Ordinary Men - Revised Edition: Reser...
Christopher R. BrowningChristopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true sto...
Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated ...
Stephen BudianskyIn March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today,...
Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Norma...
Donald R. BurgettSeven days in hellIn June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, a new breed of fighting man leapt from airplanes through a bullet-stitched, tracer-lit sky to...
Battleground Prussia: The Assault on ...
Prit ButtarThe terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wr...
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic M...
James CampbellReminiscent of classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, this harrowing portrait of a largely overlooked campaign is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and---through letters, journals, and interviews---part...
Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The La...
Thomas ChildersOn April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theater of World War II. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew—where they came from, how they trained, ...
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disast...
Jeffrey CoxFew events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress ...
New York Times Bestseller: A "virtually faultless" account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (The New York Times Book Review). By midsummer 1945, Japan had long since lost ...
Decision in Normandy: The Real Story ...
Carlo D'Este[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] This is military history at its most dramatic and destined to become the definitive account of the Normandy campaign. Field Marshal Montgomery's battle plan for Normandy, following ...
If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alter...
Harold DeutschAlternative military strategies of the Second World War.What if Stalin had signed with the West in 1939? What if the Allies had been defeated on D-Day? What if Hitler had won the war? From the Munich crisis and the dropping of the fir...
Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversio...
M. Stanton EvansMost Americans have grown accustomed to accept the version of history that the Soviets were our noble allies and took the brunt of the casualties during World War II. But after decades of research by veteran journalist M. Stanton Evan...
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin...
Michael Fullilove"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark days between Hitler's invasion of Poland i...
The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa.April 1945. The end of World War II finally appea...
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and t...
William Geroux"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the BoatOne of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast...
1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls...
Winston GroomFrom the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders comes a riveting chronicle of America's most critical hour. On December 6, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new bra...
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Sta...
Winston GroomBest-selling author Winston Groom's riveting narrative tells the complex story of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin's alliance to win World War II and create a new world order. By the end of World War II, 59 n...
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 ...
Max HastingsFrom 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 personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million...
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945
Max HastingsWinston's War is a vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime. Here are the glories and triumphs, the contradictions and blunders of the man who, through sheer force of will, kept Britain fighting in 1940. But as ...
The Burden of Hitler's Legacy is Alfons Heck's incredible story of serving the Nazi regime, and the bitter disillusionment he suffered as the Germany he loved was battered into oblivion. Only in the waning days of World War II, did he...
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story o...
Bruce HendersonNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "An irresistible history of the WWII Jewish refugees who returned to Europe to fight the Nazis." —NewsdayThey were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. A...
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New His...
William I. HitchcockAmericans are justly proud of the role the United States played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of the Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and rest...
Dam Busters: The True Story of the In...
James HollandThe night of 16 May, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the ...
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at T...
James HornfischerTimed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and mark...
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at G...
James D. HornfischerThe Battle of Guadalcanal has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy's sacrifice, James D. Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers,...
Abundance of Valor: Resistance, Liber...
Will IrwinRetired U.S. Special Forces colonel Will Irwin presents a brutally honest and truly inspiring account of the World War II operation known as "Market Garden," a high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory and the largest air...
Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey...
Maurice Isserman“Compelling and readable . . . I had serious trouble putting this book down.”—John C. McManus, author of Fire and Fortitude and The Dead and Those About to Die The epic story of the US Army’s 10th Mou...
Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower...
Jonathan W. JordanThe true story of the friendship--and rivalry--among the greatest American generals of World War II. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George S. Patton, and General Omar N. Bradley engineered the Allied conquest t...
Defiant Courage: A WWII Epic of Escap...
Astrid Karlsen ScottThe book that inspired the international film of the same name. "I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it. Then when we went to Norway to do a docudrama, people told us again and again that certain part...
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to...
John KeeganJohn Keegan's innovative approach to the invasion of Normandy correctly observes that the invasion, while colossal, was merely the beginning of a series of furious battles in northern France, and Keegan accordingly tackles not only th...
War Beneath the Waves: A True Story o...
Don KeithThe gripping story of heroism under the sea, from the national bestselling author of Final Patrol& U.S.S. Billfish In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the U.S.S. Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese...