General WWII History

109 East Palace PB by Jennet ConantPaperback 448 PagesMay 2006 From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three-thousand people who lived together in near confinement for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert...

15 Days of Hell: One Man's Battle for PeleliuLew Shuman and Jordan WinerPaperback134 Pages2015 The diary and memoir of Dr. Jordan Winer and his personal un-edited words of his time as a navy corpsman on the island of Peleliu during the invasion of...

40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles by Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia KraackPaperback338 PagesAugust 2021 An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40...

50 Aircraft That Changed the WorldRon Dick and Dan PattersonPaperback208 PagesOctober 2020 (new edition) In this book, the authors of the widely acclaimed Aviation Century series profile 50 of history's most influential aircraft, their pilots and...

A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us   by Marcus Brotherton Paperback368 Pages2020 THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONAfter the Band...

A Covert Affair by Jennet ConantPaperback416 PagesNovember 2011 When Julia and Paul Child Joined the OSS they had no way of knowning that their adventures with the spy service would lead them to a world of intrigue and, because of one idealistic but...

A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South by Stephanie HinnershitzPaperback296 pages2020 In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those...

A Foot Solider for Patton: The Story of a "Red Diamond" Infantryman with the US Third ArmyBy: Michael Bilder and James BilderHardcover304 PagesA brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II . . .A rarely frank account of the U.S...

A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hopeby Tom BrokawHardcover240 Pages20155¾ x 8½ inches From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change—a year spent battling...

A Picture Book of Anne Frankby David A. AdlerIllustrated by: Karen RitzPaperback32 PagesAge Range: 6 and upGrade Level: 1 and up A chronicle of the life of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, who kept a diary during her family's attempts to hide from the...

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heros of World War II Lynne Olson Paperback 512 Pages 2004 A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role...

A Religious History of the American GI in World War IIby G. Kurt Piehler Hardcover416 PagesDecember 2021 A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces’ unprecedented efforts to meet the...

A Sailor's Story Written and Illustrated by: Sam Glanzman Paperback 176 Pages 2015 Golden Age comic book legend Sam Glanzman draws upon his own World War II experiences in this outstanding graphic novel. Hailed by Eisner Award–winning Astro City...

A Short History of World War II 19th Printing Editionby James L. StokesburyPaperback416 Pages1980 Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have...

A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Storyby Mary Ellis and Melody ForemanPaperback248 Pages2019 We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that...

A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War by Randy Roberts Paperback304 Pages2012 "A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real...

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...

A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War by Williamson Murray and Allan Millett Paperback736 Pages In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll...

A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War IIby: Harry H. CrosbyPaperback348 PagesSeptember 2021 “A compelling account of the air war against Germany” written by the...

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War IIby Sonia PurnellHardcover368 Pages2019 The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of...

Aachen: The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War IIby Robert BaumerHardcover416 PagesJanuary 2015 By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the...

Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval LifeThomas Alexander HughesHardcover544 Pages2016 William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder...

After Nuremberg: American Clememcy for Nazi War Criminals by Robert HutchinsonHardcover352 PagesOctober 2022 How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the...

Aftermath of World War II  by Elisabeth HerschbachPaperback48 PagesAugust 2022Age: 10-15 yearsGrade: 5-9 This book describes the immediate impacts and long-term changes brought about by World War II, from changes in borders and governments to...

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimare Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex KershawHardcover368 PagesMarch 2022 *The instant New York Times bestseller*The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II—all Medal...

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime SpyBen MacintyreHardback432 Pages2021 The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent...

Agent ZigzagBen MacintyrePaperback364 Pages2008 “Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”—William...

Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943By: Erica FischerPaperback416 Pages2015 Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim...

Aircrafts of World War II by Robert JacksonPaperback320 PagesFebruary 2020 Learn all about 75 of the most important WWII warplanes, from the venerable Fairey Swordfish biplane to the first operational jet fighter. Aircraft of World War...

Alice on the Island: A Pearl Harbor Survival StoryBy: Mayumi Shimose Poe (Author) and Matt Forsyth (Illustrator)Paperback112 Pages2019Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.5 inchesAge Range: 8-12 YearsGrade Level: 3-7 In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days...

Allied Armor in Normandy by Yves BuffetautPaperback128 Pages2018 Tanks were the beasts of the Second World War, machines designed to destroy anything and anyone in their path. Throughout the summer of 1944, the Allied forces readily employed tanks and...

Allied Tanks of the Second World War Michael GreenPaperback208 Pages2017 Expert author Michael Green has compiled a full inventory of the tanks developed and deployed by the Allied armies during the six year war against Nazi Germany and her Axis partners...

Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War IIby Mark A. StolerPaperback408 Pages During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the...

  AlliesBy: Alan Gratz HardcoverOctober 2019Grade Level: 4-7 336 PagesReading Level: 9-12 years A New York Times bestseller!Alan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, weaves a stunning array of voices and stories into an epic tale...

Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII By: William W. Putney Paperback 256 Pages As a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoon...

Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, Vol. 1: A-MEdited by: Reina Pennington and Robin D. S. HighamHardcover424 Pages With entries overviewing groups such as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native...

American Airpower Stategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil by Conrad CranePaperback288 Pages2016 Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War. In his 1993 Bombs, Cities, and...

American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission John Wukovits Paperback 368 Pages 2010 Before the Green Berets...Before the Navy SEALs...Before the Army Rangers...There was the Long Patrol...

American Flygirl by Susan AnkenyHardcover272 PagesApril 23, 2024 One of WWII’s most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military...

American Girls, Beer, and Glenn Miller: GI Morale in WWIIby James J. CookePaperback224 Pages2016 As World War II dawned in Europe, General George C. Marshall, the new Army Chief of Staff, had to acknowledge that American society-and the citizens who...

American Hero: The True Story of Tommy Hitchcock--Sports Star, War Hero, and Champion of the War-Winning P-51 Mustang Nelson Aldrich Hardcover 320 Pages 2016 This is the true story of Tommy Hitchcock, a war hero, the world’s greatest polo player,...

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerBy: Kai BirdPaperback721 Pages2006 J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his...

American PT Boats in World War II (Volume 1)by Victor ChunHardcover240 Pages American PT Boats in World War II is an illustrated study of the development, construction, tactics, and combat actions, of U.S. PT Boats.

American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II Jonathan W. Jordan Paperback 624 Pages 2016 From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan W. Jordan—author of Brothers, Rivals, Victors—comes the intimate true...

An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawPaperback400 PagesApril 2002 “I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged...

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943By: Rick AtkinsonHardcover681 Pages In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WWII, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North...

And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II By: Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-GreenleePaperback528 Pages In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of...

Andrew Higgins & The Boats That Landed Victory By: Nancy Rust and Carol Stubbs Illustrated By: Brock NicolHardcover32 Pages2020 Andrew Higgins built boats that could "crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, climb a beach," and "wham up on a...

Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War IIBy: Jerry E. StrahanPaperback382 Pages Allied commander-in-chief Dwight Eisenhower called him "the man who won the war for us". Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II is the...

An Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank FamilyBy: Miep Gies and Alison Leslie GoldPaperback272 Pages2009 For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis's own...

Architects of Air Power: General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the US Air Force (American Warriors Series)by Brian LaslieHardcover254 PagesOctober 2017At age 36, Laurence S. Kuter (1905–1979) became the youngest general officer since William T...

At First Light: A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing HorseBy Walt Larimore MD and Mike YorkeyHardcover480 PagesApril 19 2022What makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore’s story special is what happened in World War II’s...

Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Alex Kershaw Paperback 320 Pages 2016 The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied...

B-17 Memphis Belle (Images of War)by Graham SimonsPaperback128 Pages2012 Without doubt Boeing Flying Fortress B-17F 41-42285 Memphis Belle and her crew generate an image that is an all-American icon. Indeed, it has been claimed that the Memphis Belle is...

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 of the Bulge (The Young Readers Adaptation)by Rick AtkinsonPaperback272 PagesAges 8-12June 2016 December 16, 1944. In the frozen forests of the Ardennes, a surprise attack by the German army on American Allied forces launched the long, hard slog...

Battling While Black: General Patton's Heroic African American WWII Battalions by Peter GravettPaperback318 PagesOctober 2023 Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a...

Bazooka vs Panzer: Battle of the Bulge 1944    by Steven J. Zaloga (Author), Alan Gilliland (Illustrator) and Johnny Shumare (Illustrator) Paperback 80 PagesNovember, 2016   World War II saw tanks assume a dominant role in warfare,...

Behind Barbed Wire: A History of Concentration Camps from the Reconcentrados to the Nazi System 1896 - 1945 by Deborah G. LindsayPaperback396 PagesMarch 2020 Most people associate concentration camps with Nazi Germany. Behind Barbed Wire examines how...

Behind Enemy Lines : The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi GermanyMarthe CohnPaperback304 Pages2006 Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews...

Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place by Barbara Lowell (Author) and Valentina Toro (Illustrator)Paperback40 PagesSeptember 2020Ages: 7-11 YearsGrade: 2-5 Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies...

Beneath Haunted Waters: The Tragic Tale of Two B-24s Lost in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during World War II Peter Stekel Paperback 328 Pages 2017 Beneath Haunted Waters is the tale of waters in the High Sierra haunted by generations of people...

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...

Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against Franceby Stephen Alan Bourque Hardcover376 Pages2018 An important rethinking of the Normandy war narrative Beyond the Beach examines the Allied air war against France in 1944. During this period, General Dwight...

Beyond The Latino World War II HeroBy: Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez and Emilio ZamoraPaperback263 Pages Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez's edited volume Mexican Americans & World War II brought pivotal stories from the shadows, contributing to the...

Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combatby Patrick O'DonnellPaperback384 Pages2001 Members of the Ranger and Airborne troops from World War II tell their own action-packed stories of dropping behind enemy...

Bigger Bombs for A Brighter TomorrowBy: John CuratolaPaperback236 Pages Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. With the American “Pax Atomica” in place, the free world held an apparent strategic...

Bletchley Park Brainteasers: Over 100 puzzles, riddles, and enigmas inspired by the greatest minds of World War II  by Sinclair McKayPaperback288 PagesNovember 2018 Do you fancy mastering morse code? Discovering whether your crossword hobby might...

Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfareby Robert M. CitinoPaperback430 PagesMay, 2022 Winner: Paul Birdsall PrizeWinner: Society for Military History book AwardWhen Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it...

Blood on German Snow: An African American Artilleryman in World War II and Beyond By Emiel W. Owens (Author)Hardcover160 PagesAugust 2006 Emiel Owens served his country in the 777th Field Artillery, involved in actions from Omaha Beach to the occupation...

A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America by Susan DunnPaperback264 pages2019 One hundred days that set the stage for the American CenturyIn the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November...

Bob Hope: A Life In Comedyby William Robert Faith Paperback560 Pages2003 Reporter: "What's it like to be Bob Hope?"Hope: "I wouldn't have it any other way."From Bob Hope's early career as an upstart among professionals like Jack Benny and Milton Berle in...

Bomber Command: Battle of Berlin: Failed to Return by Steve Bond, Steve Darlow, Sean Feast, AndrewMacdonald, Dr. Robert Owen, Howard Sandall, and Nicole RussellHardcover128 PagesJuly 2017 ‘Tonight you are going to the Big City. You will have the...

Brave Men (Penguin Classic Edition) by Ernie Pyle - Introduction by David ChrisingerPaperback544 PagesReissue May 30 2023 The classic, human-scale account of the soldiers who fought in World War II, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie...

Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War From D-Day to VE-Dayby James HollandHardcover592 PagesNovember, 2021 Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the...

  Brothers in Valor: Battlefield Stories of the 89 African American Awarded the Medal of Honor   By: Robert F. Jefferson Jr.  (Author), Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr. (Foreword) Hardcover 284 Pages October 2018   During...

  By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz By: Max EisenPaperback304 Pages  2020   An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie...

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...

  Catherine's War By: Julia Billet (Author), Claire Fauvel (Illustrtor), Ivanka Hahnenberger (Translator)Paperback176 Pages2020Grade Level: 3-7Reading Level: 8-12 Years This middle grade graphic novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in...

Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story by Joseph Bruchac (Author) and Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)Paperback32 PagesMarch 7, 2024Ages: 7-10 YearsGrade: 1-5 A Junior Library Guild Selection April 20182018 Cybils Award...

Chester Nimitz and the Seaby Jane Sutcliffe (Author) Craig Kodera (Illustrator)Hardcover32 pagesAges: 7-10yearsGrade: K-3September, 2013 Celebrate the exciting life of a World War II naval hero! When Pearl Harbor was bombed, Pres. Franklin D...

Children in the Holocaust (Focus Readers: Children in History: Voyager Level)By: Samantha S. BellPaperback48 Pages2018 Age Range: 9-14 YearsGrade Level: 5-6 Presents true accounts of children who lived during the Holocaust. Personal narratives,...

Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love and Survival by Mona Golabek (Author), and Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback288 PagesNovember 1, 2003 Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the...

The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II (Yong Readers Edition) by Emil Sher (Adapter), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback224 PagesAges 8-12March 28, 2017A young...

China's Good War: How World War II I's Shaping a New Nationalism    By Rana Mitter (Author) Hardcover  336 Pages September 2020   Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience...

Churchill: Military Genius or Menace? Stephen Napier Hardcover 448 Pages 2018 Churchill has gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. From the day the Second World War was declared he stood out as the only man...

Churchill The Life: An Authorized Pictorial Biographyby Max ArthurPaperbacK272 PagesSeptember 2018 The life and times of the great statesman as he saw it. "This beautifully produced volume brings Churchill vividly to life... The book richly reveals both...

Churchill: Walking with Destiny Andrew Roberts Hardcover 1,152 Pages 2018 In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and...

Churchill Warrior: How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest HoursBy: Brian LaveryHardcover448 Pages 2017 On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, issued numerous memos to the...

Churchill: Master & Commander By Anthony Tucker-JonesHardcover384 Pages2021 An engaging and detailed study of Winston Churchill's career as a military commander, from his early experiences in Britain's colonial wars, through his battlefield...

Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraftby Lewis E. LehrmanHardcover472 PagesJanuary 2017 During World War II the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won...

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...

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchillby Sonia PurnellPaperback448 Pages2016 A long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate...

Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II Edited by: Eric L. Muller Photographs by: Bill Manbo Hardcover 136 Pages In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908 -1992) and his family were forced from...

  Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) By: Allan BerubePaperback 416 Pages2010   During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented...

Commander in Cheif: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War, 2) by Nigel HamiltonPaperback496 PagesMay 2017 From Nigel Hamilton's acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDR's yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the...

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...