General WWII History

Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism (Studies in Civil-Military Relations) by Cameron McCoyHardcover376 PagesNovember 2023 Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black...

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...

The Courageous Six Triple Eight: The All-Black Female Batallion of World War II (Women Warriors of World War II) by Dr. Tyner, Artika R. (Author) and Cynthia Paul (Illustrator) Paperback32 PagesJuly 2022Age: 8-12Grades: 3-4 When the United States...

Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II by: Jere B. FrancoHardcover232 PagesApril, 1999 “Crossing the Pond” is a term Native Americans used to describe the process of being transferred overseas for military duty. This...

Curious GeorgeBy H.A. and Margret ReyHardback64 PagesReading Range: 4-7 years old This treasured classic is where it all began for the curious, loveable monkey. Special anniversary cover with foil and spot gloss make this edition a must-have for any...

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabatoged the Nazis, and helped Win World War IIby Sarah Rosehardcover400 pages2019 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain’s elite...

D-Day in Photographsby Andrew WhitmarshPaperback120 PagesOctober, 2012 This visual history collates images relating to all aspects of D-day and the Normandy landings. Beginning with the lead up to D-day, it encompasses the equipment, planning, troops,...

D-Day Landings: The Story of the Allied Invasion By: Richard Platt Paperback 32 Pages Recommended Age Group: 8 and up How did the Allies plan and execute the most massive and daring invasion in military history? Read all about it in the DK Reader...

D-Day The Invasion of Normandy, 1944by Rick AtkinsonPaperback240 PagesMay 5, 2015Ages 8-12 Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that...

D-Day to Berlin: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944-45 Stackpole Military History SeriesBy: Alan J. LevinePaperback240 Pages •Concise history of the Allied campaign to liberate Northwest Europe during World War II•Places the campaign in the...

Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History  by: Kevin MaurerPaperback320 PagesApril 2023 From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day―comes...

Dateline - Liberated Paris: The Hotel Scribe and the Invasion of the PressBy: Ronald WeberHardcover232 Pages2019 Vividly capturing the heady times in the waning months of World War II, Ronald Weber follows the exploits of Allied reporters as they flooded...

Dauntless: Paul Hilliard in WWII and a Transformed America by Rob Citino with Ken Stickney and Lori OshsnerHardcover200 PagesDecember 2023 Dauntless is the story of Clayton Paul Hilliard, a poor farm boy from Wisconsin who enlisted in the US Marine...

Dauntless: The 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments, United States Army By Marie S. Vallejo Paperback 762 pages Uncover the heroic stories of the 1st and 2nd Filipino Regiments in Dauntless by Marie Vallejo. This powerful narrative honors the...

Day of Infamy: The Story of the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Tangled History)By: Steven Otfinoski (Author)Paperback112 Pages2015Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 inchesAge Range: 8 - 14 yearsGrade Level: 3 - 4 The quiet Sunday morning was shattered as...

D-Day Survivor: An Autobiography By: Harold Baumgarten Hardcover 256 Pages It was the bravery and heroism of the 116th Infantry that began one of the longest days of combat in American war history. In the face of heavy fire and despite...

Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II by John C. McManusPaperback476 Pages2016 This insightful chronicle takes readers inside the experiences of America’s fighter pilots and bomber crews, an incredible assortment of men who, in...

Dear Bob: Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War IIBy Martha Bolton and Linda HopeHardcover 256 Pages March, 2021   For five decades, comedian, actor, singer, dancer, and entertainer Bob Hope (1903–2003) traveled the...

Deception: How the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europe Christopher Hale Hardcover 448 pages 2019 "I suppose you know who I am? I was in charge of the actions in Germany and Poland and Czechoslovakia. I am prepared to sell you one million Jews:...

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II By: Louis Zamperini Paperback 292 Pages 2011 The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken...

Divisions: A New History of Racisim and Resistance in America's World War II Military by Thomas GuglielmoHardcoverOctober, 2021528 PagesThe first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it.America's...

Don't Know Much About American Historyby Kenneth C. Davis (Author) and Matt Faulkner (Illustrator)Paperback224 Pages2003Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.56 x 9 inchesReading Age: 8-12 yearsGrade Level: 3-7 Was Columbus the first European in the Americas? What...

  Dorie Miller: Greatness Under FireMr. Dante R. Brizill Paperback64 PagesNovember 2018   The story of December 7th, 1941 is very familiar to us. It changed the history of this country and the world, but few people may know of the story of...

Double CrossBen MacintyrePaperback399 Pages2013 In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved...

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (Women of Action)by Cheryl Mullenbachpaperback272 Pages2008 “Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft won’t be necessary. . . . If...

Drawing D-Day: An Artist's Journey Through War Ugo Giannini Hardcover 192 Pages 2019 Drawing D-Day: An Artist's Journey Through War offers an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind testimony in words and images by a soldier and artist who participated in...

Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs Tim Lynch Paperback 96 Pages 2017 In May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force. They were isolated from the rest of the fighting forces—alone and encircled by large numbers of enemy troops...

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II  By Robert Matzen Paperback 404 pages Uncover the hidden history of Audrey Hepburn's harrowing experiences during World War II in Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen. This gripping biography details...

  How Easy Company Became a Band of Brothers - Signed Copy   By: Chris Langlois (Author) and Anneke Helleman (Illustrator) Paperback 62 Pages Ages: 13-18 February 2018   Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...

Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Don MalarkeyPaperback304 Pages2009 Elite paratrooper Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the World War II battles fought from Normandy to Germany,...

Eisenhower: A Life Paul Johnson Paperback 144 Pages 2015 Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he’s famous for, celebrated biographer...

Eisenhower in War and Peace By: Jean Edward Smith Paperback 976 pages 2013 Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.6 x 9.2 inches Historians long ago abandoned the view that Eisenhower’s was a failed presidency. He did, after all, end the Korean War...

Eisenhower: Soldier and Presidentby Stephen E. Ambrose Paperback 640 Pages Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 Blanche Wiesen Cook Paperback 688 Pages 2017 Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential...

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1884 - 1933 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback587 PagesMarch 1993 The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washington Post).Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933 - 1938 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback736 pagesJune 2000 The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).The captivating second...

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...

The Enemy Within Never Did Without: German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945 by Jeffery L. LittlejohnPaperback232 PagesMay 2015 Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during...

Engineering Hitler's Downfall: The Brains that Enabled Victoryby Gwilym RobertsPaperback240 PagesFebruary 2019 Whilst living in Liverpool, Britain's second most heavily bombed city during World War II, the author experienced at first-hand the terrible...

Enigma: The Untold Story of the Secret Capture David Balme Paperback 144 Pages 2017 David Balme will be forever known as the 20-year-old hero who, on 9 May 1941, boarded a German U-boat in mid-Atlantic, and captured one of the greatest secrets of...

Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II By: James Tobin Paperback 336 Pages Ernie Pyle, better than any other World War II journalist, conveyed the triumphs and tribulations of the common soldier trying to survive a brutal...

Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstokby Bram Vanderstok (Author), Simon Pearson (Foreword)Hardcover256 PagesApril 2019 "Quickly, I climbed up to the surface and immediately found...

Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at Warby Ray Lambert, Jim DeFeliceHardcover320 Pages2019 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day—read the...

  Every Man A Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World WarBy: Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelicePaperback320 Pages2019 Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day—read the...

Eeryday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogsby JoAnne OlianPaperback128 Pages1992 Few publications illustrate so comprehensively what American men, women, and children wore in the 1940s than the Sears catalogs of those years, when the...

  Fabeled Fiften: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15by Thomas McKelvey CleaverPaperback264 PagesOctober 2014 The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33...

FDRby Jean Edward SmithPaperback880 PagesMay 2008NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldOne of today’s premier...

A Short Biography of Franklin Delano RooseveltBy: Karen Roth2019Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt, was the longest serving US president, serving four terms and leading the country through the Great Depression and World War...

Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondant Maggie Higgins by: Jennet ConantHardcover416 PagesOctober 2023 A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated...

Fighting For Hope - African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America By: Robert F. JeffersonHardcover352 PagesNov. 2008 This fascinating history shows how African-American military men and women seized...

Fighting From Above - A Combat History of the US Air Force (The Ways of War Series)by Brian LasliePaperback270 PagesMarch 2024The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War—well...

Fighting to Survive World War II: Terrifying True StoriesBy: Nancy DickmannPaperback64 Pages2019Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.4 x 9.1 inchesAges Range: 10-14 YearsGrade Level: 4-9 World War II was filled with deadly battles. And people caught in the...

Finish Forty and Home: The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific by: Phil Scearce408 PagesPaperback During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most...

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...

Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 By Robert Matzen Paperback 432 Pages 2017 This fresh look at Hollywood's "Queen of Screwball," Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight...

  Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World WarBy: Mark Harris Paperback 528 Pages 2015   Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's...

Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWIIby P. O'Connell PearsonHardcover224 PagesProduct Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inchesAge Range: 10 and UpGrade Level: 5-6 “A truly inspiring read.” —Booklist (starred...

Foo: A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun: The secret Prison Diary of Frank 'Foo' Fujita by: Frank FujitaPaperback392 PagesMarch 1993 These memoirs are unique because of the six thousand Japanese-Americans who saw military service in the war...

Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945Rana MitterPaperback480 Pages2014 In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the...

Forgotten Heroes of World War IIPersonal Accounts of Ordinary SoldiersBy Thomas E. Simmons World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion and fear, destruction and death on a scale never before seen...

Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at WarBy: Linda HervieuxPaperback384 Pages2015 The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history—a story that...

Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germanyby James FenelonHardcover448 PagesIn this viscerally exciting account, a paratrooper-turned-historian reveals the details of World...

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945by David KennedyHardcover270 Pages2001 Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the...

Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War IIArthur HermanPaperback432 Pages2013 Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of...

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II By: Mitchell ZuckoffHardcover2014393 Pages Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during...

General Lesley J. McNair by Mark CalhounHardcover432 Pages2015 George C. Marshall once called him "the brains of the army." And yet General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944), a man so instrumental to America's military preparedness and Army modernization,...

General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statemanby Ed CrayPaperback864 PagesFebruary 2020 As the U.S. Army's Chief of staff through World War II, George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented number...

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II by Mari EderHardcover400 PagesAugust 2021 For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of...

Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War IIby Sandra M. Bolzenius Paperback248 Pages2018 Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United...

  Great Escape #1: Nazi Prison Camp Escape By: Michael Burgan (Author) and James Bernardin (Illustrator) Paperback128 Pages2020 Reading Level: 8-12 Years Grade Level: 3-7   Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape...

Guadalcanal Had It All!: Raiders, Destroyers and Banzai Charges (World War II Comix) By: Jay Wertz Paperback 24 pages 2018 Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.4 x 10.2 inches Age Range: 10 and up Like the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli,...

Hang Tough: The WWII Letters and Artifacts of Major Dick Winters   by Erik DorrHardcover304 Pages2020   The compelling WWII correspondence and artifacts of Major Dick Winters, commander of the Band of Brothers.Major Dick Winters of the 101st...

  Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality (Modern War Studies)   by Jeffrey T. Sammons  (Author), John H. Jr. Morrow (Author) Paperback528...

  Heavy Date Over Germany: The Life and Times of B-17 Tail Gunner Ray Perry   By: Jewelle Jordan KuenstlerPaperback230 Pages December 2019   Ray Perry was a farm boy from rural West Texas when America entered World War II. He always had...

Hell's Guest By: Colonel Glenn D. Frazier (Author) Paperback 231 pages 2010 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches In the summer of 1941 Glenn Frazier was a sixteen-year-old boy from the South Alabama farm country. Five months later, an...

Helmet for My Pillow By: Robert Leckie Paperback 305 Pages In January 1942, in the aftermath of the infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Robert Leckie enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. From boot camp on Parris Island, to the bloody war...

Hitler: Dictator or Puppet? By: Andrew NormanHardcover224 Pages 2011 Written by an authority on Adolf Hitler, this book charts new ground and shows how the writings of a deluded ex-monk, Lanz von Liebenfels and the pseudo-science of Liebenfels...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Lynn Peppas Paperback 48 Pages 2013 Age Range: 11 - 14 Grade Level: 2 - 3 This fascinating title chronicles the U.S. bombing of these Japanese cities during World War II. Topics include the development of the atomic bomb,...

Hitler's Atlantic Wall: Yesterday and Todayby Simon Forty (Author), Georger Forty (Author), Leo Marriott (Editor) Hardcover192 Pages2016 Masters of the continent, the Nazis realized that they would have to defend their gains, and once the United States...

Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity Ingrid von Oelhafen (Author), Tim Tate (Author) Hardcover 288 Pages 2016 Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted...

Hitler's War Beneth the Waves: The Menace of the U-Boats by Michael FitzGeraldPaperback256 pagesMarch 2020 During World War I, German U-boats had been the most effective naval weapon against the Allies and without America's entry into the war in 1917...

Hold On To Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Laneby Emil Sher (adapter), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator)40 PagesPaperbackAges 4-8January 12, 2021Discover the inspiring illustrated...

Hollywood Enlists!: Propaganda Films of World War II (Films and History)by Ralph DonaldHardcover274 PagesMarch 2017 Frequently referred to as “the Greatest Generation,” Americans of the World War II era were influenced by Hollywood’s...

Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America by Joan Wehlen MorrisonHardcover272 PagesReading Age: 12 Years and UpGrade Levels: 7-9November, 2012 Literary Classics Gold Medal in Historical Young AdultLiterary...

Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family's Journey to Uncover the Truth About an American HeroAllene Carter and Robert L. AllenPaperback224 Pages2004 Allene Carter's father-in-law was a decorated veteran. Yet it was not until the Carter family received a call...

How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Seconf World WarBy: Allen PackwoodHardcover288 Pages2018 When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was...

  How I Earned the Ruptured Duck: From Brooklyn to Berchtesgaden in World War II (Volume 92)   By: Leo Bogart  Hardcover168 Pages    Twenty years old when he entered the army in 1942, Leo Bogart was one of sixteen million...

I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews by Rudolf VrbaPaperback480 Pages April 2020The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz SurvivorApril 7,...

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 By: Lauren Tarshis (Author) and Scott Dawson (Illustrator) Paperback 118 pages 2011 Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 5.2 x 7.8 inches Age Range: 7-10 years Grade Level: 2-5 70 years later, the bombing of...

Images of the Marshall Plan in Europe: Films, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters Edited by: Gunter Bischof, Dieter StiefelHardcover236 Pages The Marshall Plan is considered the most successful foreign aid program in American history. It played a crucial role...

Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Recipents of World War II by Robert ChildPaperback288 PagesJune 2023 The remarkable story of seven African-American soldiers denied the Medal of Honor for more than 50 years due to their race, and their...

Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Recipients of WWBy: Robert ChildHard Cover288 Pages2022 The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their...

In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II by James M. Davis  Paperback 256 Pages September 2007   James “Jim” Davis lived what he considered “an impossible dream” as he piloted a B-24, as part of...

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...

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945By: Max HastingsPaperback800 Pages2012Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply...

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from WWII to PeaceBy: Ashely BryanHardcover112 Pages2019 Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor AwardRecipient of a Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction Special Mention Honor AwardA Kirkus...

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...

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...

Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life James Scott Wheeler Hardcover 616 Pages 2015 General Jacob L. "Jake" Devers (1897–1979) was one of only two officers?the other was Omar C. Bradley?to command an army group during the decisive campaigns of...