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A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War by Randy Roberts Paperback304 Pages2012 "A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real...

American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World Warby Duncan Ryuken WilliamsHardcover400 Pages2019 This groundbreaking history tells the little-known story of how, in one of our country’s darkest hours, Japanese Americans fought to...

Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War IIBy: Jerry E. StrahanPaperback382 Pages Allied commander-in-chief Dwight Eisenhower called him "the man who won the war for us". Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II is the...

A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America by Susan DunnPaperback264 pages2019 One hundred days that set the stage for the American CenturyIn the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November...

The Enemy Within Never Did Without: German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945 by Jeffery L. LittlejohnPaperback232 PagesMay 2015 Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during...

Eeryday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogsby JoAnne OlianPaperback128 Pages1992 Few publications illustrate so comprehensively what American men, women, and children wore in the 1940s than the Sears catalogs of those years, when the...

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945by David KennedyHardcover270 Pages2001 Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the...

Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War IIArthur HermanPaperback432 Pages2013 Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of...

Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda by James J. KimbleHardcover236 PagesMay 2006 Kimble examines the U.S. Treasury’s eight war bond drives that raised over $185 billion—the largest single domestic propaganda campaign...

Rosie's Riveting Recipes: Cooking, Cocktails, and Kitchen Tips from 1940s America By: Daniela Turudich Paperback 288 Pages From an era when American women pulled up their trousers, slipped on their gloves, and stepped up to the plate comes this...

The 1942 Sears Christmas Book Sears Roebuck and Co (Author) Ben B. Judd Jr.(Introduction) Paperback 224 Pages 2019 For generations, the much-anticipated arrival of the Sears gift catalog signaled the start of the holiday season. This faithful...

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War IIby Denise KiernanPaperback400 pages2013 At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City...

The US Home Front During World War II by Ryan GaleHardcover48 PagesAugust 2022Ages: 10-15 yearsGrades: 5-9 This book describes the ways that World War II affected production and daily life in the United States, as well as government programs for...

The War Bride's Scrapbook: A Novel in PicturesCaroline PrestonHardcover224 Pages2017 A World War II love story, narrated through a new bride’s dazzling array of vintage postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, and more. Lila Jerome has never...

Vintage Wedding: Simple Ideas for Creating a Romantic Vintage Wedding (Vintage Living) by Daniela TurudichPaperback176 Pages2013 Returning to print in an expanded edition, this informative guide to planning a period wedding provides brides and wedding...

WWII Bakelite Jewelry: Love and Victory By: Bambi Deville Engeran Hardcover 112 Pages 1940s Bakelite jewelry helps to document the efforts of patriots in the USA and by their allies to restore world peace. Nearly 200 images of pins, necklaces,...