Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Battleground South Pacific

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Art Spiegelman

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.

Maus I and II Paperback Box Set

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Michigan

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

Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations

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Shigeru Mizuki

Zack Davisson

Book is in English, However read back to front and Right to left. Amazing Storytelling!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

A History of Japan

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the legacy of World War II in Japan

Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan continues the award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's autobiographical and historical account of the Showa period in Japan. This volume recounts the events of the final years of the Pacific War, and the consequences of the war's devastation for Mizuki and the Japanese populace at large.

After the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Japan and the United States are officially at war. The two rival navies engage in a deadly game of feint and thrust, waging a series of microwars across the tiny Pacific islands. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, Japan slowly loses ground. Finally, the United States unleashes the deathblow with a new and terrible weapon--the atomic bomb. The fallout from the bombs is beyond imagining.

On another front, Showa 1944-1953 traces Mizuki's own life story across history's sweeping changes during this period, charting the impact of the war's end on his life choices. After losing his arm during the brutal fighting, Mizuki struggles to decide where to go: whether to remain on the island as an honored friend of the local Tolai people or return to the rubble of Japan and take up his dream of becoming a cartoonist. Showa 1944-1953 is a searing condemnation of the personal toll of war from one of Japan's most famous cartoonists.

Showa 1944-1953

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Book is in English but is read back to front and Right to Left. Amazing storytelling!

A master cartoonist and war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II

Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan continues the award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's autobiographical and historical account of Showa-era Japan. This volume covers the final moments of the lead-up to World War II and the first few years of the Pacific War, and is a chilling reminder of the harshness of life in Japan during this highly militarized epoch.

Mizuki writes affectingly about the impact on the Japanese populace of world-changing moments, including the devastating Second Sino-Japanese War, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the first half of the Pacific War. On a personal level, these years mark a dramatic transformation in Mizuki's life, too. His idyllic childhood in the countryside comes to a definitive end when he's drafted into the army and shipped off to the tiny island of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. His life becomes a constant struggle for survival, not only against the constant Allied attacks but against the harsh discipline of the Japanese army officers. During his time in Rabaul, Mizuki comes to understand the misery and beauty of the island itself, a place that will permanently mark him and haunt him for the rest of his life.

Showa 1939-1944

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Jeannette Walls

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Oregon

A Novel

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.

Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.

Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father's daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother's son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out.

Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger.

You will fall in love with Sallie Kincaid, a feisty and fearless, terrified and damaged young woman who refuses to be corralled.

Hang the Moon

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Haruko Taya Cook

Theodore F. Cook

An Oral History

A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II

"Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach about the Pacific War without reference to [the Cooks'] work." --Marius B. Jansen, Emeritus Professor of Japanese History, Princeton University

This pathbreaking work of oral history by Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook was the first book ever to capture the experience of ordinary Japanese people during the war and remains the classic work on the subject.

In a sweeping panorama, Japan at War takes us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese home front during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering glimpses of how the twentieth century's most deadly conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population. The book "seeks out the true feelings of the wartime generation [and] illuminates the contradictions between the official views of the war and living testimony" (Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan).

For decades, American and Japanese readers have turned to Japan at War for a candid portrait of the Japanese experience during World War II in all its complexity. Featuring essays that contextualize the oral histories of each tumultuous period covered, Japan at War is appropriate both as an introduction to those war-ravaged decades and as a riveting reference for those studying the war in the Pacific.

Japan at War

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WW II Wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk Lagoons

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March 7, 1945 The Miracle of Remagen

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Revised, Expanded, and Updated from the Original Text by Henry Steele Commanger

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.

The Story of World War II   55

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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Robert Howlett; Bruce Adams (Photographer)

Battleground South Pacific

Art Spiegelman

Maus I and II Paperback Box Set

Charles Dick

Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations

Shigeru Mizuki; Zack Davisson

Showa 1944-1953

Shigeru Mizuki; Zack Davisson

Showa 1939-1944

Jeannette Walls

Hang the Moon

Haruko Taya Cook; Theodore F. Cook

Japan at War

Dan E. Bailey

WW II Wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk Lagoons

Wolfgang Guckelhorn

March 7, 1945 The Miracle of Remagen

Henry Steele Commager; Donald L. Miller

The Story of World War II 55

Madeline Martin

The Keepers of Hidden Books

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Robert Howlett; Bruce Adams (Photographer)

Battleground South Pacific

Art Spiegelman

Maus I and II Paperback Box Set

Charles Dick

Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations

Shigeru Mizuki; Zack Davisson

Showa 1944-1953

Shigeru Mizuki; Zack Davisson

Showa 1939-1944

Jeannette Walls

Hang the Moon

Haruko Taya Cook; Theodore F. Cook

Japan at War

Dan E. Bailey

WW II Wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk Lagoons

Wolfgang Guckelhorn

March 7, 1945 The Miracle of Remagen

Henry Steele Commager; Donald L. Miller

The Story of World War II 55

Madeline Martin

The Keepers of Hidden Books

Various

Collection of books on World War 2