Kurt Palka

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A WWII Novel of Courage Found and a Promise Kept

For fans of Kristin Harmel and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls -- the bestselling author of The Piano Maker returns with a vivid, atmospheric, and deeply moving novel set during the final months of the Second World War.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

London, 1944/45- Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father's murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved.

Kate's life is interrupted once more when she wakes up one night to the sound of the air raid alarm and the terror whistles of a bomb's stabilizers screaming toward the roof of her house. Kate survives, but she is injured.

Her house is gone as well, and after her time in the hospital, Claire Giroux, a kind doctor and family friend, invites Kate to live with her as she recuperates. This arrangement works well for them until a few months later when Claire's husband comes home from the war. Within days the lives of both women are drastically altered, and events are set in motion, both in England and in Canada, that challenge Kate and Claire to their limits.

The Orphan Girl is a moving and powerful story about friendship and courage, and about promises made and kept.

The Orphan Girl

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Larry Loftis

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom

New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary.



The Watchmaker's Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that readers haven't heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom--a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place straight out of a spy novel to shelter Jews and refugees from the Nazis during Gestapo raids. Even though the Nazis knew what the ten Booms were up to, they were never able to find those sheltered within the house when they raided it.

Corrie stopped at nothing to face down the evils of her time and overcame unbelievable obstacles and odds. She persevered despite the loss of most of her family and relied on her faith to survive the horrors of a notorious concentration camp. But even more remarkable than her heroism and survival was Corrie's attitude when she was released. Miraculously, she was able to eschew bitterness and embrace forgiveness as she ministered to people in need around the globe. Corrie's ability to forgive is just one of the myriad lessons that her life story holds for readers today.

Reminiscent of Schindler's List and featuring a journey of faith and forgiveness not unlike Unbroken, The Watchmaker's Daughter is destined to become a classic work of World War II nonfiction.



The Watchmaker's Daughter

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Norman Mailer

Rare signed first edition in like new condition. Collectible. Few pages slightly bent. 

New York

50th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction by the Author

Portrays the contrasting personalities and nostalgic reminiscences of a group of World War II American soldiers engaged in a combat operation against the Japanese. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Naked and the Dead—Signed

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John Lambert

Al Ross

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Vol 2: Vosper MTBs and US ELCOs

Allied Coastal Forces of World War II

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Vol 1: Fairmile designs & U.S. Sub Chasers

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How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret. In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents; of how, when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and of how, after her husband was captured by the Soviet army, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street. Yet despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document and set of papers issued to her, as well as photographs she managed to take inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust -- complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

The Nazi Officer's Wife

Robert N. Proctor

Originally purchased at the Smithsonian National History Museum. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Medicine under the Nazis

This book focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Proctor demonstrates that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy.

Racial Hygiene

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Kristin Harmel

North Carolina

Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remmeber who they really are. The records they keep in the Book of Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and Rémy disappears. As the Germans close in, Eva records a last, vital message in the book. Decades later, does she have the strength to seek out its answer--and help reunite those lost during the war?

The Book of Lost Names

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#hardcover #history #military #WW2 #strategy #War 

Michigan

The Western Front, Summer 1944?Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 1

Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations

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Sarah Rose

New Jersey

The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II

"Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)--and all of it true."--Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake

In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To "set Europe ablaze," in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive  (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.

In D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently de­classified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. There's Andrée Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOE's unflap­pable "queen." Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligence--laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.

Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit, D-Day Girls is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courage--and the energy of politically animated women--can accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.

Praise for D-Day Girls

"Rigorously researched . . . [a] thriller in the form of a non-fiction book."--Refinery29

"Equal parts espionage-romance thriller and historical narrative, D-Day Girls traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France. . . . While chronicling the James Bond-worthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures the broken landscape of war."--The Washington Post

"Gripping history . . . thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

D-Day Girls

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A monumental and damning analysis of America's failure to aid European Jews during World War II. Introduction by Elie Wiesel.

Texas

America And The Holocaust 1941-1945

The Abandonment of The Jews 

Arthur M. Schlesinger

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rhode Island

The Complete Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin

My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding the relationship that developed between these two great world leaders during a time of supreme world crisis.The correspondence, secret at the time, begins with a letter Roosevelt wrote to Stalin offering aid to the Soviet Union following Hitler’s surprise attack in 1941. It ends with a message that was an attempt to minimize the differences between the two leaders, approved by Roosevelt only minutes before his death in 1945. The book traces the evolution of their unique relationship, revealing the statesmanship of the two men and their thinking about the grave events of their time. An informative introduction to the volume and generous annotations set the letters in context.

My Dear Mr. Stalin

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The Librarian of Burned Books

Arkansas

German War Economy 

The Motorization Myth

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#hardcover #nonfiction #history #histotical #ww2

Washington

A True Story of Courage

FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese troops and taken prisoner. Another was rescued by an American submarine and went on to become president. The reality of what happened to the eight prisoners has remained a secret for almost 60 years. After the war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the shocking truth. Not even the families of the airmen were informed what had happened to their sons. It has remained a mystery--until now. Critics called James Bradley's last book "the best book on battle ever written." FLYBOYS is even better: more ambitious, more powerful, and more moving. On the island of Chichi Jima those young men would face the ultimate test. Their story--a tale of courage and daring, of war and of death, of men and of hope--will make you proud, and it will break your heart.

Flyboys

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Luther L. Lyon

1988 Los Alamos Historical Society. What it was like for the wives of the men working on the atom bomb.

Arizona

Women of Wartime Los Alamos

Standing by and Making Do

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Mark Perry

Virginia

The Making of Douglas MacArthur

"A dazzling biography." --Boston Globe At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a brilliant commander whose combined-arms operation in the Pacific--the first in the history of warfare--secured America's triumph in World War II and changed the course of history. In The Most Dangerous Man in America, celebrated historian Mark Perry examines how this paradox of a man overcame personal and professional challenges to lead his countrymen in their darkest hour. As Perry shows, Franklin Roosevelt and a handful of MacArthur's subordinates made this feat possible, taming MacArthur, making him useful, and finally making him victorious. A gripping, authoritative biography of the Pacific Theater's most celebrated and misunderstood commander, The Most Dangerous Man in America reveals the secrets of Douglas MacArthur's success--and the incredible efforts of the men who made it possible.

The Most Dangerous Man in America

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Starved, shit, gassed, and burned to death, the surviving Jews of Europe resisted the Nazis with every means at their disposal- sabotage, escape, and armed revolt against their concentration camp guards. They Fought Back is filled with authentic accounts of Jewish courage in the death camps of Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Sobibor; the ghettos of Warsaw, Minsk, and Vilma; the dangerous streets of Paris, Rome - even Berlin itself!

They Fought Back

A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz

Rena’s Promise

Tom Brokaw

☀️~A scrapbook/novel telling the story of America’s World War ll generation, a tribute to veterans of the nation, and a number one New York Times bestseller, filled with photography of the families of those whose lives are told

Focuses on the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.

The Greatest Generation

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Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this volume collecting one of the most unusual series ever from DC Comics! On an unnamed, uncharted Pacific island, dinosaurs continued to thrive while World War II raged across the globe. It's there that members of the U.S. Military found themselves armed only with standard-issue weapons against the deadliest predators ever to roam the Earth!

Volume 1 

The War That Time Forgot 

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Before You Cast the Second Stone

Publisher: Western North Carolina Press

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Trade Paperback

Book Condition: Very Good, NOS



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Before You Cast the Second Stone by Klaus Heck (1979, Paperback) NOS

George Okshewsky

Oleg Oksevski

Oleg Okshewsky's memoir offers a gripping, firsthand account from the commander of the DO-17Z bomber himself. The son of a Tsarist cavalry officer grew up in Serbia after the Russian Revolution. His memoir recounts his wartime experiences as a former Royal Yugoslavian Air Force commander who infiltrated the Croatian Air Force in an attempt to secure a plane for the Allies, only to be captured by the Soviets and sent to various POW camps and gulags in the Soviet Union. Oleg's own words come alive in Flying with the Enemy, over eighty years after the young airman tried to escape evil so he could fight Hitler another day. #history #russia #ukraine #yugoslavia #WWII #WW2 #military #aviation #ussr #airplanes



Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Memoir of a Young Cadet 

Flying With The Enemy 

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Madeline Martin

Never read. Brand new with the sticker still on front from Barnes and Noble

Nevada

A Novel

All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler's forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away, and even starting a clandestine book club. She and her dearest friend never surrender their love of reading, even when Janina is forced into the newly formed ghetto. But the closer Warsaw creeps toward liberation, the more dangerous life becomes for the women and their families - and escape may not be possible for everyone. As the destruction rages around them, Zofia must fight to save her friend and preserve her culture and community using the only weapon they have left - literature.

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The Orphan Girl

Larry Loftis

The Watchmaker's Daughter

Norman Mailer

The Naked and the Dead—Signed

John Lambert; Al Ross

Allied Coastal Forces of World War II

John Lambert

Allied Coastal Forces of World War II

Edith Hahn Beer; Susan Dworkin

The Nazi Officer's Wife

Robert N. Proctor

Racial Hygiene

Kristin Harmel

The Book of Lost Names

Charles Dick

Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations

Sarah Rose

D-Day Girls

David S Wyman

The Abandonment of The Jews

Arthur M. Schlesinger; Franklin D. Roosevelt

My Dear Mr. Stalin

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The Librarian of Burned Books

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The Motorization Myth

James Bradley

Flyboys

Jane S. Wilson and Charlotte Serber, Editors

Standing by and Making Do

Mark Perry

The Most Dangerous Man in America

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They Fought Back

Rena Kornreich Gelissen

Rena’s Promise

Tom Brokaw

The Greatest Generation

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Klaus Heck

Before You Cast the Second Stone by Klaus Heck (1979, Paperback) NOS

Oleg V. Oksevski

Flying With The Enemy

Madeline Martin

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