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A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the BulgeCharles B. MacDonald Paperback720 Pages1997 On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and...

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by: Giles MacDonoghPaperback656 PagesFebruary 2009 The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World WarWhen the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a...

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 By: Max Hastings Paperback 584 Pages In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including...

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor By: Gordon W. Prange Paperback 912 Pages At 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S...

At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-1945 by Christian JenningsHardcover384 PagesMarch, 2016 Christian Jennings's At War on the Gothic Line tells the little-known story of the Allied effort to break the German defenses in Northern...

Band Of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose Hardcover 336 Pages On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the...

Band of Brothers Blu-ray Format: Widescreen Running Time: 705 minutes Not Rated 2008 Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose, the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st...

Band of Brothers DVDFormat: WidescreenRunning Time: 705 minutesNot Rated2002 Based on the bestselling book by Stephen E. Ambrose, the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne...

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nestby Stephen E AmbroseForeward by Tom HanksPaperback333 Pages2017 Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the...

Band of Brothers/The Pacific Blu-rayRunning Time: 1235 minutesNot Rated 2011 Band of Brothers- Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose, the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st...

Bataan Death March: A Soldier's Story by James BollichPaperback 224 PagesOctober 2003 "I salute the author for writing his story; doing so must have caused him many a restless night and not a few tears. He has served all his fellow POWs well by...

Battle for Britain DVD Run Time: 132 Minutes Rated G 2014 Featuring a "big stellar cast" (Variety), including Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Robert Shaw, Susannah York and Edward Fox, Battle...

Hitler's Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulgeby: Danny S. ParkerPaperback264 PagesAugust 2016 In this gripping, unusual volume, insight into the Battle of the Bulge is told through firsthand accounts by German officers. The...

Beyond Band of Brothersby Dick Winters and Cole C. KingseedHardcover320 Pages Signed by: Cole C. Kingseed They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while...

Black Snow - Curtis LeMay, and the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bombby James ScottHardcover432 PagesSeptember 2022 “Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against...

Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers Lt. Lynn Compton Paperback 304 Pages 2009 The national bestselling World War II memoir with a foreword by John McCain. As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt...

Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of GermanyBy: Stephen Ambrose Paperback 528 Pages In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 Bestseller D-Day...

Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barret Tillman (Author), Stephen Coonts (Foreword)Paperback384 pagesNovember, 2006From the national bestselling coauthor of Dragon's Jaw, here is the incredible true...

Conversations with Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers   by Cole C. KingseedPaperback320 Pages2015   On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company—the...

D-DAY: June 6, 1944 By: Stepen E. Ambrose Paperback 656 Pages Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in...

D-Day Illustrated Edition: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War IIBy: Stephen AmbroseHardcover768 pages10.9 X 8.8 X 2.3 inchesNow illustrated with an extraordinary collection of over 125 photos, Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day is the definitive...

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire By: Richard B. FrankPaperback496 Pages Downfall is an analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding of the American air campaign over Japan. The story opens with a searing description...

Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945by Frederick TaylorPaperback560 Pages2005 For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden -- a cultured city famous for its china, chocolate, and fine watches -- was militarily unjustifiable, an act...

Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbeby Stephen AmbrosePaperback122 PagesMay 2000 In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a major decision had to be made: where to draw a...

Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War IIby: David StaffordPaperback624 PagesFebruary 2009To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine...

Everything We HaveDr. Gordon H. "Nick" MuellerHardcover256 Pages2019 June 6, 1944 will be a day forever remembered as the largest naval, air, and land operation in history: D-Day. An estimated 160,000 troops landed by sea and air, with nearly 20,000...

Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 By: John C. McManusPaperbackAugust 2020640 Pages WINNER OF THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORYAn engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author...

Fire and Steel: The End of World War II in the West by: Peter Caddick AdamsHardcover688 PagesJuly 2022The final volume in one of the most acclaimed works of military history of this generation.Here is Peter Caddick-Adams' third volume in his trilogy...

Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima James Bradley Paperback 211 Pages 2003 New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military...

Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History By: Gerhard L. WeinbergPaperback360 Pages German-born historian Weinberg offers a new perspective on German history in relation to Hitler and the formulation of German foreign...

Guadalcanal Diary Richard Tregaskis Paperback 272 Pages 2000 This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general...

Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle By: Richard B. FrankPaperback816 Pages A history of the battle at Guadalcanal draws on first-time translations of official Japanese defense accounts and declassified U.S. radio intelligence to...

Hell from the Heavans: The Epic Story of the USS Laffrey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack John Wukovits paperback 336 pages 2016 Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force...

Hiroshimaby John HerseyPaperback208 PagesJune 2020Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single...

In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by: Erik LarsonPaperback448 PagesJanuary 2011Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story...

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...

Memphis Belle DVD 1990 Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The...

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...

Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landingsby Craig L. SymondsHardcover440 Pages Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the...

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,...

Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose Paperback 208 Pages In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe...

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...

Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor CampChristopher R. BrowningPaperback416 pagesProduct Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches In 1972 the Hamburg State Court acquitted Walter Becker, the German chief of police in the Polish city of...

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...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Pacific Blu-ray Format: Widescreen Running Time: 400 minutes Not Rated 2010 The Pacific is an epic 10-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S...

The Pacific DVD Format: Widescreen Running Time: 400 minutes Not Rated 2010 The Pacific DVD is an epic 10-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S...

The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War IIby Douglas PorchPaperback816 Pages The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale...

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...

The Story of World War II - Audiobook by Donald L. MillerNarrated by Michael KramerUnabridged, Run Time: 24 hrs, 52 minsAugust 2012MP3 CD FormatDrawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has...

The Story of World War II: Revised, Expanded, and Updated by Donald L. Miller and Henry Steele CommagerPaperback704 Pages Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling...

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...

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...

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...

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...