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The Candy Bombers
by Andrei Cherny  Publisher Comments The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. On the sixtieth anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, Andrei Cherny tells a remarkable...
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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...
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
by Eugene B Sledge Publisher Comments In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so...
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War Without Mercy (86 Edition)
by John Dower Publisher Comments Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden,...
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Infantry Tactics of the Second World War
by Stephen Bull Synopsis Regardless of technological and doctrinal advances, final mastery of any battlefield ultimately depends upon the tight-knit group of soldiers trained to direct fire, move, take ground and hold it. This book examines the infantry combat methods of World...
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American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
by Robert Coram Publisher Comments During the course of his military career, through World War II, Korean, and then Vietnam, Bud Day received every available combat medal, escaped death on no fewer than seven occasions, and spent sixty-seven months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton...
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by Dick Winters Publisher Comments Now in paperback! The New York Times bestseller and war memoir from the commander of the legendary Band of Brothers &&now with a new preface from Dick Winters. They were called Easy Companybut their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of...
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Good War : an Oral History of World War II (84 Edition)
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments The first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book with a new Preface by the author. "As in "Hard Times" and "Working", this master interviewer again creates a turbulent epic of human experience by quoting the words of those who lived...
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D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the...
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Oxford Companion to World War II
by I C B Dear Publisher Comments World War II was a war that affected the entire world and reached into every aspect of existence. It touched all nations, penetrated all aspects of people's lives, and helped shape the world today. When Oxford first published this comprehensive guide to...
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The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII
by Howard Blum Publisher Comments It is the final weeks of World War II. His Majesty's Jewish Brigade, the only all-Jewish fighting unit in the war, goes into combat against the Nazis. In one glorious battle they push the Nazis back and emerge victorious only to be pulled from the front...
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Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-Creation of World War II Through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
by Simon Berthon Publisher Comments With innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the eyes and minds of its four great leaders-Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. While their nations battled in the field,...
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On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
by Jack Hamann
Powells.com Staff Pick Returning to a forgotten incident in local WWII history, Jack Hamann reintroduces the story of a horrible injustice influenced by the racial prejudices of the American prosecution. Skillfully told, this gripping work of military history couldn?t come at...
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Prompt and Utter Destruction : President Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan (Rev 04 Edition)
by J. Samual Walker Publisher Comments In this updated edition of his balanced and concise look at the still-controversial decision to use atomic bombs against Japan, Walker takes into account more recent scholarship on the topic, including new findings on the Japanese decision to surrender....
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Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
by Len Deighton Publisher Comments Despite the volumes written about World War II, many questions remain un-answered. In this balanced and thoughtful chronicle, historian and World War II expert Len Deighton dares to explore intriguing questions, including why the British weren't more...
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On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II (V Ethel Willis White Endowed Book Series)
by Jack Hamann Publisher Comments In describing the World War II murder charge of three African American soldiers in the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war, Harmann tells a harrowing story of race, privelege, and power. On American Soil raises important questions about how justice is...
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments Ferguson reinterprets the modern era and the central paradox of why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing....
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Sabotage and Subversion: The SOE and OSS at War
by Ian Dear Publisher Comments Espionage, disrupting an adversary's plans and flow of supplies, putting guerrilla groups to work behind enemy lines, inflicting damage on a foe's power and morale in ways other than direct battle: such strategies have always been a part of warfare. But,...
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments The Second World War has been romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty". In this study, Paul Fussell goes behind the familiar diplomacy and heroics of history to examine the...
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Second World War - With a New Forword (05 Edition)
by Michael K. Keegan Publisher Comments Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan here reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword. Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial...
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