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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (P.S.) by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M Edsel Publisher Comments At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's classic The Great War and Modern Memory remains one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Battle of Wits : the Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (00 Edition) by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pacific War by John Costello Publisher Comments John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic WWII Voyage of the SS Contessa by Tim Brady Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham Publisher Comments Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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World War II : New History (09 Edition) by Evan Mawdsley Publisher Comments This is a magisterial new global history of World War II. Beginning in 1937 with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Evan Mawdsley shows how the origins of World War II lay in a conflict between the old international order and the new and then traces... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Faith Under Fire: Stories of Hope and Courage from World War II by Steve Rabey Publisher Comments The Second World War generation met many challenges, and turned to their faith to sustain them through overwhelming odds. Here are stories of faith told by the people who lived them. this compelling collection not only honors the lives of these people of... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-Two Days That Decided World War II by David Downing Publisher Comments As the Japanese fleet prepared to sail from Japan to Pearl Harbor, the German army was launching its final desperate assault on Moscow, while the British were planning a decisive blow against Rommel in North Africa. The British conquered the desert, the... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose Publisher Comments In this companion to the HBO miniseries — executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman — Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. Between... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Panzer Leader (96 Edition) by Heinz Guderian Publisher Comments General Heinz Guderians revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brough Germany its initial victories during World War II. Combining Guderians land offensive with Luftwaffe attacks, the Nazi Blitzkrieg decimated the defenses of... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Day of Infamy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Edition by Walter Lord Publisher Comments A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember. Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt said, a date which will live in infamy. Day of Infamy is... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D Day by Cornelius Ryan Publisher Comments THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF THE ALLIED INVASION OF NORMANDY The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins Publisher Comments Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Second World War Gathering Storm Volume 1 by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The step-by-step decline into war, with Churchill becoming prime minister as "the tocsin was about to sound."... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Beachhead : the 29TH Infrantry Division in Normandy (Rev 05 Edition) by Joe Balkoski Publisher Comments By 1945, the US Army had sixty-eight infantry divisions, forty-two of which fought in the great campaign in northwest Europe that began with the amphibious landings on D-Day and ended eleven months later with Germany's surrender. Beyond the Beachhead... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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World War II: Strange and Fascinating Facts: With 4139 Entries about the People, the Battles, and the Events by Don Mccombs Publisher Comments 4,139 entries covering the battles, backgrounds and players in the Allied and Axis powers. A cornucopia of unusual information to intrigue any World War II buff and a unique approach to learning history. 672 pages.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker Publisher Comments Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy -- a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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