World War II

Agent Zigzag, A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

by Ben Macintyre

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2008
PAPER
364 PAGES

Macintyre recounts the remarkable exploits of the enigmatic Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, a criminal, con man, and philanderer trained by the Nazis as a spy who became a British agent at the heart of the German Secret Service. (SPY37, $15.00)

Apartment in Athens

by Glenway Wescott

LITERATURE
2004
PAPER
288 PAGES

Back in print after 30 years, Glenway Wescott's 1945 bestseller is the story of a Greek couple who are forced to share their home in Nazi-occupied Athens with a German officer during World War II. (GRE198, $14.95)

At Dawn We Slept, The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

by Gordon W. Prange

HISTORY
2001
PAPER
889 PAGES

A massive account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (HWI183, $23.00)

The Avengers, A Jewish War Story

by Rich Cohen

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2000
PAPER
262 PAGES

The riveting tale of three kids from the Jewish ghetto, who went from the streets of Vilna to fighting the Germans and eventually wound up in a Kibbutz north of Tel Aviv. (BLT16, $16.00)

The Balkan Trilogy

by Olivia Manning

LITERATURE
2009
PAPER
924 PAGES

Jane Smiley provides the introduction for this new edition of Manning's chronicle of the wartime experiences of Harriet and Guy Pringle, continued in The Levant Trilogy. (BLK149, $22.95)

The Battle of Britain, The Myth and Reality

by Richard Overy

HISTORY
2002
PAPER
192 PAGES

Renowned war historian Richard Overy's reassessment of the Battle of Britain. (WAR28, $17.95)

Battle of Normandy 1944 Map

by Michelin Travel Publications

MAP

A reproduction of a 1947 map of Normandy showing the main sites of the summer 1944 battle. (FRN264, $12.95)

Beside a Burning Sea

by John Shors

LITERATURE
2008
PAPER
424 PAGES

Spanning 17 days in 1942 in the Soloman Islands, Shors's second novel follows a small band of American, Japanese and Fijian survivors after their hospital ship is destroyed by a torpedo. (PAC235, $14.00)

The Bitter Woods

by John S.D. Eisenhower | Stephen Ambrose

HISTORY
1995
PAPER

An enthralling narrative history of the Battle of the Bulge. (WAR24, $22.95)

A Bridge Too Far

by Cornelius Ryan

HISTORY
1995
PAPER
670 PAGES

War historian Cornelius Ryan chronicles in detailed, readable prose the battle of Arnhem, one of the most important -- and bloodiest -- campaigns in World War II. (WAR21, $19.99)

The Burma Road, The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II

by Donovan Webster

HISTORY
2004
PAPER
416 PAGES

Donovan draws on archival materials, military history, interview and travel in recreating the harrowing events surrounding the building of the 700-mile route across Burma to China. (BMA41, $14.99)

The Capture of Attu, A World War II Battle As Told by the Men Who Fought There

by Robert J. Mitchell | Sewell T. Tying | Nelson L. Drummond

HISTORY
2000
PAPER
192 PAGES

One of the lesser known battles of World War II. (ALA149, $18.95)

Christ Stopped at Eboli, The Story of a Year

by Carlo Levi | Frances Frenaye

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2006
PAPER
268 PAGES

An affecting memoir of southern Italy, originally published in 1947, it stems from the author's forced relocation to the region as punishment for anti-fascist political activity. (ITL09, $15.00)

Citizen Soldiers

by Stephen Ambrose

HISTORY
1998
PAPER
528 PAGES

Ambrose's account of the battles fought in the year between D-Day and the German surrender, from the U.S. Army's perspective. (WAR19, $18.00)

Codebreakers, the Inside Story of Bletchley Park

by Alan Stripp | F.H. Hinsley

HISTORY
2001
PAPER
352 PAGES

Memoirs of life in the British code-cracking department during World War II. (WAR46, $19.95)

Collins Atlas of World War II

by John Keegan

HISTORY
2006
PAPER
192 PAGES

With 200 maps, photographs and accompanying essays by the great historian John keegan on the war, the military campaigns, commanders, tactics and context. (WAR126, $19.99)

The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941

by Michael Beschloss

HISTORY
2003
PAPER
400 PAGES

A bestselling, popular history of the politics and diplomacy among Allied leaders leading up to the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. (GER164, $16.00)

Crown of Thorns, The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943

by Stephan Groueff

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1998
PAPER
440 PAGES

A biography of the famed Bulgarian monarch, who ruled from the end of World War I to the middle of World War II, when he defied Hitler's wishes for expelling Bulgaria's Jews. (BGR02, $26.95)

Crusade in Europe

by Dwight D. Eisenhower

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1997
PAPER
608 PAGES

The complete story of World War II as strategized and lived by Five-Star General Eisenhower. (WAR132, $35.00)

D-Day June 6, 1944, The Climactic Battle of World War II

by Stephen Ambrose

HISTORY
1995
PAPER
655 PAGES

Written by the best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, this well researched book draws together interviews and government documents to tell the gripping tale of D-Day. This comprehensive account contains 32 pages of photos and eight maps. (FRN40, $18.99)

A Dark and Bloody Ground, The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945

by Edward G. Miller

HISTORY
2003
PAPER
250 PAGES

The well documented story of battles in the Hurtgen Forest. (WAR26, $22.95)

Dawn of D-Day: These Men Were There, June 6, 1944

by David Howarth

HISTORY
2008
PAPER
255 PAGES

Howarth weaves interviews and eyewitness reports to recreate the atmosphere, horror and confusion of the assault on Normandy in this spellbinding account, first published in 1959. (FRN768, $14.95)

Defiance, The Bielski Partisans

by Nechama Tec

HISTORY
1994
PAPER
304 PAGES

The story of daring Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut. (RUS120, $14.95)

The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition

by Anne Frank

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1995
PAPER
340 PAGES

The classic story of an adolescent Jewish girl's life and thoughts while in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Holland. A new edition with added material. (NTH05, $13.00)

Doomed at the Start, American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942

by William H. Bartsch

HISTORY
1995
PAPER

The little-known story of the defeat of American pursuit pilots in the Philippines. (PLP25, $29.95)

Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945

by Frederick Taylor

HISTORY
2005
PAPER
376 PAGES

A re-evaluation of the Allied firebombing of Dresden, one of the most destructive, and still controversial, air campaigns of WWII. (GER145, $15.99)

Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII

by John W. Dower

HISTORY
2000
PAPER
676 PAGES

A social and political history of the postwar years in Japan. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, it's an eye-opening account by a leading scholar of Japanese-American relations at MIT. (JPN54, $19.95)

The Endless Steppe, Growing Up in Siberia

by Esther Hautzig | Jean-Francois Podevin

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1995
PAPER
243 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

The story of a girl, mother and grandmother shipped to a forced labor camp in Siberia. (SIB07, $7.99)

Everything is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

LITERATURE
2003
PAPER
276 PAGES

The very modern (and very funny) tale of a young man and the search for his Ukrainian heritage. Foer plumbs the humor and tragedy of the American protagonist on a journey back to Ukraine. (RUS168, $19.95)

The Finest Hour, The Battle of Britain

by Phil Craig | Tim Clayton

HISTORY
2002
PAPER
352 PAGES

A history of the air war over Britain in 1940. (WAR49, $24.95)

Flags of Our Fathers

by James Bradley

HISTORY
2006
PAPER
400 PAGES

A compelling portrait of the young men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, five marines and a navy corpsman. (PAC77, $16.00)

From Here to Eternity

by James Jones

LITERATURE
1991
PAPER
954 PAGES

One of the finest books on the army and World War II, this powerful tale is set among the soldiers at the US Army base at Diamond Head in 1941. While the army is the primary subject of the book, it's also a vivid portrait of Hawaii just before Pearl Harbor. (HWI16, $17.00)

Ghost Soldiers, The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission

by Hampton Sides

HISTORY
2001
HARD COVER
342 PAGES

A well-told popular history of a plan to liberate American soldiers in the Philippines. (PLP23, $35.00)

Graveyards of the Pacific, From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll

by Robert D. Ballard | Michael Hamilton Morgan | Stephen Ambrose

HISTORY
2001
HARD COVER
255 PAGES

An exploration of Pacific battle and nuclear testing sites, focusing on the sunken ships and downed airplanes scattered across the surrounding ocean floor. (PAC111, $45.00)

Guadalcanal, The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle

by Richard Frank

HISTORY
1992
PAPER
816 PAGES

A comprehensive account of the battle, using a variety of primary sources to flesh out the story of one of the most important battles on the Pacific front during WWII. (PAC61, $22.00)

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

HISTORY
1989
PAPER
152 PAGES

Never sensational, this 1946 classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians. (JPN20, $7.95)

A History of Fascism, 1914-1945

by Stanley G. Payne

HISTORY
1996
PAPER
628 PAGES

A schoalrly, comprehensive history with a focus on Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. (EUR132, $24.95)

Hitler and the Holocaust

by Robert S. Wistrich

HISTORY
2003
PAPER
295 PAGES

A short history of the cultural and political circumstances surrounding the genocide of the Jews. Wistrich looks closely at Anti-Semitism in Germany, Europe and abroad in an attempt to understand the evil unleashed during World War II. (EUR114, $15.00)

Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, January 1933

by Henry Ashby Turner

HISTORY
1997
PAPER
155 PAGES

An examination of the appointment of Hitler as German chancellor. (GER126, $16.00)

Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

HISTORY
1997
PAPER
624 PAGES

The controversial study of what ordinary German citizens did -- and did not do -- in reaction to the escalating horrors of WWII. (GER06, $17.95)

How I Learned Geography

by Uri Shulevitz

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2008
HARD COVER
28 PAGES
YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
NEW

A 2009 Caldecott Honor Book (his fourth), Uri Shulevitz's wise, beautifully drawn tale is also his most personal. "We traveled far, far east," he writes, "to another country, where summers were hot and winters cold, to a city of houses made of clay, straw, and camel dung, surrounded by dusty steppes, burned by the sun. In this story, drawing on his childhood memories of World War II, Shulevitz shows how a map, and imagination, took a little boy far away from the hungry and misery of exile in Kazakhstan. Dedicated to the memory of his father (who brought back the map one day from the market, rather than a crust of bread). (GEN506, $16.95)

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, Vol. 1

by Victor Klemperer

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1999
PAPER
519 PAGES

The diaries of a Jewish professor of Romance languages in Dresden who lost his position under the Nazis but managed to survive the war. This second volume in the two-volume series is also available (GER89). (GER88, $18.00)

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1941-1945, Vol. 2

by Victor Klemperer

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2001
PAPER
556 PAGES

The diaries of a Dresden professor of Roman languages who, being Jewish, lost his position under the Nazis but managed to survive the war in Dresden. The first volume in the two-volume series is also available (GER88). (GER89, $18.00)

Into the Teeth of the Tiger

by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

HISTORY
1997
PAPER
272 PAGES

The memoirs of a World War II pilot in Asia. (ASA39, $17.95)

King Rat

by James Clavell

LITERATURE
1962
PAPER
479 PAGES

The first in Clavell's acclaimed Asia series, this book describes the life of a POW in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II, richly evocative of its setting (ASA03, $8.99)

Kingdom of Auschwitz

by Otto Friedrich

HISTORY
1994
PAPER
128 PAGES

Otto Friedrich's slim book is an intensely personal account of the infamous Auschwitz death camp. He covers the entire history of Auschwitz in short chapters punctuated with eyewitness accounts and testimonies. (PLD04, $11.00)

Love and War in the Apennines

by Eric Newby

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2008
PAPER
276 PAGES

This unassuming memoir of remarkable wartime adventures in German-occupied WWII Italy is perhaps Newby's best book. Escaping a POW camp, he takes refuge with Italian families who hide him from advancing German forces. It's here that he meets Wanda, the love of his life. They marry in 1946. (ITL171, $14.99)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

HISTORY
1995
PAPER
886 PAGES

From the discovery of the nucleus to the making of atomic bomb, this Pulitzer Prize winning book tackles the people, discoveries and places of the Atomic Age in spellbinding detail. (USW231, $21.00)

Memoirs of the Second World War, An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War With an Epilogue by the Author on

by Winston, Sir Churchill

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1991
PAPER
1065 PAGES

Churchill's own abridgment of his 6-volume memoir is a manageable, sweeping account of World War II from the perspective of one of its major players. (WAR131, $29.95)

Midway, The Battle that Doomed Japan

by Mitsuo Fuchida

HISTORY
2001
PAPER
224 PAGES

A groundbreaking account of the Battle of Midway told from the Japanese perspective. (HWI58, $22.95)

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER
721 PAGES

The 50th anniversary edition of Mailer's astonishing novel of a platoon fighting for the fictional Japanese held island of Anopopei. A rifleman in the Pacific during the war, Mailer brings documentary detail to the novel, published when he was but 25 and an immediate critical and commercial success. (JPN313, $19.00)

Night

by Elie Wiesel | Marion Wiesel

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2006
PAPER
109 PAGES

An moving account of a Jewish boy's terrifying experience during the Holocaust. (EUR79, $9.95)

Outwitting the Gestapo

by Lucie Aubrac

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1993
PAPER

A chronicle of two dramatic years in the French Resistance in Lyon under Gestapo occupation. (FRN352, $15.95)

Overlord, D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

by Max Hastings

HISTORY
1985
PAPER
368 PAGES

A readable and well researched account of "Operation Overlord," the name given to the Allied Invasion of Europe. (WAR20, $16.95)

The Pacific

by Hugh Ambrose

HISTORY
2010
HARD COVER
489 PAGES

This companion to the HBO miniseries focuses on the stories of five U.S. armed servicemen who fought the key battles against Japan during World War II, from Bataan and Midway to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. (PAC229, $26.95)

Pacific Legacy, Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific

by Rex Alan Smith

HISTORY
2002
HARD COVER
312 PAGES

A treasure trove of archival and modern photographs, this oversize book explores the battle sites of World War II in the Pacific, pairing images with essays, many taken directly from eyewitness accounts. (PAC144, $65.00)

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

LITERATURE
1995
PAPER
256 PAGES

The acclaimed novel based on the author's own experiences in World War II Poland. The often disturbing account of a young Jewish boy's journey through rural Poland as he tries to evade everyone from SS officers to anti-Semitic Polish peasants will leave an indelible impression. (PLD07, $14.00)

Pearl Harbor Ghosts, The Legacy of December 7, 1941

by Thurston Clarke

HISTORY
2001
PAPER
400 PAGES

A well-researched and evocative look at the bombing of Pearl Harbor by a veteran travel writer. Clarke compares and contrasts the social life and culture of Hawaii on the day of the bombing and sixty years later, enumerating the changes wrought by WWII. (HWI68, $19.00)

Pegasus Bridge

by Stephen Ambrose

HISTORY
1988
PAPER
400 PAGES

Detailed and engrossing, this volume tells of the British airborne troops whose attack on German defense forces on June 6, 1944, opened the door for the Allied invasion of Normandy. (WAR18, $14.00)

Prague in Danger

by Peter Demetz

HISTORY
2009
PAPER
288 PAGES
COMING IN JUNE

Read this memoir for its prose and portrait of Prague during a pivotal time. Peter Demetz adroitly combines history, biography and memoir is this page-turning portrait of his beloved city during the War. Demetz (Prague in Black and Gold) vividly chronicles the lives of his young friends family, film, poetry, theater and music, terror and resistance from 1939-45, the six years Prague was under Nazi occupation. (CZH84, $15.00)

The Promise

by Pearl S. Buck

LITERATURE
1997
PAPER
256 PAGES

A novel set in China and Burma during World War II, focused around a group of Chinese soldiers sent to rescue a British-American platoon. (CHN660, $11.95)

The Reader

by Bernhard Schlink | Carol Brown Janeway

LITERATURE
1999
PAPER
218 PAGES

The story of a man who discovers a terrible secret about his past lover who he finds as a defendant at a trial about Germany's Nazi past. (GER68, $13.95)

Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

by Israel Gutman

HISTORY
1998
PAPER
277 PAGES

An account of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi control, gleaned from the author's first-hand experience. He also places the ghetto experience in the context of Jewish history in general. (PLD17, $19.95)

The Rising Tide, A Novel of the Second World War

by Jeff Shaara

LITERATURE
2006
HARD COVER
672 PAGES

From the author of Gods and Generals comes this piece of historical fiction set during World War II in the Pacific, North Africa and throughout Europe, whose main characters are Hitler, Mussolini, Eisenhower and Churchill. (EUR235, $27.95)

The Rock of Anzio: From Sicily to Dachau, A History of the 45th Infantry Division

by Flint Whitlock

HISTORY
2005
PAPER
496 PAGES

An in-depth history of a famous WWII national guard unit that hailed from the southwest, covering both the bloody invasion at Anzio and the controversial liberation of Dachau, recommended for military buffs only. (ITL520, $22.00)

Schindler's List

by Thomas Keneally

LITERATURE
1993
PAPER
400 PAGES

A landmark in literature about the Holocaust, this is the compelling story of the transformation of a Nazi tycoon and his rescue of 1,300 Jews from the concentration camps near Plaszow. (GER51, $16.00)

The Second World War

by John Keegan

HISTORY
2005
PAPER
624 PAGES

A masterfully written, thematically arranged history of the Second World War. (WAR44, $25.00)

The Second World War, A Short History

by R.A.C. Parker

HISTORY
2002
PAPER
330 PAGES

An elegant, brisk survey of the war and its social, political and economic ramifications. (WAR54, $19.95)

The Shetland Bus, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure

by David Howarth

HISTORY
2008
PAPER
236 PAGES

The little-known story of a fleet of fishing boats that regularly journeyed across treacherous waters from the Shetland Islands to Norway, to bring relief and fortifications to Norwegians under Nazi attack. (NOR26, $16.95)

Shosha

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

LITERATURE
1996
PAPER

A powerful novel of love set in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw as World War II erupts around the protagonists. (PLD18, $16.00)

Six Armies in Normandy, From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

by John Keegan

HISTORY
1994
PAPER
365 PAGES

A provocative account of the invasion of Normandy and the battles that proceeded it. Keegan's intense descriptions of the war in northern France are accompanied by perceptive analysis of the military tactics that resulted in Allied victory. (FRN118, $17.00)

The Sledge Patrol, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory

by David Howarth

HISTORY
2008
PAPER
224 PAGES

An engrossing true-life adventure story of Danish and Norwegian hunters evading Nazi troops across the hostile terrain of Greenland. (ARC112, $16.95)

A Small Death in Lisbon

by Robert Wilson

MYSTERY
2002
PAPER
440 PAGES

Set in Lisbon in 1941 and 1999, this award-winning mystery intertwines a present day murder, some unsavory arms production, and smuggling in Nazi Germany. Be warned, there are some graphic passages dealing with the horrors of war and concentration camps. (PGL22, $7.99)

The Small Woman

by Alan Burgess

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1996
HARD COVER
221 PAGES

A biography of the missionary Gladys Aylward. (CHN77, $35.95)

The Snow Goose

by Paul Gallico

LITERATURE
1941
HARD COVER
60 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A handsome hardcover edition of Gallico's poignant tale of innocence and longing set in Word War II England. (BRD20, $19.95)

Song of the Exile

by Kiana Davenport

LITERATURE
1999
PAPER
384 PAGES

This novel follows the fate two lovers in Hawaii, New Orleans and Paris -- interweaving much of the history and flavor of Hawaii from the war to statehood in 1953. (HWI51, $14.95)

Soviet Blitzkrieg, The Battle for White Russia, 1944

by Walter S. Dunn

HISTORY
2008
PAPER
252 PAGES

A history of the Russian campaign to regain control of Belarus from the Germans in 1944. (RUS121, $17.95)

The Spirit of Prague

by Ivan Klima | Paul Wilson

HISTORY
1995
PAPER
188 PAGES

The renowned Czech novelist charts the history and culture of Prague from World War II to the Velvet Revolution in these brilliant essays. (CZH05, $16.95)

Stones in Water

by Donna Jo Napoli

LITERATURE
1999
PAPER
224 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

A Venetian gondolier's son and two friends, one Jewish, are taken by Nazi soldiers in this well-researched, suspenseful tale for ages 10-14. (ITA41, $5.99)

The Svalbard Archipelago

by P.J. Capelotti

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2000
PAPER
180 PAGES

A reprint of a WWII-era report on Spitsbergen by U.S. intelligence, covering the geography, history and geo-politics of the archipelago. With 63 photographs, maps, glossary, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, and an index. (ARC91, $49.95)

Target: Pearl Harbor

by Michael Slackman

HISTORY
1990
PAPER
354 PAGES

Great background on Pearl Harbor for anyone planning to visit Honolulu. (HWI22, $24.00)

Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, Volume 2)

by Winston S. Churchill

HISTORY
1986
PAPER
683 PAGES

An account of the Battle of Britain from Winston Churchill himself. (WAR29, $20.00)

The Thin Red Line

by James Jones

LITERATURE
1998
PAPER
528 PAGES

Philosophical, lyrical and brutal in its depiction of war, James's celebrated novel of the boys from C-Company and the battle for Guadalcanal captures the grit and gore of WWII in the Pacific. (PAC145, $17.00)

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

by Tadeusz Borowski | Barbara Vedder | Jan Kott

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1992
PAPER
180 PAGES

A series of uninflected, austere stories, published in Polish after WWII -- and drawn from the author's experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau from 1943 to 1945. (GER95, $15.00)

The Thousand-Mile War, World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians

by Brian Garfield

HISTORY
1996
PAPER
456 PAGES

A gripping account of the Aleutian Islands Campaign (1942-43), originally published in 1969. Many of the islands, depicted in black-and-white photographs, are littered with WWII era runways, huts and other relics. (ALA114, $24.95)

Thunder Out of China

by Theodore H. White | Annalee Jacoby | Harrison Salisbury

HISTORY
1980
PAPER
331 PAGES

A classic account of the Chinese Revolution. (CHN113, $16.50)

A Time for Trumpets, The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge

by Charles B. MacDonald

HISTORY
1997
PAPER
720 PAGES

A massive, authoritative history of the Battle of the Bulge. (WAR23, $19.99)

The Tin Drum

by Gunter Grass

LITERATURE
2010
PAPER
582 PAGES

Probably the best German novel written since the end of World War II, this is the surreal story of a mute dwarf named Oskar who lives through Nazi Germany and finds himself in a mental institution. (GER33, $15.95)

To Destroy a City, Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War II

by Herman Knell

HISTORY
2003
HARD COVER
464 PAGES

A thoughtful account of the purpose and results of strategic bombing in war, written by a German historian who witnessed the destruction of his hometown of Wurtzberg at the end of World War II. (WAR110, $32.50)

A Traveler's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

by Carl Shilleto | Mike Tolhurst

GUIDEBOOK
2004
PAPER
192 PAGES

A compact guide to Normandy's WWII battlefields, memorials, sites and cemeteries. (FRN330, $14.95)

Tzili, The Story of a Life

by Aharon Appelfeld | Dalya Bilu

LITERATURE
1996
PAPER
192 PAGES

The moving story of a young Jewish girl whose family accidentally leaves her behind when they flee Poland. Like Tzili, the author, is a Holocaust survivor. (PLD13, $12.00)

Under the Blood Red Sun

by Graham Salisbury

LITERATURE
1995
PAPER
246 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This novel set on Oahu immediately before, during and after the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor features as its protagonist a 13-year-old Japanese-American boy. The book is a sensitive treatment of a grave collision of cul-tures, geared for kids ages 9 to 12. (HWI79, $6.99)

Unsung Heroes of World War II, The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers

by Deanne Durrett

HISTORY
2009
PAPER
136 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

Weaving Navajo history and culture, battlefield accounts and archival photos, Durrett reveals the remarkable individuals behind the only battlefield code that Japan never deciphered. (WAR133, $14.95)

Vichy France and the Jews

by Robert O. Paxton | Michael Robert Marrus

HISTORY
1995
PAPER
432 PAGES

An excellent, scholarly history of World War II-era France, an especially of Nazi collaboration by the Vichy government. The authors, after mapping events, ask, "Why did this happen?" (FRN291, $29.95)

War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

by Iris Origo | Denis Mack Smith

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1995
PAPER
239 PAGES

A diary of day-to-day heroism and fortitude. The author and her family take children, deserters, escaped prisoners, and Jews fleeing the advancing Germans into their home in Tuscany. (ITL219, $14.95)

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

by John W. Dower

HISTORY
1987
PAPER
416 PAGES

Now in paperback, this monumental history has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important books ever written about World War II in the Pacific". 20 pages of illustrations. (PAC149, $18.95)

The War, An Intimate History, 1941-1945

by Ken Burns | Geoffrey C. Ward

HISTORY
2010
PAPER
480 PAGES

The companion book to the PBS series chronicling the American experience of World War II both at home and on the battlefields, with more than 400 maps, photos and illustrations. (WAR151, $30.00)

Wartime, Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

by Paul Fussell

HISTORY
1990
PAPER
352 PAGES

In this moving history, Fussell writes of British and American soldiers during World War II. (WAR48, $19.99)

We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

by Elizabeth M. Norman

HISTORY
2000
PAPER
352 PAGES

A tribute to the group of nurses that gave care to wounded soldiers in the jungles of Bataan during World War II. (SEA20, $16.00)

We Die Alone

by David Howarth

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
208 PAGES

Howarth's riveting account of courage, determination and valor in Nazi-occupied Norway follows Jan Baalrud's extraordinary escape by ski across the Lyngen Alps. (NOR14, $16.95)

Winston Spencer Churchill, The Last Lion: Alone, 1932-1940

by William Manchester

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1989
PAPER
684 PAGES

This second volume in the fascinating three-part biography of Winston Churchill illuminates the character of one of the largest figures of our time. War clouds had once again gathered, and the storm of World War II was beginning. (GBR78, $23.00)

The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland, 1939-1940

by Eloise Engle | Lauri Paananen

HISTORY
1992
PAPER
176 PAGES

The story of the 105-day campaign against Finland in the early days of WWII. This book displays how the Finns, though vastly outnumbered, showed great ingenuity in the field of battle. (SCN20, $19.95)

With the Old Breed, At Peleliu and Okinawa

by E. B. Sledge

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2007
PAPER
353 PAGES

Sledge, a former member of the First Marine Division, gives a riveting first hand account of two major battles of WWII in the Pacific. (PAC230, $7.99)

A Woman in Amber

by Agate Nesaule

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1997
PAPER
280 PAGES

In this American Book Award-winning memoir, Nesaule recounts the horrors she witnessed and experienced as a young girl during World War II in Latvia. A gripping testimony of survival. (RUS30, $16.00)

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