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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...

The Footsteps of Anne Frank By: Ernst Schnabel Paperback 192 Pages 2015 Ernst Schnabel interviewed 42 of the people mentioned by Anne Frank in her diary, including her father, other family members, and close relatives and friends, in order to...

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 Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust By: Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland Desaix Hardcover 40 Pages Age Range: 8 and up Grade Level: 3 and up When the Nazis occupied Paris, no Jew was safe from...

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 Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of the America's Deal with the Devil (World War II Collection) by Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery and Keith ChesterPaperback396 PagesSeptember, 2021He's the Worst Nazi War Criminal You've Never Heard OfHe was among the worst of...

The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World WarMartin GilbertPaperback976 pages1987 Deftly weaving together historical research and survivors' testimonies, The Holcaust is Gilbert's acclaimed and definitive history of the...

The Holocaust: History and Memory by Jeremy BlackPaperback320 PagesAugust 2016 Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been...

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 Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadtby: Anna HajkovaPaperback376 PagesOctober 2023Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a...

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 Life of Anne FrankBy: Kay WoodwardHardback48 PagesAges: 9-14Grade: 4-122020 Produced in association with the Anne Frank House. A compelling visual account of how a Jewish family tried to escape Nazism. In August 1944, Anne Frank and her family were...

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 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 Nazi and the PsychiatristBy: Jack El-HaiPaperback305 Pages2014In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and...

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...

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 Orgins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by: Henry FriedlanderPaperback448 PagesSeptember 1997Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly...

The Orgin of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Comprehensive History of the Holocaust) by Christopher BrowningPaperback616 PagesMay 2017 Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad...

The Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal By: Jay Wertz Hardcover A Unique Collection of Eyewitness Accounts A Lasting Tribute to the Veterans in Their Own Words The Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, the first in the planned 10-volume...

  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 Phenomenon of Anne Frank  by David Barnouw, Jeannetter K. Ringold (Translator)Paperback141 pagesFebruary, 2018 “Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer...

The Pink Triangle Richard PlantPaperback272 Pages1988 This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign...

The Third Reich at War Richard J. Evans Paperback 944 Pages 2010 Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a...

The Third Reich in History and Memory Richard J. Evans Hardcover 496 Pages 2015 In the seventy years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In...

The Third Reich in Power Richard J. Evans Paperback 960 Pages 2006 This magnificent second volume of Richard J. Evans's three-volume history of Nazi Germany was hailed by Benjamin Schwartz of the Atlantic Monthly as "the definitive...

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 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...

  Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination By Saul FriedlanderPaperback 896 pages 2008   The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon...

Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana Lawrence N. Powell Paperback 616 Pages 2002 This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into...

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima Martha MacCallum Hardcover 336 pages In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II, the popular primetime Fox News...

Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies) Samuel D. Kassow Hardcover 580 Pages 2018 In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum...

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...