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	Apartment in Athens • Glenway Wescott • LITERATURE • Glenwood Weskit's 1945 novel about a couple living in Athens during the Nazi Occupation. (GRE198, $12.95)
	At Dawn We Slept, The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor • Gordon W. Prange • HISTORY • A massive account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (HWI183, $22.00)
	Atomic Spaces, Living on the Manhattan Project • Peter Bacon Hales • HISTORY • How American culture grew out of the atomic age. (USW425, $29.00)
	The Avengers, A Jewish War Story • Rich Cohen • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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, $14.95)
	Badenheim 1939 • Aharon Appelfeld • Dalya Bilu • LITERATURE • A haunting tale of the daily life of well-to-do and unsuspecting Jewish vacationers at a fictional Ausrian resort on the eve of the holocaust. (AST35, $12.95)
	The Battle of Britain, The Myth and Reality • Richard Overy • HISTORY • Renowned war historian Richard Overy's reassessment of the Battle of Britain. (WAR28, $13.95)
	Battle of Normandy 1944 Map • Michelin Travel Publications • A reproduction of a 1947 map of Normandy showing the main sites of the summer 1944 battle. (FRN264, $12.95)
	Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945 • Danny S. Parker • HISTORY • A focused, fact-heavy survey of the events surrounding the Battle of the Bulge. (WAR25, $24.95)
	The Bitter Woods • John S.D. Eisenhower • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • An enthralling narrative history of the Battle of the Bulge. (WAR24, $22.95)
	A Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It • Gerald Astor • HISTORY • A harrowing account of the Battle of the Bulge. (WAR88, $7.50)
	A Bridge Too Far • Cornelius Ryan • HISTORY • 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, $18.00)
	Brotherhood of the Bomb • Greg Herken • HISTORY • A study of the trio of physicists responsible for creating the atomic bomb. (USW424, $30.00)
	The Burma Road, The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II • Donovan Webster • HISTORY • 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, $14.95)
	The Capture of Attu, A World War II Battle As Told by the Men Who Fought There • Robert J. Mitchell • Sewell T. Tying • Nelson L. Drummond • HISTORY • One of the lesser known battles of World War II. (ALA149, $16.95)
	Christ Stopped at Eboli, The Story of a Year • Carlo Levi • Frances Frenaye • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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, $14.00)
	Citizen Soldiers • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • Ambrose's account of the battles fought in the year between D-Day and the German surrender. (WAR19, $18.00)
	The Clown • Heinrich Boll • LITERATURE • In this famous short novel, Boll draws a revealing portrait of German society under Hitler and in the post-war years through the eyes of an artist. (GER32, $13.95)
	Codebreakers, the Inside Story of Bletchley Park • Alan Stripp • F.H. Hinsley • HISTORY • Memoirs of life in the British code-cracking department during World War II. (WAR46, $19.95)
	Collins Atlas of World War II • John Keegan • HISTORY • With 200 maps, photographs and accompanying essays by the great historian John keegan on the war, the military campaigns, commanders, tactics and context. (WAR126, $19.95)
	The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941 • Michael Beschloss • HISTORY • A bestselling, popular history of the politics and diplomacy among Allied leaders leading up to the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. (GER164, $15.00)
	D-Day June 6, 1944, The Climactic Battle of World War II • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • Written by the best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, this well researched book draws together interviews and recent government documents to tell the gripping tale of June 6, 1944. It's a comprehensive account of D-Day. With 32 pages of photos and eight maps. (FRN40, $18.00)
	A Dark and Bloody Ground, The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 • Edward G. Miller • HISTORY • The well documented story of battles in the Hurtgen Forest. (WAR26, $32.95)
	Dawn of D-Day: These Men Were There, June 6, 1944 • David Howarth • HISTORY • Howarth weaves interviews and eyewitness reports to recreate the atmosphere, horror and confusion of the assault on Normandy int his spellbinding account, first published in 1959. (FRN768, $14.95)
	Defiance, The Bielski Partisans • Nechama Tec • HISTORY • The story of Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut. (RUS120, $26.75)
	The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition • Anne Frank • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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, $12.95)
	Doomed at the Start, American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942 • William H. Bartsch • HISTORY • The little-known story of the defeat of American pursuit pilots in the Philippines. (PLP25, $29.95)
	Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 • Frederick Taylor • HISTORY • A re-evaluation of the Allied firebombing of Dresden, one of the most destructive, and still controversial, air campaigns of WWII. (GER145, $15.95)
	Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII • John W. Dower • HISTORY • 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, $18.95)
	The Endless Steppe, Growing Up in Siberia • Esther Hautzig • Jean-Francois Podevin • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • YOUNG ADULTS • The story of a girl, mother and grandmother shipped to a forced labor camp in Siberia. (SIB07, $5.99)
	Everything is Illuminated • Jonathan Safran Foer • LITERATURE • 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, $13.95)
	The Finest Hour, The Battle of Britain • Phil Craig • Tim Clayton • HISTORY • A history of the air war over Britain in 1940. (WAR49, $16.95)
	Flags of Our Fathers • James Bradley • HISTORY • A compelling portrait of the young men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, five marines and a navy corpsman. (PAC77, $14.00)
	The Forgotten War, A Pictorial History of World War II in Alaska and Northwestern Canada, Vol. 2 • Stan B. Cohen • HISTORY • A concise, illustrated history of Alaska during World War II, with much of the action taking place on the Aleutian Islands. (ALA150, $14.95)
	From Here to Eternity • James Jones • LITERATURE • 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)
	From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day, the American Armed Forces in World War II • D. Clayton James • HISTORY • A clear and concise introduction to the strategy, personalities and campaigns of World War II. (WAR51, $10.95)
	Ghost Soldiers, The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission • Hampton Sides • HISTORY • A well-told popular history of a plan to liberate American soldiers in the Philippines. (PLP23, $29.95)
	Graveyards of the Pacific, From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll • Robert D. Ballard • Michael Hamilton Morgan • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • 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 • Richard Frank • HISTORY • 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 • John Hersey • HISTORY • Never sensational, this classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey, first published in 1946, puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians. (JPN20, $6.95)
	A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 • Stanley G. Payne • HISTORY • A schoalrly, comprehensive history with a focus on Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. (EUR132, $24.95)
	Hitler and the Holocaust • Robert S. Wistrich • HISTORY • 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, $13.95)
	Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, January 1933 • Henry Ashby Turner • HISTORY • An examination of the appointment of Hitler as German chancellor. (GER126, $16.00)
	Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust • Daniel Jonah Goldhagen • HISTORY • The controversial study of what ordinary German citizens did -- and did not do -- in reaction to the escalating horrors of WWII. (GER06, $17.95)
	I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, Vol. 1 • Victor Klemperer • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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 is the first volume in a two-volume series. (GER88, $16.95)
	I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1941-1945, Vol. 2 • Victor Klemperer • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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. This is the second volume in a two-volume series. (GER89, $15.95)
	Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat • Patrick K. O'Donnell • HISTORY • A visceral portrait of the Pacific campaigns of World War II, drawn from the oral accounts of veterans. These detailed, and often startling, testimonies offer a glimpse into the experiences of individual soldiers. (PAC143, $15.00)
	Into the Teeth of the Tiger • Donald S. Lopez Jr. • HISTORY • The memoirs of a World War II pilot in Asia. (ASA39, $17.95)
	Jakob the Liar • Jurek Becker • Leila Vennewitz • LITERATURE • First published in Germany in 1969, this novel is considered one of the great contributions to Holocaust literature. (GER93, $13.00)
	King Rat • James Clavell • LITERATURE • 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, $7.99)
	Kingdom of Auschwitz • Otto Friedrich • HISTORY • Otto Friedrich's slim book is an intensely personal account of the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The entire history of Auschwitz is covered in short chapters punctuated with eyewitness accounts and testimonies. (PLD04, $11.00)
	Love and War in the Apennines • Eric Newby • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN JULY • Newby's flight from the Germans in occupied Italy during World War II. The author had lived in Italy through childhood during the interwar period, and since has made his home there. (ITL171, $14.99)
	Lying with the Enemy • Tim Binding • LITERATURE • A murder mystery set on the island of Guernsey during the German occupation. (GBR204, $12.95)
	The Making of the Atomic Bomb • Richard Rhodes • HISTORY • 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, $20.00)
	The Man in the Box • Thomas Moran • LITERATURE • A story of a gentile family in a small Austrian town hiding a Jew during World War II, told through the eyes of an adolescent boy. (AST41, $12.00)
	Midway, The Battle that Doomed Japan • Mitsuo Fuchida • HISTORY • A groundbreaking account of the Battle of Midway told from the Japanese perspective. (HWI58, $19.95)
	The Naked and the Dead • Norman Mailer • LITERATURE • 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, $16.00)
	Night • Elie Wiesel • Marion Wiesel • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An moving account of a Jewish boy's terrifying experience during the Holocaust. (EUR79, $9.00)
	Number the Stars • Lois Lowry • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • Set in German-occupied Copenhagen, this is the fictionalized account of 10-year-old Annemarie Johanneson and her struggle to help her Jewish friend to safety. Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1990, it is recommended for ages 9-12. (DMK11, $6.99)
	Outwitting the Gestapo • Lucie Aubrac • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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 • Max Hastings • HISTORY • A readable and well researched account of "Operation Overlord," the name given to the Allied Invasion of Europe. (WAR20, $22.95)
	Pacific Legacy, Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific • Rex Alan Smith • HISTORY • 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 • Jerzy Kosinski • LITERATURE • 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 tires to evade everyone from SS officers to Anti-Semitic Polish peasants will leave an indelible impression. (PLD07, $13.00)
	Patton and the Battle of the Bulge • Michael Green • Gladys Green • HISTORY • A short history of the Allied victory at the Battle of the Bulge. (WAR87, $19.95)
	Pearl Harbor Commemorative Map • National Geographic • A three-dimensional relief map, featuring archival photographs, short descriptions of events, and locations of key ships, created for the 60th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. (HWI70, $17.95)
	Pearl Harbor Ghosts, The Legacy of December 7, 1941 • Thurston Clarke • HISTORY • 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 • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • 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, $13.00)
	The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II • Iris Chang • HISTORY • Chang's account of the 1937 massacre of an estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese is related with honesty and interspersed with shocking statistics. (CHN272, $16.00)
	The Reader • Bernhard Schlink • Carol Brown Janeway • LITERATURE • 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, $12.95)
	Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories • Ronald J. Drez • David Eisenhower • HISTORY • YOUNG ADULTS • An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information. (USA96, $17.95)
	Remember Pearl Harbor • Thomas B. Allen • HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • Historic photographs and survivor accounts are incorporated into this short commemoration of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, geared for middle school children. (HWI71, $19.95)
	Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising • Israel Gutman • HISTORY • 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, $16.95)
	The Rising Tide, A Novel of the Second World War • Jeff Shaara • LITERATURE • 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 • Flint Whitlock • HISTORY • An in-deth history of a famous WWII national guard unit that hailed from the southwest, covering both the bloody invasion at Anzio and the contoversial liberation of Dachau, recommended for military buffs only. (ITL520, $22.00)
	Saipan, The War Diary of John Ciardi • John Ciardi • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A personal document of the war in the Pacific as seen by an American poet, written on the island of Saipan where he was stationed as a gunner. (PAC113, $16.95)
	Schindler's List • Thomas Keneally • LITERATURE • 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, $15.00)
	The Second World War • John Keegan • HISTORY • A masterfully written, thematically arranged history of the Second World War. (WAR44, $22.00)
	The Second World War, A Short History • R.A.C. Parker • HISTORY • 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 • David Howarth • HISTORY • The little-known World War II story of a fleet of fishing boats that made regular journeys across treacherous waters from the Shetland Islands to Norway, in order to bring relief and fortifications to Norwegians weathering Nazi attacks. (NOR26, $16.95)
	Shosha • Isaac Bashevis Singer • LITERATURE • A powerful novel of love set in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw as World War II erupts around the protagonists. (PLD18, $15.00)
	Sicily, Salerno, Anzio: January 1943 to June 1944 • Samuel Eliot Morison • HISTORY • Volume 9 of Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. (ITL519, $24.95)
	Sisterhood of Spies, The Women of the OSS • Elizabeth McIntosh • HISTORY • The story of the unlikely spies whose invaluable espionage helped the Allies to victory in World War II. Real life James Bonds, these educated, upper-class women embarked on dangerous missions behind enemy lines. (SPY02, $7.99)
	Six Armies in Normandy, From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris • John Keegan • HISTORY • 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, $16.00)
	The Sledge Patrol, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory • David Howarth • HISTORY • 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 • Robert Wilson • MYSTERY • Set in Lisbon in 1941 and 1999, this award-winning mystery intertwines a present day murder mystery and 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 • Alan Burgess • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of the missionary Gladys Aylward. (CHN77, $35.95)
	The Snow Goose • Paul Gallico • LITERATURE • 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 • Kiana Davenport • LITERATURE • 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 • Walter S. Dunn • HISTORY • A history of the Russian campaign to regain control of Belarus from the Germans in 1944. (RUS121, $55.00)
	The Svalbard Archipelago • P.J. Capelotti • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 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 index. (ARC91, $49.95)
	Target: Pearl Harbor • Michael Slackman • HISTORY • Great background on Pearl Harbor for anyone planning to visit Honolulu. (HWI22, $23.00)
	Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, Volume 2) • Winston S. Churchill • HISTORY • An account of the Battle of Britain from Winston Churchill himself. (WAR29, $19.00)
	The Thin Red Line • James Jones • LITERATURE • 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, $13.00)
	This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen • Tadeusz Borowski • Barbara Vedder • Jan Kott • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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, $14.00)
	The Thousand-Mile War, World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians • Brian Garfield • HISTORY • A gripping account of the Aleutian Island 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 • Theodore H. White • Annalee Jacoby • Harrison Salisbury • HISTORY • A classic account of the Chinese Revolution. (CHN113, $16.50)
	A Time for Trumpets, The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge • Charles B. MacDonald • HISTORY • A massive, authoritative history of the Battle of the Bulge. (WAR23, $19.95)
	The Tin Drum • Gunter Grass • LITERATURE • 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 • Herman Knell • HISTORY • 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 • Carl Shilleto • Mike Tolhurst • GUIDEBOOK • A compact guide to Normandy's WWII battlefields, memorials, sites and cemeteries. (FRN330, $14.95)
	Tzili, The Story of a Life • Aharon Appelfeld • Dalya Bilu • LITERATURE • 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 • Graham Salisbury • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • A novel set on Oahu immediately before, during and after the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, featuring as its protagonist, a 13-year-old Japanese-American boy. The book is a sensitive treatment of a grave collision of cultures, geared for kids ages 9 to 12. (HWI79, $6.50)
	Vichy France and the Jews • Robert O. Paxton • Michael Robert Marrus • HISTORY • 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, $26.95)
	War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 • Iris Origo • Denis Mack Smith • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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 Abruzzo. (ITL219, $14.95)
	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War • John W. Dower • HISTORY • (PAC149, $16.95)
	Wartime, Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War • Paul Fussell • HISTORY • In this moving history, Fussell writes of British and American soldiers during World War II. (WAR48, $18.95)
	We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese • Elizabeth M. Norman • HISTORY • A tribute to the group of nurses that gave care to wounded soldiers in the jungles of Bataan during World War II. (SEA20, $14.95)
	We Die Alone, A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance • David Howarth • Stephen Ambrose • EXPLORATION • A 1955 account of courage, determination and valor in Nazi-occupied Norway in which Jan Baalrud escapes across the Lyngen Alps. (NOR14, $16.95)
	Winston Spencer Churchill, The Last Lion: Alone, 1932-1940 • William Manchester • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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 • Eloise Engle • Lauri Paananen • HISTORY • 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)
	A Woman in Amber, Healing the Trauma of War and Exile • Agate Nesaule • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this American Book Award-winning memoir, a woman tells the powerful story of the horrors she witnessed and experienced as a young girl during World War II in Latvia. It is ultimately a testimony to survival. (RUS30, $15.00)

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