Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: December 11, 2001 Price: $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-609-80844-3 (0-609-80844-3)
Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 6, 1996 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-76285-0 (0-679-76285-X)
Was the atomic bomb necessary to end the war with Japan? This extensively documented work by the foremost historian of the atomic decision and its aftermath provides the indispensable evidence and arguments for any serious attempt to answer that terrible question. As it minutely reconstructs the events leading up to Hiroshima, the book...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: January 17, 2012 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-94660-7 (0-307-94660-6)
Based on privileged access to the president and his private papers, this classic Cold War era history by bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose—who authored the most acclaimed full-scale biography of Eisenhower—gives an inside look at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed American secret operations.
During his presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower's public face...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 1104 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 7, 2010 Price: $27.50 ISBN: 978-0-307-27581-3 (0-307-27581-7)
For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained shrouded in secrecy–until now. This first-ever authorized account reveals the British Security Service as never before: its inner workings, its clandestine operations, its failures and its triumphs.
“Penetrating. . . . Inestimably valuable. ...
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Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: December 1, 1989 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-28218-4 (0-553-28218-2)
A shocking but uplifting story of true-life heroism during the Holocaust unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary. Alicia endured separation from her family and even the sight of her own mother's brutal murder to rescue Jews from the Nazis. She swore on her brother's grave that if she survived...
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Format: Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: October 9, 2001 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-23693-1 (0-440-23693-2)
Gerald Astor returns to the European Theater of Operations of World War II to bring to life one of the U.S. Army’s first elite combat units — the 517th Regimental Parachute Combat Team, also known as the Battling Buzzards.
Gerald Astor is also the author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of...Read more >
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: December 3, 1993 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-21574-5 (0-440-21574-9)
An engrossing oral history of World War II's most cataclysmic land battle--told in the words of those who were there, from the top decision-makers to foot soldiers in the trenches.
Gerald Astor is also the author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It and...Read more >
Format: Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: January 2, 2002 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-23695-5 (0-440-23695-9)
Integrating the personal experiences of officers, enlisted men, correspondents, and others on both sides of the conflict, a collection of eyewitness accounts chronicles the epic struggle for control of the Philippines, from Japanese conquest and occupation to the final battle.
“No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor.” — Stephen E...
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Format: Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: April 30, 2002 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-23697-9 (0-440-23697-5)
No other chronicle of D-Day can match Gerald Astor's extraordinary work--a vivid first-person account told with stunning immediacy by the men who were there. From soldiers who waded through the bullet-riddled water to those who dropped behind enemy lines, from moments of terror and confusion to acts of incredible camaraderie and...
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Format: Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: October 13, 1998 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-22648-2 (0-440-22648-1)
This dramatic oral history of the Eighth Air Force contains tales of survival and soul-numbing loss, of soldiers who came together to fight in World War II--and to win it with their courage and their blood.
"Astor recounts the many raids with clarity and vigor, traces the evolution of tactics, and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press On Sale: November 29, 2005 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-89141-877-1 (0-89141-877-6)
Here, one of America’s most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate conflicts ranging from the Marines’ gallant defense of Wake Island, where Captain Henry...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press On Sale: June 29, 2004 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-89141-834-4 (0-89141-834-2)
Terry de la Mesa Allen was one of the most remarkable soldiers in American military history. He failed out of West Point twice, yet ended up as a fearless battalion commander during World War I— personally leading patrols into no-man’s-land.
During World War II, following hard and successful combat in North Africa...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 12, 2008 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-38775-2 (0-307-38775-5)
Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know...
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Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: August 8, 2000 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-23609-2 (0-440-23609-6)
Told through vivid first-hand accounts, this is the gripping real-life story of a controversial mission at the heart of World War II.
"Eloquent...utterly believable...it is doubtful whether anyone ever believed Patton's version of this caper, but if anyone did, he can't now. Case closed."-- The New York Times Book Review Table of...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 14, 2008 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72471-8 (0-375-72471-0)
In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 11, 2008 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27580-6 (0-307-27580-9)
World War II remains a celebrated event in our collective memory—a time of great high-minded clarity, patriotic sacrifice, and national unity of purpose. It was the quintessential “good war,” in which the forces of freedom triumphed over the forces of darkness. Now, in his provocative new book, historian Michael Bess explodes...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: November 14, 2006 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7557-4 (0-8129-7557-X)
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the...
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Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press On Sale: February 23, 1992 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-8041-0565-1 (0-8041-0565-0)
From the deadly shores of North Africa to the invasion of Sicily to the fierce jungle hell of the Pacific, the contribution of the World War II Ranger Battalions far outweighed their numbers. They were ordinary men on an extraordinary mission, experiencing the full measure of the fear, exhaustion, and heroism...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: June 6, 2000 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-64032-5 (0-679-64032-0)
"His monumental work...is the most thorough study of the U-boat campaign available." --Library Journal
Hitler's U-boat War is an epic sea story about the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in history. For a period of nearly six years, the German U-boat force attempted to blockade and isolate the British Isles in...
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Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Universe On Sale: October 14, 2008 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-7893-9983-0 (0-7893-9983-0)
World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. It shaped world history and gave America its Greatest Generation. World War II: A Chronology of War is the definitive chronology of this war—serving as both a reference tool and handsome addition to any military history collection. Building upon official...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books On Sale: October 17, 2004 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-56098-368-2 (1-56098-368-X)
In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that...
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Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: January 1, 1977 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-26350-3 (0-553-26350-1)
Written by World War II Colonel Pappy Boyington, here in his own words, is the true story of America’s legendary flying hero and leader of the Black Sheep squadron in the South Pacific, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all–the fight to survive.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: May 4, 1999 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-75421-0 (0-375-75421-0)
D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory--Omar Bradley, the "GI General," was there for every major engagement in the European theater. A Soldier's Story is the behind-the-scenes eyewitness account of the war that shaped our century: the tremendous manpower at...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: April 23, 2013 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-59038-1 (0-307-59038-0)
The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents in the...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown On Sale: April 24, 2012 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-59037-4 (0-307-59037-2)
The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents in the...Read more >