much myth as history. Korda (Ulysses S. Grant), former editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, gives its...

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...