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The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
by Smith, Jean Edward
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- 2019
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The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz Saved the City of Light by Jean Edward Smith
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Following their breakout from Normandy in late June 1944, the Allies swept across northern France in pursuit of the German army. The Allies intended to bypass Paris and cross the Rhine… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance During World War II
by Barr, Niall
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Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance During World War II by Niall Barr
The Anglo-American relationship from 1941 - 1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened to pull the alliance apart. Based on considerable archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, this book considers the breadth and… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Death in San Pietro: The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, and the Fight for Purple Heart Valley
by Brady, Tim
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- 2013
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- 9780306822148
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A Death in San Pietro: The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, and the Fight for Purple Heart Valley by Tim Brady
December 1943. In war-ravaged Italy near a small village north of Naples, the paths of three men -- platoon leader Captain Henry Waskow, award-winning journalist Ernie Pyle, and the young filmmaker John Huston -- crossed. They would never… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
by Mazzeo, Tilar J.
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- 2022
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- 9781538735268
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Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano had permeated the public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women -- a fascist leader's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite -- risked their… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Battle of Midway
by Symonds, Craig L.
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- 2011
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The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds
There are few moments in military history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By suncet, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk by American planes.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
by Williams, Susan
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- 2016
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- 9781610396547
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II by Susan Williams
In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb -- and to make sure nobody saw them doing it.
Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Deliver Us from Darkness: The Untold Story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment During Market Garden
by Gardner, Ian
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- 2012
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- 9781849087179
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Deliver Us from Darkness: The Untold Story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment During Market Garden by Ian Gardner
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On September 17, 1944, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment dropped into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. The regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, was tasked with securing the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
by Beevor, Antony
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- 2018
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- 9780525429821
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Antony Beevor
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On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch… Read more about this item Item Price
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Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II
by Barger, Judith
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- 2013
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- 9781606351543
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Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II by Judith Barger
At the height of World War II, five hundred Army flight nurses served with the Army Air Forces as members of thirty-one medical air evacuation squadrons located throughout the world on both the European and Pacific fronts. Their work was not insignificant -- over one million… Read more about this item Item Price
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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
by Hastings, Max
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- 2020
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- 9780062953636
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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II by Max Hastings
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Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in northwest Germany by Britain's Royal Air Force 617 Squadron, was an epic wartime maneuver that has become military legend.
Max Hastings grew up embracing the story,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944
by Neiberg, Michael
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- 2012
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The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by Michael Neiberg
As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe -- sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino -- were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War
by Simms, Brendan and Charlie Laderman
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- 2021
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- 9781541619098
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Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War by Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman
By early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were not yet inextricably linked -- and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
by Ohler, Norman
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- 2020
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The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining on the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet -- and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born.
Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood in the fight against… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships
by Read, Simon
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- 2020
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The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships by Simon Read
By 1941, the sea had become a mass grave. Hitler's four capital warships -- Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the largest warship on the ocean -- roamed the wind-swept waves, threatening the Allied war effort and sending thousands of men to the icy depths of the North… Read more about this item Item Price
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Their Backs Against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II
by Sloan, Bill
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- 2017
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Their Backs Against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II by Bill Sloan
In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, U.S. Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants,… Read more about this item Item Price
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