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Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese Best Price: $26.00 The fall of Singapore and the brilliant victories achieved since the start of the war mean we... | U-Boat Ace: The Story of Wolfgang Luth (Bluejacket Books) Best Price: $10.25 Uboat Ace is a excellent book on Submarine warfare in WWII. While you may not like Wolfganf Luff... | The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Comprehensive History of the Holocaust) Best Price: $10.75 I gave this book 5 stars not because it is an easy read and certainly not because books... | Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika Best Price: $6.15 This book is an autobiography of a young man of the Hitler Youth organization and explains the... | Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall Best Price: $1.95 I first read this book shortly after I had left the military, having served some seven years,... |
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Guadalcanal: The U.S. Marines in World War II: A Pictorial Tribute Best Price: $22.24 An excellent book about the pivotal point in the US crusade across the pacific. An easy read... | The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Full Story of How 76 Allied Officers Carried Out World War II's Most Remarkable Mass Escape Best Price: $5.75 This is a truly fascinating story. Unfortunately the author leaves out so much. For example, how... | Kingtiger Heavy Tank 1942-45 (New Vanguard) Best Price: $7.28 When the casual reader buys a Vanguard book, it's for a general history -- some notes on... | D-Day with the Screaming Eagles Best Price: $3.89 George is my father's uncle. He began writing this book a LONG time ago, and the results are... | Sinking the Rising Sun: Dog Fighting & Dive Bombing in World War II: A Navy Fighter Pilot's Story Best Price: $16.63 The book is well written, but the author is more interested in telling about parties in Hawaii... |
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Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen Best Price: $14.46 I have only read half of the book to date. My review based on what I read so far is that the... | Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 Best Price: $13.08 A comprehensive story of a less well known battlefield of World War II. Some confusion over the... | Pearl Harbor Ghosts : The Legacy of December 7, 1941 Best Price: $2.94 BOOK REVIEW
Among the many attempts to piggyback on the movie "Pearl Harbor," this... | Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of WWII's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops Best Price: $5.75 Climb To Conquer: The Untold Story of World War II's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops is an... | Island of Terror: Battle of Iwo Jima (Graphic History) Best Price: $0.30 My 14 year old son absolutely loves these types of books! He is somewhat of a history buff with... |
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Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor Best Price: $15.00 In this and in his previous book, War Plan Orange, Ed Miller takes dull and mundane subjects and... | Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance Best Price: $30.00 The author of this book, Joachim Fest, is one of the better know of the German World War 2... | My Private War: Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW's Journey Best Price: $11.95 My Private War gives another dimension to the books about WW2 as well as the movies Band of... | The Stephen Ambrose World War II Audio Collection Best Price: $24.95 My husband loves this and the narration is such that even I enjoy listening to it. | The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II Best Price: $21.94 This is a superbly written and spellbounding book that offers tremendously unique insight into... |
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At Ease: Navy Men of World War II Best Price: $21.84 It is unbelievable for someone 40 or under to realize that these pictures were not seen as... | Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) Best Price: $14.48 Masuda, his family and friends suffer the humiliation and shame of being forced into camps. Then... | The Girl with the White Flag Best Price: $6.55 Excellent moving tale of young girl's survival during battle of okinawa. An excellent book for... | The Combat History of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503 in World War II Best Price: $18.39 This book tells, with firsthand accounts as well as numerous, never-seen-before photographs, the... | Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em: The Mysterious Loss of the WWII Submarine USS Gudgeon Best Price: $15.10 Absolutely great book! Just finsihed it today and I would like to commend Mike Ostlund for the... |
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Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat Best Price: $10.02 I loved this book and its many stories from the guys who were there. The Iwo Jima section was... | The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima Best Price: $7.50 The Last Lieutenant is an epic tribute to a brave man thrust into the hell of Iwo Jima. This... | Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II Best Price: $15.96 This book is an outstanding read! I'm only 4/10 of the way through it but I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN! I... | Preserving Memory Best Price: $14.00 A Highly informative and yet very readable account of the building of the Holocaust Museum in... | Fighting Men of World War II, Volume I: Axis Forces--Uniforms, Equipment, and Weapons (Fighting Men of World War II) Best Price: $10.98 There's much on Germans of WWII of their uniforms and equipment but little of their allies.
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The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath Best Price: $33.76 Crowe's book is the best overall textbook on the market today for college classes on the... | Battleship Oklahoma BB-37 Best Price: $10.95 We bought this book because we both love history, and had never known much about the USS... | A Tour of the Bulge Battlefield Best Price: $15.01 My Father (a WWII veteran) and I made an extraordinary trip with Cavanagh through the Ardennes... | Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943 Best Price: $3.98 I don't propose to match the detail or eloquence of the nearly(?) professional reviews already... | Kriegsmarine Coastal Forces (New Vanguard) Best Price: $12.21 Despite the popularity of the U-boats and larger surface vessels like the Bismarck and the ... |
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In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen Best Price: $25.70 "In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen" may be the most amazing, gripping... | World War II Best Price: $11.15 This book is a great source of information on World War II. It provides detailed information on... | The American St. Nick Best Price: $7.50 This well written account by Peter Lion will touch your heart as you follow the story of GI's in... | Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima Best Price: $1.91 This book should be mandatory reading for Marines in training. Actually, it should be mandatory... | Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 Best Price: $12.89 The Japanese rampage in the Pacific and the initial defeat of both the American and British... |
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A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces Best Price: $3.87 I have been very interested in all publications regarding the Special Forces, particularly as a... | Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris Best Price: $10.00 Kershaw undertakes three major tasks in the first volume of this outstanding biography. The... | Rangers in World War II Best Price: $4.37 This book appears to be very well researched. Many of the accounts are both interesting and... | ALBUM OF THE DAMNED: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE THIRD REICH Best Price: $29.92 When I first saw an ad for "Album of the Damned..." I immediately went to Amazon to... | ALBUM OF THE DAMNED: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE THIRD REICH Best Price: $29.92 When I first saw an ad for "Album of the Damned..." I immediately went to Amazon to... |
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Modelling the Tiger I (Osprey Modelling) Best Price: $11.56 Owning more than my share of the Osprey Modelling series, this is one of their better efforts.... | Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944; Revised Best Price: $6.00 This book is not your typical account of the D-Day invasion and battles. Keegan initially... | The Type VII U-Boat (Anatomy of the Ship) Best Price: $28.21 This volume illustrates in fairly exquisite detail the inner workings and fittings for the Type... | The Economics of World War II : Six Great Powers in International Comparison (Studies in Macroeconomic History) Best Price: $29.69 Too technical for the non-economist reader. Also, the coverage of the six countries is vastly... | The Sergeant in the Snow Best Price: $11.25 A slightly different perspective makes this novella unique. The thread of a soldier on the... |
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The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (Cambridge Perspectives in History) Best Price: $8.48 It was easy to read - maybe too easy. I was expecting a more detailed and better organised book.... | The Lost Squadron: A Fleet of Warplanes Locked in Ice for Fifty Years Best Price: $11.94 In the early months of the US's involvment in WW2, a squadron of P38 Lightnings and 2 B17... | A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies Best Price: $22.40 The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forever changed the world landscape. The Nuclear... | Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 Best Price: $14.81 A long time ago, there were journalists who knew what their jobs were and weren't, and Bill... | |