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  • The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

    The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story

    by Theresa Mitchell Barbo, W. Russell Webster, John "Jack" Downey ...
    A first-hand account and fascinating new details of the 1952 rescue of the SS Pendleton, the true story behind the film The Finest Hours.On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Persecution and Participation

    Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. A. Topf & Söhne

    by Annegret Schüle, Tobias Sowade ...
    Translated by Penny Milbouer ...
    Series series Modern Jewish History
    This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. The son of a baptized Jewish father and a Protestant mother, Willy Wiemokli (1908–1983) was declared a half-Jew by the laws of the Third Reich, and because of this, he and his father were briefly interned in Buchenwald. Although his father was eventually executed in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Business of Genocide

    The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps

    by Michael Thad Allen ...
    During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats — no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Fighting Coast Guard

    America's Maritime Guardians at War in the Twentieth Century, with foreword by Admiral Thad Allen, USCG (ret.)

    by Thad Allen ...
    This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States’ oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. The Fighting Coast Guard features three distinct sections: “Beginnings,” which includes a short overview of the US Revenue Cutter ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Neptune's Inferno

    The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors comes a “vivid and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal.”—San Antonio Express-NewsThe Battle of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Battle of Midway

    by Craig L. Symonds ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Admirals

    Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea

    by Walter R. Borneman ...
    How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

    War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 1 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    “Both a serious work of history . . . and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative.”—San Francisco ChronicleOn the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, from the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors—with original maps and more than 120 dramatic photographs“A masterful, fresh account of the latter days of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Conquering Tide

    War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 2 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    **A New York Times Bestseller"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative." —Wall Street Journal**This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide," ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Countdown to Pearl Harbor

    The Twelve Days to the Attack

    by Steve Twomey ...
    Series series A Gift for World War II History Buffs
    In this “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) account of the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Twomey “infuses a well-known story with suspense” (The New York Times Book Review), offering a poignant new perspective on the most infamous day in American history.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals composed the most ominous message in Navy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Final Patrol

    True Stories of World War II Submarines

    by Don Keith ...
    During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners.But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost 60 percent of Japanese shipping losses, and were a major factor in winning the war. 16 U.S. submarines - and one German U-Boat - that saw action during WWII are now open ... Read more

    $4.99 USD