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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...

A Picture Book of Anne Frankby David A. AdlerIllustrated by: Karen RitzPaperback32 PagesAge Range: 6 and upGrade Level: 1 and up A chronicle of the life of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, who kept a diary during her family's attempts to hide from the...

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...

Anatomy of A Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Omer BartovPaperback416 Pages2019 Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Book Prize for Holocaust Research“A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and...

An Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank FamilyBy: Miep Gies and Alison Leslie GoldPaperback272 Pages2009 For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis's own...

Anne Frank's Family: The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos By: Mirjam Pressler (Author) and Damion Searls (Translator) Paperback 432 Pages This fascinating history of...

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...

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor By: Gordon W. Prange Paperback 912 Pages At 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S...

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...

Behind Barbed Wire: A History of Concentration Camps from the Reconcentrados to the Nazi System 1896 - 1945 by Deborah G. LindsayPaperback396 PagesMarch 2020 Most people associate concentration camps with Nazi Germany. Behind Barbed Wire examines how...

Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place by Barbara Lowell (Author) and Valentina Toro (Illustrator)Paperback40 PagesSeptember 2020Ages: 7-11 YearsGrade: 2-5 Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies...

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...

Children in the Holocaust (Focus Readers: Children in History: Voyager Level)By: Samantha S. BellPaperback48 Pages2018 Age Range: 9-14 YearsGrade Level: 5-6 Presents true accounts of children who lived during the Holocaust. Personal narratives,...

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...

The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II (Yong Readers Edition) by Emil Sher (Adapter), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback224 PagesAges 8-12March 28, 2017A young...

Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie CenziperHardcover320 Pages2019 The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing...

Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath Paperback348 Pages2003 Edited by Joshua D. ZimmermanContributors: Zvi Gitelman, Nechama Tec, Israel Gutman, John Pawlikowski, Daniel Blatman, Ben-Cion...

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...

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...

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...

Deception: How the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europe Christopher Hale Hardcover 448 pages 2019 "I suppose you know who I am? I was in charge of the actions in Germany and Poland and Czechoslovakia. I am prepared to sell you one million Jews:...

"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...

Fight for Survival: The Story of the Holocaust (Tangled History)by Jessica FreeburgPaperback112 Pages2016Age Range: 8 - 14Grade Level: 3 - 4 In an immersive, exciting narrative nonfiction format, this powerful book follows a selection of people who...

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...

Germany's War & The Holocaust: Disputed Histories by Omer BartovPaperback272 Pages2003 "While attempts to come to terms with past catastrophe... can help prevent its recurrence, they may also provide arguments for... actions against the real or...

Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 By John C McManus Paperback 208 pages The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. On April 4,...

Hold On To Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Laneby Emil Sher (adapter), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator)40 PagesPaperbackAges 4-8January 12, 2021Discover the inspiring illustrated...

Honey Cakes & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Aushwitz-Birkenau Survivorsby Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial FoundationHardcover256 PagesSeptember 2022 More than a cookbook, this collection of heirloom recipes conveys Auschwitz-Birkenau...

How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the Holocaust: Tragedy at Evianby Tony MatthewsHardcover480 PagesDecember 2021 In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at...

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,...

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...

Interrogations: The Nazis Elite in Allied Hands, 1945by Richard OveryPaperback672 Pages2002 While the trial of Hitler's fallen elite at Nuremberg has been thoroughly documented, the interval between the Nazis' capture in May and June 1945 and the start...

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...

Lisa of Willesdan Lane: A True Story of Music and Survival During World War IIby Sarah J. Robbins (Adaptor), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback176 PagesAges 6-10January 12, 2021 An inspiring true story about one girl's escape from the...

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,...

Man's Search For MeaningBy: Viktor E. FranklPaperback192 Pages Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl...

Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glaneby Sarah FarmerPaperback300 Pages1999 Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of...

McElfresh Pearl Harbor 1941 Map A detailed map of the US bases bombed at Pearl Harbor, including Ford Island, Hickam Army Air Base, Wheeler Field, the U.S. Marine Air Base at Ewa, Bellows Field, Fort Kamehameha, Aliamanu Crater, Fort Shafter,...

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...

My Paintings, My Memories, My Message... Hanka Kornfeld-Marder Paperback 26 Pages 2010 By viewing this Holocaust Remembrance Book of Paintings and sharing it with relatives and friends, you are showing your commitment to remember the innocent...

My Pearl Harbor Scrapbook 1941: A Nostalgic Collection of Memories By: Bess Taubman Hardcover 87 pages Through the "look and feel" of a WWII period scrapbook, each two-page spread illuminates a specific aspect of the Pearl Harbor story with the use...

Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The years of Persection 1933-1939By: Saul FriendlanderPaperback464 pagesMarch 1998 A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How...

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...

Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaustby Milton MeltzerPaperback240 PagesSeptember 1991Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inchesAge Range: 8-12 yearsGrade Level: 8-9 Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe...

Night: Memorial EditionHardcoverBy: Elie Wiesel158 Pages2017 A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White...

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...

Nuremberg's Voice of  Doom: The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History's Greatest TrialsBy: Wolfe FrankEditor: Paul HooleyHardcover224 Pages2018 The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique...

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...

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...

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...

Pearl Harbor 1941: The Day of Infamy Carl Smith Paperback 96 Pages 2001 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II (1939-1945) - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged...

  Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to GreatnessBy: Craig NelsonPaperback544 Pages 2017 “A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of...

Pearl: December 7, 1941 By Daniel Allen ButlerHardcover360 PagesOctober, 2020 A new, readable account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened?The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare...

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...

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...

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...

Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor CampChristopher R. BrowningPaperback416 pagesProduct Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches In 1972 the Hamburg State Court acquitted Walter Becker, the German chief of police in the Polish city of...

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...

Scrimmage For War: A Story of Pearl Harbor, Football, and World War IIBill McWilliamsHardcover400 Pages2019 In late November 1941, two college football teams—Willamette University and San Jose State—set sail for Honolulu for a series of games...

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...

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the HolocaustBy: Michael GrenbaumPaperback384 PagesApril 2017Resilience shines throughout Michael Gruenbaum’s “riveting memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about his time in the...

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...

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolitte and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor By: James M. ScottHardcover672 Pages2015 In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors...

The Complete Maus By: Art Spiegelman Hardcover 295 Pages The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus...

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...

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 Day the Nazis Came: My Childhood Journey from Britain to a German Concentration Camp by Stephen R. Matthews (Author)  Hardcover229 PagesDecember 2016   By the time he was six years old, Stephen had been bombarded by 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 Diary of a Young Girl By: Anne Frank(Author), Otto H. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor), Susan Massotty (Translator), Francine Prose (Introduction) Hardcover 320 Pages The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a...