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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Autumn 1944. World War II is nea...
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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military ...
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal — and forgotten — massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capi...
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Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Back with Caliber after more than a decade out of print, a revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze—the suicide pilots ...
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The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“One of Ten Best History Books of 2021.” —Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably rese...
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Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /When the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans as “domestic enemy aliens” during World War II, most other Americans succumbed t...
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Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Chri...
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An Eye for Injustice: Robert C. Sims and Minidoka
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /As wartime hysteria mounted following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, and th...
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Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women ma...
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Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense." --Wall Street JournalA riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contendin...
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So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among...
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Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to atten...
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Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to atten...
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Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Writt...
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Commissioner Lin and the Opium War
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The Canton trade for almost a century had been the sole regulated channel between China and the Western world; as such, it had become the focus of ...
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Once a Warrior King
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The memoir of a young American soldier who became the most powerful man in a remote rural district of Vietnam In the spring of 1969, First Lieuten...
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Vietnam, Full Circle: A Combat Veteran Returns
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"The immigration officer at the airport in Saigon slid my passport over the scanner at his desk. After consulting his monitor, he remarked in Engli...
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The Battle of Buffalo Wallow: The Japanese Attack on the 44th General Hospital in World War II - Leyte, Philippines December 1944
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In World War II, the U.S. Army's 44th General Hospital found themselves at ground-zero of the Japanese counterattack on the island of Leyte. As Jap...
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Why a Soldier?: A Signal Corpsman's Tour from Vietnam to the Moscow Hot Line
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /He was one of the best, Airborne, proud to serve his country and fight its toughest war--in the hell that was Vietnam. Known to all as "Fitz," Sign...
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A Foreign Kid in World War II Shanghai
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Eric Hoffer Award 2019 Grand Prize ShortList, and First Horizon Award Finalist. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, it ma...
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Behind Japanese Lines: An American Guerrilla in the Philippines
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Behind Japanese Lines has a great deal to say about the relations with the Filipinos and about the problems of dealing with and fighting the Hukbal...
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Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography Examines South Vietnam's complex relationship with the United States throu...
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The Diary of Prisoner 17326: A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In this moving memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation...
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Memoirs of the Four-Foot Colonel
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese Army, nicknamed the "four-foot Colonel," offers an account of his nation's struggle for independence from a u...
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