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The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 By: Geoffrey C.Ward and Ken Burns Paperback 480 Pages The War, companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS series, captures the American experience of World War II in the words and deeds, thoughts...

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...

Tower of Skulls  Richard B. Frank Hardcover 768 pages March, 2020 An eye-opening, pathbreaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal. In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the...

Twilight of The Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944 - 1945 (Vol. 3)(Pacific War Trilogy)Ian TollHardcover944 Pages2020 The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, “one of the great storytellers...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and RedemptionBy: Laura HillenbrandHardcover496 Pages From Laura Hillenbrand, the bestselling author of Seabiscuit, comes Unbroken, the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of...

Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II LeadersBy Gerhard L. WeinbergPaperback"Visions of Victory" explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de...

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of Warby Michael NeufeldPaperback624 PagesNov 2008 Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von...

In War Without Mercy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Dower explores the racial ideologies and propaganda that shaped the Pacific theater of World War II. This groundbreaking work reveals how deeply racism influenced military strategies, prisoner...

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...

When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us When World War IIBy: Molly Guptill ManningPaperback304 Pages2015 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Heartwarming.” — New York Times“Whether or not you’re a book lover,...

Why the Allies Wonby Richard OveryPaperback416 Pages1997 Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany doomed itself to defeat by fighting a two-front war; the Allies won by "sheer weight of material...

With the Old BreedE.B. SledgeOkinawa Paperback352 Pages2007 An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd...

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...