The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of ...
Erik Larson#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprec...
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-19...
Geoffrey C. WardThe vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and helped to win - the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 ...
David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light...
The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is told through the lives of six young men pictured in the famous news photo of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi. Hailing from different parts of the United States, these young men ...
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man a...
Ben MacintyreOne April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Minc...
The Guns at Last Light: The War in We...
Rick AtkinsonThe eagerly awaited final volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson's New York Times bestselling Liberation Trilogy.It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Eu...
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of ...
Robert KursonIn 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 great historical mystery–...
Few, The: The American 'Knights of th...
Alex KershawIt was the summer of 1940, and World War II had been raging for nearly a year. Buoyed by his successes on the Continent, Hitler was now planning an invasion of England to seal Europe's fate.Though the United States was still a neutral...
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Antony BeevorUnabridged CDs • 14 CDs, 18 hours The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945.
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story o...
Robert J. MrazekIn the tradition of Band of Brothers, this is the untold story of a squadron of navy pilots whose heroism was decisive in America's victory in the Pacific.
Citizens of London: The Americans Who...
Lynne OlsonFrom the acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men comes a major new World War II history that describes the developments of America's crucial wartime alliance with England that became so decisive in defeating Hitler.
Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan,...
Barrett TillmanThe first book to fully cover the air war against Japan, Whirlwind examines the human drama of the most important strategic bombing campaign in history.
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS...
Doug StantonMany survivors of the attack believe that McVay was innocent...and they have organized campaigns to have his record cleared. This has been supported by vote of Congress, but the Navy itself remains adamant. Perhaps Stanton's vivid acc...
Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remem...
Larry SmithThe men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history.
The Demon Under the Microscope: From ...
Thomas HagerFast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and beyond.The Nazis discovered it. The Al...
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at G...
James D. HornfischerWith The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America's World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men...
My Tank Is Fight!: Deranged Invention...
Zack ParsonsMy Tank Is Fight!' contains a humorous and exciting examination of twenty real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day. Each entry includes full technical details, a complete development history, in-depth analysis...
The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocra...
Marc WortmanIn this fascinating yet little-known chapter of World War I history, journalist Marc Wortman provides a group portrait of young men of privilege--with names like Rockefeller and Morgan--who served in the U.S. Navy Air Reserve, flying ...
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Max HastingsFrom one of our finest military historians comes 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...
No Simple Victory: World War II in Eu...
Norman DaviesIn this groundbreaking work, Davies offers a clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made by America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in order to get at the startling truth...
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic St...
Hampton SidesIn this history of a World War II rescue operation, the mission of a group of elite U.S. Rangers sent to free several hundred prisoners of war held by the Japanese is complicated by the fact that their target is also a shipping point ...
D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic ...
Stephen E. AmbrosePublished to mark the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day: June 6, 1944 relies on over 1,400 interviews with veterans, as well as prodigious research in military archives on both sides of the Atlan...
The Stephen Ambrose World War II Audi...
Stephen AmbroseIn 'D-Day, Stephen Ambrose draws on hundreds of oral histories as well as never-before-available information from around the world to tell the true story of how the Allies broke through Hitler's Atlantic Wall, revealing that the intri...
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pa...
William Raymond ManchesterThe book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and,...
Like all Keegan's work, 'The First World War' is beautifully written and full of telling detail. It has its faults, but it is certainly the best overall account for the general reader that has appeared since that by Cyril Falls nearly...
11 Days in December: Christmas at the...
Stanley WeintraubIt was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort to the Allied soldiers trying to stop the Nazis from retaking Belgium in one of the most decisive battles of World War II. While a German loudspe...
Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's N...
Christopher DoddSenator Christopher J. Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg. Senator Thomas Dodd began his career of public service as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Chris Dodd rece...
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and...
Michael R. BeschlossHistorian Beschloss examines the secret diplomatic and political plans by Roosevelt and, later, Truman to contain Germany following a military victory. The goal was to dismantle the Third Reich and to guarantee that there could never ...
An engrossing chronicle of a tight-knit crew of young naval aviators in the epic final---and most brutal---major battle of World War II: Okinawa.
[MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.] [Read by Raymond Todd] Extensively researched, including interviews with twenty of the twenty-seven remaining survivors, The First...