Reaping the Whirlwind: Personal Accounts of the German, Japanese & Italian Experiences of WWII
David & Charles, 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). New York Times Bestseller In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a......
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of.....
The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
New York University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand.....
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Broadway, May 2012. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Nazi Germany.....
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Hachette Books, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a prodigiously researched and engrossing (New York Times) book that shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history (Denver Post). Recruited.....
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
Random House, 2017. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The.....
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together.....
Stalingrad : The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943
Penguin Group USA Inc, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.....
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Crown, October 2012. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five.....
Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad
Gotham, 2006. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A sneak attack by an enemy power leaves thousands of Americans dead. A minority group in America is harassed for its ties to a foreign country. A worldwide conflict tests our resolve in combat abroad and our.....
Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
Broadway Books, May 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The remarkable untold story of France's courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country's most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." -Claude.....
A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War
Belknap Press, 2000. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In the course of the 20th century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toil reveal the true face of modern, industrialised warfare. Now, for the first.....
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
Crown, March 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots.....
Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Penguin Group USA Inc, November 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In December 1937, flush with confidence from their victories over the Nationalists in Beijing and Shanghai, the Japanese Army swept into Nanking and, over the next seven weeks, looted and burned the city and systematically raped, brutalized.....
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Penguin Books, March 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and.....
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (School edition)
Harper, 1942. Hardcover. 184 pages. Illustrated from 60 black-and-white photograhs by John Swope. An account of Army Air Forces training at the start of the Second World War, written on behalf of the USAAF. This edition identical to the Viking edition but with thinner paper and with School edition noted.....
The Traitor: A Heart-Wrenching Saga of WWII Nazi-Resistance
Kensington, February 2020. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Fans of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club picks eager for their next moving historical novel--look no further! Readers of The Alice Project and The Lost Girls of Paris will be enthralled by V.S. Alexander's The Traitor. Drawing on the.....
The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
Penguin Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's.....
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Random House Trade, November 2014. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager.....
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
The Lyons Press, June 2007. Trade Paperback. We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply.....
Internees Help with Illinois Peach Harvesting (Japanese internment B/W photo)
Acme Newspictures, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Photograph. Photograph, B/W, 6 x 8 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy. Stamp on rear of Acme Newspictures, Inc., Chicago Bureau. Caption pasted to rear: 'Chicago Bureau, Internees Help with Illinois Peach Harvest. Freeburg, Ill.: Tak Kikita, a Jap internee from.....
The Second World War
Back Bay Books, June 2013. Trade Paperback. A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The.....
Help the War: Save Paper; Save Waste Paper and Help Win the War; Save Waste Paper: Help fight The paper Hanger With it (3 WWII related items)
Diamond Match Co. (items 1 and 2), ca. 1943. Trade Paperback. Items 1 and 2 are paper match book covers with printed admonitions. Item 3 is a printed hand-addressed envelope with slogan upper left. Near fine copies. The matches and staples have been removed from the match covers.
Testament of a Dying Partisan
L. Adamic, n.d, ca. 1943. First Edition Thus. Ephemera. Single sheet trifolded to create 6 pages, printed on 5 leaves, in red on white. From the book 'My Native Land'. Adamic relates the story of a Yugoslavian partisan who mortally wounded writes a brief unfinished letter to his unborn son.....