Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

Describes how members of five prominent wine-making families from Burgundy, Alsace, the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, and Champagne risked their lives to protect their most precious wines from Nazi plunder during World War II. 25,000 first printing.

Wine and War

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Frances Liardet

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Utah

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Must Be Brave comes a new sweeping historical novel about one couple’s journey through war, love, and loss, and how the people we love never really leave us. 1942, Alexandria, Egypt. Covered in dust, Yvette and James hold hands for the first time as bombs explode above them. As the war rages on, they will find their way back to each other time and again, their love a beacon for their survival. After the war, their happiness takes root in England and blossoms, until a tragic event drives a wedge between them. The way back to one another is uncharted territory that both must be brave enough to face. 1974. Ten years after his wife’s death and with his son now at university, James craves change. He moves to the beautiful English village of Upton not thirty minutes from the city where he brought his bride Yvette, nearly twenty-five years ago. There he discovers a scarf that lights the dark edges of his memory. Could it be Yvette’s? As James makes a new home for himself and gently presses into the feelings the scarf evokes, he begins to unlock new revelations about his past that change everything he believes. Revelations that just might give James a new reason to live and the possibility of new love at last, after ten years alone. Captivating and inspiring, Think of Me explores the power of love to echo across the years.

Think of Me

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Jillian Cantor

A Novel

A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival. Love brought them together. But only time can save them… 1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately he feels a powerful chemistry between them. It isn’t long before they fall in love and begin making plans for the future. As their love affair unfolds over the next five years, the climate drastically changes in Germany as Hitler comes to power. Their love is tested with the new landscape and the realities of war, not the least of which is that Hanna is Jewish and Max is not. But unbeknownst to Hanna is the fact that Max has a secret, which causes him to leave for months at a time—a secret that Max is convinced will help him save Hanna if Germany becomes too dangerous for her because of her religion. In 1946, Hanna Ginsberg awakens in a field outside of Berlin. Disoriented and afraid, she has no memory of the past ten years and no idea what has happened to Max. With no information as to Max’s whereabouts—or if he is even still alive—she decides to move to London to live with her sister while she gets her bearings. Even without an orchestra to play in, she throws herself completely into her music to keep alive her lifelong dream of becoming a concert violinist. But the music also serves as a balm to heal her deeply wounded heart and she eventually gets the opening she long hoped for. Even so, as the days, months, and years pass, taking her from London to Paris to Vienna to America, she continues to be haunted by her forgotten past, and the fate of the only man she has ever loved and cannot forget. Told in alternating viewpoints—Max in the years leading up to WWII, and Hanna in the ten years after—In Another Time is a beautiful novel about love and survival, passion and music, across time and continents.

In Another Time

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Brad Meltzer

Josh Mensch

Unread conditions. The dust jacket has a small tear in the front. 

New York

The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"An absolute home run! You will never look at WWII the same way again." --Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author

"Meltzer and Mensch are masters." --Jon Meacham, author The Soul of America

"A true story that reads like a thriller." --Alexander S. Vindman, LT. Col., U.S. Army (Ret.)

"An outstanding and memorable reading experience....a true page-turner from beginning to end." --Bookreporter.com

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.

In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape--an assassination plot that would've changed history.

A true story filled with daring rescues, body doubles, and political intrigue, The Nazi Conspiracy details FDR's pivotal meeting in Tehran and the deadly Nazi plot against the heads of state of the three major Allied powers who attended it.

With all the hallmarks of a Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch page-turner, The Nazi Conspiracy explores the great political minds of the twentieth century, investigating the pivotal years of the war in gripping detail. This meeting of the Big Three changed the course of World War II. Here's the inside story of how it almost led to a world-shattering disaster.

The Nazi Conspiracy * 1st Ed/2nd 

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Never read or plan to read! Advance reader’s edition

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

28 Days

Hazel Gaynor

Montana

Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring—she’s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she’d long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher—to help evacuate Britain’s children overseas. 1940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily’s humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other—one on land, the other at sea—will quickly become one another’s very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwined.

The Last Lifeboat

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Lynne Olson

Stanley Cloud

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II

The story of Polish fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain retraces the role of the Kosciuszko squadron in fending off German attacks on Britain in 1940.

A Question of Honor

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Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of two teenagers during World War II (WWII), one a blind girl in Nazi-occupied France, the other a German orphan boy pressed into service by the Nazi army. #fiction #paperback #historicalfiction #historical #pulitzerprizewinner #pulitzerprize #allthelightwecannotsee #ww2 #adult 

North Carolina

A cloth bag containing 20 paperback copies of the title that may also include a folder with sign out sheets.

All the Light We Cannot See

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#wwii #ww2 #holocaust #nazigermany #nuremburg 

New Hampshire

An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses

During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn--a U.S. Army psychiatrist--monitored the mental health of two dozen Germans leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations went largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately--one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany--made them available to the public in this remarkable collection. 

Here are interviews with the likes of Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop--the highest ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails. Here too are interviews with lesser-known officials essential to the inner workings of the Third Reich. Candid and often shockingly truthful, The Nuremberg Interviews is a profound addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

The Nuremberg Interviews

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Gracie Taylor

Nebraska

Edie's Home for Strays

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Diane Ackerman

A War Story

Documents the heroic true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski who, in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland, saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa. Reprint. 70,000 first printing.

The Zookeeper's Wife

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Missing its jacket, but pages and cover are in excellent condition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Idaho

Unbroken

Mark Faram

Oregon

The Untold Story of Edward Steichen's WWII Photographers

Looks at the history of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit and their work during World War II.

Faces of War

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Hal Vaughan

Colorado

Coco Chanel's Secret War

This explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel's life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler's SS. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was the high priestess of couture who created the look of the modern woman. By the 1920s she had amassed a fortune and went on to create an empire. But her life from 1941 to 1954 has long been shrouded in rumor and mystery, never clarified by Chanel or her many biographers. Hal Vaughan exposes the truth of her wartime collaboration and her long affair with the playboy Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage—who ran a spy ring and reported directly to Goebbels. Vaughan pieces together how Chanel became a Nazi agent, how she escaped arrest after the war and joined her lover in exile in Switzerland, and how—despite suspicions about her past—she was able to return to Paris at age seventy and rebuild the iconic House of Chanel.

Sleeping with the Enemy

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The Royal Navy in the Second World War

The Imperial War Museum Book of The War at Sea

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Burkhard Bilger

Kansas

A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain).

As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Germany of their youth. Winters in the Black Forest, when the snow piled up to the eaves and haunches of smoked speck hung from the rafters. Springtime along the Rhine, when the storks came home to nest on rooftops. His parents were born in 1935 and had lived through the Second World War, but those stories, vivid as they were, had strange omissions. His mother was a historian, yet she rarely talked about her father's relationship to the Nazis, or his role in the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowed with age, and a secret history began to unfold.

Karl Gönner was an elementary school teacher and father of four when the war began. In 1940, he was posted to a village in Alsace, in occupied France, and ordered to reeducate its children--to turn them into proper Germans. He was a loyal Nazi when he arrived, but as the war went on his allegiance wavered. According to some villagers, he risked his life shielding them from his own party's brutalities. According to others, he ruled the village with an iron fist. After the war, Gönner was charged with giving an order that led police to beat a local farmer to death. Was he guilty or innocent? A war criminal or just an ordinary man, struggling to do right from within a monstrous regime?

Fatherland is the story of Bilger's nearly ten-year quest to uncover the truth. It is a book of gripping suspense and moral inquiry--a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in archives and villages across Germany and France. Long admired for his profiles in The New Yorker, Bilger brings the same open-hearted curiosity to his grandfather's story and the questions it raises. What do we owe the past? How can we make peace with it without perpetuating its wrongs? Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century.

Fatherland

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Tatiana de Rosnay

On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.

Sarah's Key

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- Overall good condition

Flaws:
- A few scratches and stains on outside
- Bends in a few pages

Pennsylvania

Number the Stars

Anne Frank

B. M. Mooyaart

Eleanor. Roosevelt

The Diary of a Young Girl

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Signed by author Bret Baier! Very good shape. #fdr #stalin #churchill #dday #ww2

Michigan

FDR's Daring Gamble To Win Workd War 2

Three Days at the Brink autographed hardcover book 

#hardcover #History #war #new #aviator #aviation #hero #WW2 #WWII

Ohio

Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, these gripping true stories capture the astonishing bravery of the fliers who helped win World War II. American pilots fought fierce and often deadly battles in every theater of war, and many overcame incredible obstacles to survive. Meet some of these courageous aviators, including George McGovern, who survived enemy fire that left 110 holes in his aircraft; George H. W. Bush, shot down in the Pacific; Jim Landis, a naval flyer stationed in Pearl Harbor who returned fire even after sustaining a bullet through his hand; Alex Jefferson, a Tuskegee airman shot down over France and taken prisoner; and Betty Blake, one of the little-known women pilots who aided the war effort. Clifton Truman Daniel, a grandson of President Truman, provides the foreword to this collection of carefully researched and vividly told profiles in courage that will transport you to the bullet-ridden, bomb-laden skies of the early 1940s.

Heroes in the Skies

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William B. Breuer

About this story: “War defies logic. Loss of life, destruction, unending pain and misery-the results never seem to make sense. But on the brighter side, war is also a breeding ground for other types of illogical occurrences, namely strange coincidences premonitions, mysteries, twists of fate, and the seemingly supernatural. Having searched through stacks of periodicals, military reports, interviews and other publications, author William B. Breuer has come up with other one hundred such illogical events, and presents them in Unexplained Mysteries of World War II. From popular mysteries to barely believable happenings, Breuer sheds light on the absurdity of war from a different angle. For instance….

Famous mysteries…
-Who torched the Normandie in New York harbor?
-Did a New Yorker ad warn of Pearl Harbor?

…premonitions 
-Churchill’s “feeling” saves his life
_Ernest Hemingway lives to tell about switching seats 

…odd encounters
-Roosevelt meets a Nazi agent in the Oval Office
-An American and Japanese soldier accidentally share a fox-hole…all night

…the downright weird
-A U-boat gives a battleship a piggyback ride in the Atlantic 
-Shrapnel’s mission is foiled by chocolate 

…and much more!” 

Loss of life, destruction, unending pain and misery - the results of war never seem to make sense. War defies logic. Having searched through stacks of periodicals, military reports, interviews, and other publications, author William Breuer has come up with over one hundred such illogical events, and presents them in Unexplained Mysteries of World War II. From popular mysteries to barely believable happenings, Breuer sheds light on the absurdity of war from a different angle. The book is broken down into multiple sections, and delves into mysteries like: Who torched the Normandie in New York Harbor? Did a New Yorker ad warn of Pearl Harbor? Did Churchill have a “feeling” that saved his life? Ernest Hemingway lives to tell about switching seats. The night when an American and Japanese soldier accidentally shares a foxhole overnight. A U-boat gives a battleship a piggyback ride in the Atlantic.

Unexplained Mysteries of World War II

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Lizzie Page

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A Totally Unputdownable World War 2 Historical Novel

The Nazis are everywhere now. We must leave Vienna. It might be that soon our letters won't get out anymore. Can you help, dear sister? Please, ask for us. Send news, and quickly. Please. London, 1938. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Leeman takes the heart-breaking decision to leave her family behind in Vienna and travel to England to join her cousin Leah in service. Natalie is placed with a wealthy suburban family, the Caplins, as a nanny to their energetic six-year-old. At first, Natalie is delighted by the huge house and beautiful gardens, but things aren't as perfect as they seem. While Natalie dotes on their child, she is increasingly wary of Mr Caplin, whose gruff manor and fascist politics scare her. And then there are those still waiting at home - Mama and her two sisters, as well as a blossoming romance with her English tutor that had only just begun. But when Vienna falls under Nazi rule, Natalie begins to fear for her family, especially her vivacious, tomboy little sister Libby. Then rumours of a possible escape route from mainland Europe called the kindertransport begin to swirl - can Natalie help her family escape the Nazis before it's too late? A heartbreaking wartime novel - emotional and unforgettable. Perfect for fans of The Alice Network, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Before We Were Yours. What readers are saying about Lizzie Page: 'Twists and turns that keep you turning the page... I must read one more chapter before I turn out the light for the night... fans who enjoyed The Nightingale or Sold on a Monday will love this book as much as me. Authentic, heart-tugging and soul-stirring. Be sure to have tissues nearby.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Brought me to tears... If you like romantic historical fiction, particularly which is set in wartime, then this is the book for you! This, at times, bought tears to my eyes and equally a warm glow to my heart.' Stardust Book Reviews 'Lizzie Page has gone and done it again with this beautiful, poignant and immensely emotional story... She is by far one of my favourite authors... Lizzie you have blown me away.' Chicks Rogues and Scandals, 5 stars 'I adore Lizzie Page's writing and the way she so brilliantly blends fact and fiction.' Jill Mansell, bestselling author 'Page is a wonderful writer, one that draws me in to the story completely and utterly ... wonderful characters... brilliantly plotted with a delightfully intertwined story, it has the heartbreak of war and a gorgeous love story... fantastic.' Short Book and Scribes, 5 stars 'The story is heartbreaking... This is an all-round excellent read, without a doubt 5 stars from me.' Booking Good Read, 5 stars 'This book was hard to put down... One of the best historical fiction books I've read in a very long time.' Shelly's Book Nook, 5 stars

The Wartime Nanny

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E. B. Sledge

Some imperfections on the cover the pages are unmarred.

A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front-line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns--the bloody campaigns at Peleliu and Okinawa--in which he participated as a teenage soldier. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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