BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerHalf American is the history of World War II but including the events and actors that history books have long erased. T...
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Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943
HardcoverOriginal price $54.00Original price $54.00 - Original price $54.00Original price $54.00Current price $46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army f...
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $41.00Original price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"An utterly compelling account of the African Americans who played a crucial and dangerous role in the invasion of Europe. The story of their heroi...
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Battling While Black: General Patton's Heroic African American WWII Battalions
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a seventh-grade education, and yo...
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Battling While Black: General Patton's Heroic African American WWII Battalions
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a seventh-grade education, and yo...
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Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in 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| /This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American po...
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review “Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”—W...
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Josephine: Singer dancer soldier spy
PaperbackOriginal price $13.50 - Original price $13.50Original price $13.50$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Born into poverty in a racially segregated Amercia, Josephine Baker flees to France where she embraces the hedonistic lifestyle on offer in Paris o...
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A 'Desert Rat' Story
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Tripoli, Tobruk, Alam al Halfa and Al Alamein are burned into military history with blood.The moment Benito Mussolini sent his 10th Army into Egypt...
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The Forgotten Soldiers
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Forgotten Soldiers gives information about African Soldiers who served with the British Army in the Second World War, the King's African Rifles...
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Women of the Post
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"What a beautifully imagined and important narrative. Sanders' clear-eyed and powerful writing made this a hard one to stop reading!"--Jacqueline W...
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Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of ...
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Josephine Baker's Last Dance
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the author of The Jewel of Medina, a moving and insightful novel based on the life of legendary performer and activist Josephine Baker, perf...
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War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought t...
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Tuskegee in Philadelphia: Rising to the Challenge
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The uplifting story of the valiant Tuskegee men and women whose impact on Philadelphia during World War II will surprise even the most avid armchai...
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Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and...
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Black ReadsHalf American is the history of World War II but including the events and actors that history books have long erased. Tell...
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a forc...
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World W...
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Back From Tobruk
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during...
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1)
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World ...
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Valentine Infantry Tank Vs Panzer III: North Africa 1941-43
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A unique comparison between the two most numerous British and German tank types from 1941 to 1943. Although much has been written about the Panzer ...
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