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Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943by Keith LowePaperbackApril 2009448 PagesIn the summer of 1943, British and American bombers launched an attack on the German city of Hamburg that was unlike anything the world had ever seen. For ten days...

Into the Dark Water: The Story of Three Officers and PT-109 by John J. DomagalskiPaperback288 Pages2019 Made famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. However, a full...

Into the Dark Water: The Story of Three Officers and PT-109by John J. DomagalskiHardcover288 pagesMade famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. However, a full chronicle...

Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 by John C. McManusHardback656 pages2021 In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's...

Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sunby John PradosPaperback432 Pages2013 The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny,...

Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific By: R.V. Burgin, William Marvel, Bill Marvel Paperback 304 Pages R.V. Burgin enlisted at the tender age of twenty, and with his smarts and hard work, climbed the ranks to sergeant. This...

Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World Warby Ethan MarkPaperback368 Pages2018 Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese...

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...

Japanese Combined Fleet 1942–43: Guadalcanal to the Solomons Campaign By Mark E. Stille Paperback 80 pages A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it...

Justice in Asia and The Pacific Region, 1945-1952: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions by Yuma TotaniPaperbackFebruary 2015 This book explores a cross section of war crimes trials that the Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World War...

Kamikaze: Japan's Last Bid for VictoryAdrian Stewart Hardcover224 Pages2020 In this fascinating book, the author examines the Japanese concept of Kamikaze, the deliberate self-sacrifice of life in the cause of victory. This attitude, while...

Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944by Peter Margaritis Hardcover208 Pages2018 On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu,...

Last Hope Islandby Lynne OlsonPaperback576 Pages2017 A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times...

Left for Dead at Nijmegen: The True Story of an American Paratrooper in World War IIby Marcus A. NanniniHardcover256 Pages2019 Left for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the...

Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle By Mark E Stille Hardcover 320 pages A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire...

Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruckby Peter HopePaperback304 PagesAugust 2019British-Born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has...

Loss and Redemption at St. Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge By Greg Fontenot Paperback 380 pages October 1, 2020 Loss and Redemption at St Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits...

  MacArthur's Spies: The Soldiers, the Singers, and the Spymasters Who Defied the Japanese in World War II Paperback368 pagesby Peter Eisner   "MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and...

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,...

Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific by Trent HoneHardcover448 pagesSeptember 2022 Mastering the Art of Command is a detailed examination of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz‘s leadership during World War II...

Masters of the Air: American's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald MillerPaperback688 PagesSeptember 2007 The inspiration for the major Apple TV+ series, streaming now!The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in...

Masters of The Air - Special Edition AudioBook by Donald MillerNarrated by Joe BarrettLength: 24 Hours and 19 MinutesNovember 2023MP3 CD Format Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of...

Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43 By Prit Buttar Hardcover 464 pages October 25, 2022 An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German...

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...

Michelin Battle of Provence Map Historic WWII reproduction map. A detailed map of the Provence area of France, showing the main sites of the late summer 1944 battle. This map is an antique-feeling reproduction of the map originally published by...

My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Memories of War) By: Lester Tenney Paperback220 Pages Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half...

The Nazis Huntersby Andrew NagorskiPaperback432 Pages2017 More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close. Their saga is finally told in this “deep and sweeping account of a...

New Perspectives on Austrians and World War IIby Gunter Bischof, Fritz Plasser and Barbara Stelzl-MarxPaperback375 Pages For more than a generation after World War II, many Austrians insisted that Austria was a victim of Nazi aggression in 1938 and...

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. SymondsHardcoverJune 2022From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War...

No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne By: Leo Barron, Don Cygan Paperback 432 pages As the Battle of the Bulge raged, a small force of American solders—including the famed 101st Airborne division, tank destroyer crews, engineers, and...

Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II By: Robert Leckie Paperback 224 Pages Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian,...

Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II from Guadalcanal to Peleliuby Amy Rupertus Peacock and Don BrownHardcover448 PagesFeb 2022 Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known...

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   Adrian Lewis presents a critical analysis of the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach, exploring the mistakes, miscalculations, and heroism that shaped this historic battle. Omaha Beach:...

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...

On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942–March 1943 By Prit Buttar Paperback 464 pages From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the German resurgence after the battle of Stalingrad. Containing...

Once There Was a War (Penguin Classic Edition) by John SteinbeckPaperback187 Pages“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald...

One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by: John Wukovits paperback 352 pages 2007 The riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Marines fought the Japanese nearly to the last man. In...

Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II  By: Mark HastingsHardcover400 Pages2020   One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring...

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Chrisopher R. BrowningPaperback384 PagesFebruary 2017 “A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book.....

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...

Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island By: John Wukovits Paperback 336 pages 2004 It happened in the shadow of Pearl Harbor-mere hours after the first attack on the day that would "live in infamy." But few know the full story of Wake Island...

Pacific Blitzkreig: World War II in the Central Pacificby Sharon Tosi LaceyPaperback270 Pages2013 Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific...

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942Ian W. TollHardcover640 Pages2011 On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months...

Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway by Stephen L. Moore Paperback448 Pages2015 Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS...

Panzer Operations by Hermann HothHardcover256 Pages2015This book, originally published in German in 1956, has now been translated into English, unveiling a wealth of both experiences and analysis about Operation Barbarossa, perhaps the most...

Paris '44: The City of Light Redeemedby William Mortimer MooreHardcover486 Pages2015 During the fall of 1944, once the Western Allies had gained military advantage over the Nazis, the crown jewel of Allied strategy became the liberation of Paris-the...

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...

Patton's Fighting Bridge Builders: Company B, 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment by Joseph C. Fitzharris Hardcover256 PagesDecember 2006These words may seem to have been written by an advance infantry unit or a combat brigade, carrying...

Patton's First Victory: How General George Patton Turned the Tide in North Africa and Defeated the Afrika Korps at El Guettarby Leo BarronHardcover312 Pages2017 American troops invaded North Africa in November 1942, but did not face serious resistance...

Prisoner of the Rising Sun: The Lost Diary of Brigadier General Lewis Beebe by: Brigadier General Lewis BeebeHardcover266 Pages A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, Prisoner of...

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...

Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. ScottHardcover640 Pages2018 The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific. Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated...

Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germanyby Nathan StoltzfusPaperback388 Pages2021 In February 1943 the Gestapo arrested approximately 10,000 Jews remaining in Berlin. Most died at Auschwitz. Two thousand of...

Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945by Richard Overy Paperback432 Pages1998 The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history and that cost the lives of more...

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...

  Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell   by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes (Editor) Hardcover224 PagesJanuary 2004   Battle diaries are essential for understanding what generals are...

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of MidwayBy: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony TullyPaperback640 Pages Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is, without question, one of the most famous battles 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...

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...

Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–1941 (War in the Far East)by Peter Harmsen Hardcover288 Pages2018 War in the Far East is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative...

Strategy in Crisis: The Pacific War, 1937-1945 By John KuehnHardcover240 Pages2023 The Pacific War (1937-1945) remains a crucial topic for strategic discussion, especially as Japan's push for a broader conflict in 1941 still fascinates historians. That...

Strong Men ArmedBy: Robert LeckiePaperback561 Pages2010 This powerful memoir written by a decorated World War II veteran retells the tumultuous stories of personal struggles and the impact of a chaotic world, told "with that truth recognizable to every...

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...

Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on TarawaOscar E. Gilbert and Romain CansiereHardcover364 Pages20156 x 9 inches In May 1943 a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new Marine Corps company...

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...

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermathby Michael Norman and Elizabeth NormanPaperback488 Pages2010 For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first major land battle...

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 Battle of Guadalcanal: Naval History Special Edition by Trent HonePaperback120 PagesMay 2022Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer studies of...

The Battle of Iwo Jima: Raising the Flag, February-March 1945by Marc Khan Hardcover160 Pages2018 Just eight square miles in size, the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies some 750 miles due south of Tokyo. Following a preparatory air and naval bombardment...

The Battle of Midway By: Craig L. Symonds Hardcover 464 Pages There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese...

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 Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Malcolm GladwellHardback256 Pages2021 An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of warA New York Times Book Review Editors’...

The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japanby Stephen HardingHardcover320 Pages2016 In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her...

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 (Pacific War Trilogy, 2) by Ian TollPaperback688 PagesSeptember 2016 A New York Times Bestseller"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the...

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 Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan   By: Sam Kleiner PaperbackMay 2019 304 Pages   The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the...

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 Gilbert and Ellice Islands - Pacific War (Images of War)by Jim MoranPaperback176 Pages2019 This Images of War book covers the dramatic events that befell both the Gilbert and Ellice Pacific island groups using a wealth of well-captioned photos and...

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...