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...

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 Greatet Generationby Tom BrokawHardcover464 Pages2004 Brokaw defines "the greatest generation" as American citizens who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. The vehicle used to define...

The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflectionsby Tom BrokawPaperback237 PagesJune 2001NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation...

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 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 Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the US Navy's Finest Hour By: James D. Hornfischer Paperback 499 Pages "This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will...

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoonby Alex KershawPaperback344 Pages On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th...

The Pacificby Hugh Ambrose Paperback528 Pages In this companion to the HBO® miniseries-executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman-Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier...

The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West, Volume One James Holland Paperback 720 Pages 2016 The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly...