Saving Private Ryan BluRayFormat: MultiRunning Time: 169 minutesRated R 2010 Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings...

Schindler's List Thomas Keneally Paperback 400 Pages 1993 The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for the classic film—“a masterful...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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 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 Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945By: Richard OveryPaperback592 pagesTechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United...

The Cake Tree in the Ruins (Pushkin Collection)by Akiyuki Nosaka (Author) Translated by Ginny Tapley TakemoriPaperback160 pagesDecember 2018Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children...

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 End: The Defiance And Destruction Of Hitler's Germany, 1944 1945 Ian Kershaw Paperback 2012 Examines why the Third Reich resisted surrender for months after it had clearly lost World War II, drawing on testimony from civilians and former...

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 Fire and the Darkness by Sinclair McKay presents a harrowing and human account of the Allied bombing of Dresden. McKay weaves survivor testimonies, military records, and historical context into a compelling narrative of destruction, loss, and...