David Faber

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Washington

Appeasement and World War II

The dramatic narrative account of the 1938 Munich appeasement conference, in which Britain agreed to Adolf Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland in return for his promise never to go to war again--before tumbling inexorably into World War II.

* A pivotal chapter in history: When British Prime minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler signed an appeasement treaty in 1938, Chamberlain promised that the result would be "peace in our time." David Faber sheds new light on the key incidents leading up to the munich meeting and its aftermath; in Berlin, we witness Hitler's relentless preparations for war, even in the face of opposition from his own party, while in London, we watch helplessly as Chamberlain seizes executive control from his own cabinet, and makes one supreme effort after another to appease the Führer.

* A timely, hot-button topic: These days, appeasement is invoked to justify everything from the war in Iraq to the West's response to Putin's actions in Georgia. The first major book devoted to the appeasement conference in over thirty years, Munich, 1938 draws tough conclusions sure to stir up controversy.

* Impeccable research blended with powerful prose: Drawing on diaries and notes taken by Hitler and Chamberlain's translator, Faber brings the events of 1938 alive with an insider's feel for the political infighting he uncovers. Packed with narrative punch and vivid characters, Munich, 1938 exposes readers to the war rooms and bunkers, revealing the secret negotiations and scandals upon which the world's fate would rest. It is modern history writing at its best.

Munich 1938

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It's been a month since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. America is officially at war with Germany and Japan, and everyone wants to do their part. In twelve-year-old Colton's case, that means stepping up at home once his older brother, Danny, ships out with the navy. But before Danny leaves for boot camp, the brothers are fishing on the Atlantic Ocean when Danny's boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, nearly killing him.When more U-boats start attacking the next day, Colton realizes just how close the enemy is to American shores. With Danny's life in the balance, Colton does the only thing he can think of to help his family and his country: He steals his brother's enlisting papers and joins up instead.Colton's bold decision leads to a deadly journey. Even if he can keep his age a secret and survive boot camp, he'll have to face Hitler's ruthless submarines. But the longer he's on the seas, the less sure Colton is that he and his shipmates can stop such a relentless enemy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A novel of World War II

Sink or Swim

#history #worldwar #espionage #germany #war

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plot--the basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper.

When a "neutral" United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of saboteurs--including an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster--devise a series of "mysterious accidents" using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J. P. Morgan.

New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them. Assembling a team of loyal operatives, the cunning Irish cop hunts for the conspirators among a population of more than eight million Germans. But the deeper he finds himself in this labyrinth of deception, the more Tunney realizes that the enemy's plan is far more complex and more dangerous than he suspected.

Full of drama and intensity, illustrated with eight pages of black and-white photos, Dark Invasion is riveting war thriller that chillingly echoes our own time.

Dark Invasion

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

In short, poignant chapters, Elly Gross beautifullyand plainly tells us her gripping personal history.A happy childhood soon turned into terror andtragedy when the Nazi regime began persecutingJewish families like Elly's. We are taken intothe depths of horror, into Auschwitz itself, asElly describes her everyday struggles to survive.Though wracked by the pain of losing her family,Elly was able to cling to hope and begin a new lifein America. And indeed, her book is infused withhope--her lyrical poetry, a heartfelt essay fromher daughter, and an afterword explaining Elly'sinvolvement in Steven Spielberg's Survivorsof the Shoah Visual History Foundation anda lawsuit against Volkswagen round out thismemoir. An important work for any age.

Elly - My True Story of the Holocaust

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Byron Farwell

The dust jacket has some tears around the edges, otherwise the book is still in good condition.

Pennsylvania

The Gurkhas

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Nevada

CIA operative Mitch Rapp investigates an attack on a team of Navy SEALs in the Philippines, searches for a possible State Department traitor, and fights to stop a Middle Eastern assassin out to ignite World War III.

Executive Power

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Page edges are browning. All text legible. 

World War 2 Anthology

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Jeff Shaara

A Novel of the First World War

In the spring of 1918, when America enters World War I, the world waits to see if the tide of war can be turned with the renewed spirit and strength of the untested American Expeditionary Force under General John "BlackJack" Pershing.

To the Last Man

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Texas

At once a suspenseful mystery and a heartfelt tale of a man's attempts to sort out the tangled remains of a life torn apart by war . . . Ironside's landscapes are rich, if decimated, and her characters extraordinarily intriguing--"Birmingham Post" (UK).

A Good Death

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Daisy Wood

Georgia

The Clockmaker's Wife

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#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #adult #romance #worldwar #thekennedys #political #debutante #kennedy 

The Kennedy Debutante

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A Short History of Japanese War Crimes

The Knights of Bushido 

A West Point Graduate’s Memoir of World War II

Honor Untarinshed

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Lynn Brittney

Ohio

A Mayfair 100 Mystery

A high-profile murder propels a unique crime-fighting team into London’s underworld in this “delightful . . . compelling” WWI-era British mystery (Rhys Bowen, author of the Royal Spyness mysteries) London, 1915. As World War I engulfs Europe, a special task force is formed in the affluent Mayfair district to tackle the city’s thorniest crimes against women. When the bobbies and Scotland Yard come up short, there’s only one telephone number to dial: Mayfair 100. An aristocrat has been murdered, and his wife, a witness and possible suspect, will only talk to a woman. With the blessing of London’s Chief Commissioner, Chief Inspector Beech, a young man invalided out of the war, assembles a crew of sharp, intrepid, and well-educated women to investigate. But to get at the truth, Beech, Victoria, Caroline, Rigsby, and Tollman will venture into the city’s seedy underbelly, a world where murder is only the first in a litany of evils. Lynn Brittney’s Mayfair 100 series debut, Murder in Belgravia, is the darkly compelling story of a movement far ahead of its time, in an attempt to combat the prejudices against women then and now.

Murder in Belgravia

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Charles Whiting

Oregon

The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line

"The Battle for the Siegfried Line" was not only the most important of the 1944-45 campaign against Germany, it was to prove the key battle in the war in the west. This work gives a vivid account brings to life the principal personalities engaged in the struggle to break through the "West Wall".

West Wall

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Used excellent condition…Recounts the final thirty days of the war, focusing on the momentous meeting of President Truman, Churchill, and Stalin.

The End of World War ll

The Last Great Victory

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Lori Wick

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

1945--Lieutenant Donovan Riggs is ready to do anything for his country, even lay down his life. WWII is drawing to an end, but before that can officially happen, trouble with his PT boat calls the sailors of "Every Storm to make an unscheduled stop at a South Pacific island. And when they make a landing ... they make an unexpected discovery. Lorraine Archer is an American teacher living and working in Australia, a job she took before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and US involvement in the war. While on a flight with her sister, her daydreams of home are disrupted by the frightening sounds of the plane going down. The only survivor, she finds herself alone on an island in the Pacific searching for food and shelter. And just when Lorri is losing any sense of hope ... the PT boat crew lands for repairs. In the midst of their precarious circumstances, surrounded by the uncertainties of war, neither Donovan nor Lorri suspect that their encounter is the beginning of something very certain ... a future not left to chance, but to faith.

Every Storm

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A Maggie Hope Mystery

Recruited by a spy organization that is separate even from MI-6 to perform her most dangerous feat yet, American ex-pat Maggie Hope, given a new identity, is parachuted into Berlin where she must ultimately destroy a major part of the German war machine. Original.

His Majesty's Hope

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A Novel

Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest friend, Lin. Now we finally learn what happened to Pei, as she leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care. Her first job, in the home of a wealthy family, ends in disgrace, but soon Pei and Ji Shen find a new life in the home of Mrs. Finch, a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had. Their idyllic life is interrupted, however, by war, and the Japanese occupation. Pei is once again forced to make her own way, struggling to survive and to keep her extended family alive as well. In this story of hardship and survival, Tsukiyama paints a portrait of women fighting the forces of war and time to make a life for themselves.

The Language of Threads

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Robert Weintraub

Hawaii

A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II

Discover an extraordinary tale of friendship and survival between a man and a dog in World War II in this young readers' adaptation of the New York Times bestseller No Better Friend.

No Better Friend tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who sensed danger--warning her fellow prisoners of imminent attacks and protecting them from brutal beatings. Frank and Judy's friendship, an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances, is one of the great recently unearthed stories of World War II.

As they discover Frank and Judy's story in this specially adapted text, young readers will also learn about key World War II moments through informative and engaging sidebars, maps, photographs, and a timeline.

No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition

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A very poignant book to remind us of what our ancestors went through for our freedom. Packed full of interesting facts and events. 

Missouri

The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce

From an acclaimed historian and National Book Award finalist comes the poignant story of World War I's 1914 Christmas truce--the spontaneous and tantalizingly brief moment when mortal enemies came together as friends. photos. Illustrations.

Silent Night

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Alan Bullock

Some wear to the cover, but inside is clean.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Parallel Lives

"Alan Bullock's Hitler and Stalin is his crowning achievement, the magnum opus of one of today's most admired historians--the distinguished Oxford scholar and author of the now classic Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. This new work is a full-scale dual biography, remarkable for the richness and clarity of its narrative, for its historical astuteness, and above all for its freshly revealing perspective." "Bullock examines his protagonists not in the traditional context of their conflicts with the Western Alliance but, for the first time, primarily against the more fruitful background of Berlin-Moscow relations; for he sees the cataclysmic history of Europe in the mid-twentieth century as an ongoing and accelerating clash between the aspirations of Germany and those of the Soviet Union." "Until now the pendulum has swung between exaggeration and underestimation of the roles played by Hitler and Stalin. Bullock argues convincingly that, in order to show how two such outsiders came to power, it is necessary to take into account both the historical circumstances that gave them an opportunity and the highly individual traits and gifts each man used to exploit it. He goes on to explore the nature and scope of their power. His approach, developed with a remarkable command of historical and psychological detail and a sure grasp of historical currents--both the sweeping and the small--is to take the reader through one after another of the major crises: from Stalin's savage attack on the Russian peasantry and the Nazi takeover of Germany, to Stalin's destructive purges of the Communist Party and the Red Army, and Hitler's planned attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe." "Bullock finds in both Hitler and Stalin, despite the radical differences between them, the same unshaken belief in their historic missions, overriding any regard for law, limits, or humanity and armoring them against any feeling of compassion, remorse, or guilt. His book culminates in an account of what he sees as the greatest war in history, the clash between the German and Soviet armies on the Eastern front--a war that, instead of realizing Hitler's vision of a slave empire reaching to the Volga, left Stalin's forces in occupation of a Communist empire reaching to the Elbe." "With the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the democratizing of Eastern Europe, the world Hitler and Stalin created is coming to an end. And it is from this historical promontory that Bullock looks back at the two leaders: who they were and what they did. His book is one of the twentieth century's major works of history. It provides the most brilliant and telling account we have yet had of the two men who, perhaps uniquely, steered, dominated, and for a while controlled the historical forces swirling around them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Hitler and Stalin

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Tilar J. Mazzeo

Michigan

Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris





Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz--a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance--from Tilar J. Manzeo, the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. 5

When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme--an icon of Paris frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, playboys, and princes--was the only luxury hotel of its kind allowed in the occupied city by order of Adolf Hitler.

Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark from its opening in fin de siècle Paris. At its center, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is an extraordinary chronicle of life at the Ritz during wartime, when the Hôtel was simultaneously headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring, and home to exclusive patrons, including Coco Chanel. Mazzeo takes us into the grand palace's suites, bars, dining rooms, and wine cellars, revealing a hotbed of illicit affairs and deadly intrigue, as well as stunning acts of defiance and treachery.

Rich in detail, illustrated with black-and-white photos, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is a remarkable look at this extraordinary crucible where the future of post-war France--and all of post-war Europe--was transformed. 

The Hotel on Place Vendome

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Winston Churchill

Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War With an Epilogue by the Author on the Postwar Years With MAPS and DIAGRAMS


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