History -- World War II from I Cannot Live Without Books

Under a Darkening Sky: The American Experience in Nazi Europe, 1939 - 1941 by Robert Lyman A poignant and powerful portrait of Europe in the years between 1939 and 1941 -- as the Nazi menace marches toward the greatest man-made catastrophe the world has ever experienced -- Under a Darkening Sky focuses on a diverse group of expatriate Americans. Told through… Read more about this item

Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams By March 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, had assembled seven armies -- including George Patton's Third U.S. Army, part of Omar Bradley's 12th U.S. Army Group, and Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group -- along the Westwall, also known as the Siegfried… Read more about this item

Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor by Dick Lehr THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. "Air raid on Pearl Harbor. This is not drill." At 7:58 A.M. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center frantically typed what would become… Read more about this item

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943 - 1944 (Volume Two of the Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson In An Army at Dawn, Rick Atkinson provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa during World Awr II. Now, in The Day of Battle, the second volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Atkinson follows the strengthening… Read more about this item

The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America by Ed Offley On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into the Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell… Read more about this item

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta, 1942 by Max Hastings It was August 1942, and Malta, a longtime British bastion, was within weeks of enforced surrender to the Axis as its population starved. Once a strategic base for the Royal Navy, the island had since been bombed by the Luftwaffe more heavily than London had been during the Blitz.… Read more about this item

Sand & Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France by Peter Caddick-Adams "Tuesday 6 June 1944 was a day like no other." So begins this history of D-Day, published on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. It was a day like no other with good reason. The invasion of Normandy by Allied forces was perhaps the greatest and most… Read more about this item

The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz Saved the City of Light by Jean Edward Smith THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. 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

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

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

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

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

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

Deliver Us from Darkness: The Untold Story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment During Market Garden by Ian Gardner THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. 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

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Antony Beevor THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES 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

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

Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II by Max Hastings THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. 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

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

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

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