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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assign...
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Even As We Breathe: A Novel
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer j...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of Us Military Bases in World War II Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of coope...
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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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Let the Wild Grasses Grow
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Beautiful and expansive...in Johnstun's Let the Wild Grasses Grow, Colorado has a successor to Kent Haruf. --SEAN PRENTISS, author of Finding Abbey...
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After the Blessing: Mexican American Veterans of WWII Tell Their Own Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"This lieutenant gets up there and says, 'American soldiers don't huddle and put their hands in their pockets on a cold day. They stand at attentio...
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