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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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The Lost Century
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism and queer experience duri...
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Tears of Honor
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A sweeping novel of history, war, and courage in the face of injustice, Tears of Honor tells the story of the heroic Japanese American soldiers who...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Life in Three Acts: My Journey from Wartime Burma to America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Part history of Burma and World War Two, part personal memoir, and part reflections on contemporary social and political life in the US and Burma, ...
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War in the Indies: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /'The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember' is a series of books containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the USA, who live...
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Bowing to the Emperor: We Were Captives in WWII
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /More than 10,000 women and children. That's how many civilian prisoners of the Japanese were packed into Tjideng, reportedly the worst Japanese con...
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God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fierces...
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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi ...
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Deadline- Captain Charlie's Bataan Diary
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /News reporter to commander: Bataan, the Death March, three POW camps- the war story of Captain Charles Underwood. A Story untold for more than sixt...
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Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously de...
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Memoirs of a Kamikaze: A World War II Pilot's Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner** An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest ch...
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You'll Die in Singapore: The True Account of One of the Most Amazing Prison Escapes in WWII
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew th...
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