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Disobeying Hitler:
German Resistance After Valkyrie
Hardcover (480 pages), kindle, audiobook
The failed Valkyrie bomb plot was far from the last act of disobedience carried out against the Nazi regime.
Short Stirling:
The First of the RAF Heavy Bombers
Hardcover (416 pages), kindle
Illustrated with largely unpublished wartime photographs, this book details the design, construction and factories where Stirlings were produced and the men and women who built them.
The Women's Army Corps
Paperback (350 pages)
The WAC did not always understand the customs and traditions of the Army, just as the Army did not always understand the WAC.
The Carpetbagger Project:
Secret Heroes
Paperback (200 pages)
One of the best-kept secrets of WWII was The Carpetbagger Project, the US 8th Air Force 801st/492nd Bomb Group, code name "Carpetbaggers," that along with British RAF Special Forces, flew highly classified missions to deliver arms, supplies and secret agents into enemy occupied Europe.
Mission:
Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe
Hardcover (400 pages), kindle, audiobook
He was America's boy next door movie star and a recent Academy Award winner who left it all behind to join the United States Army Air Corps and fulfill his family mission to serve his country.
Shot Down:
The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
Paperback (376 pages), kindle, audiobook
The dramatic experiences of the members of a ten-man B-17 bomber crew after their plane, piloted by the author's father, was knocked out of the sky by German fighters over the French/Belgian border on February 8, 1944.
Three Against Hitler
A Compelling True Story of Three LDS Teens' Fight for Freedom
Paperback (184 pages), kindle
The power and indignation of the Third Reich focused on three young German boys who dared to distribute the truth about the war to their neighbors.
Hitler's Traitors:
German Resistance to the Nazis
Paperback (350 pages), kindle
The story of some of the groups and individuals that opposed Hitler and his government and the story of their heroic efforts to rid themselves of the most evil regime in modern times.
Shades of Gray:
Memoirs of a Prussian Saint on the Eastern Front
Paperback (352 pages)
As an artillery spotter on the Eastern Front, Art Naujoks survived Stalingrad, and the horrors of being trapped behind enemy lines. As a Mormon, he was subject to ridicule and contempt from the German public.
Brothers in Valor:
A Story of Resistance
Paperback (166 pages), kindle
Three German boys realize they must fight for a Germany free of Hitler, even though it will put their lives at risk, and so they launch a clandestine propaganda campaign against the regime.
Moroni and the Swastika:
Mormons in Nazi Germany
Hardcover (433 pages), kindle
While the Nazis were persecuting Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving 42 small German religious sects underground, some 14,000 Mormons not only survived, but thrived in Nazi Germany.
Hubener vs Hitler:
A Biography of Helmuth Hubener
Hardcover (594 pages), kindle
From Nazi Germany comes one of the most intriguing true tales of the 20th century: a group of teenage Germans who waged a war of their own against Adolf Hitler.
Fateful Rendezvous:
The Life of Butch O'Hare
Paperback (384 pages), kindle
Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation.
Double Agent:
The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring
Paperback (352 pages), kindle, audiobook
William Sebold, a naturalized American of German birth, risked his life to become the first double agent in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Nazi Rocketeers:
Dreams of Space and Crimes of War
Paperback (272 pages), kindle
How Wernher von Braun and his fellow rocket scientists postponed their initial dreams of space travel to create weapons of terror and mass destruction for the Nazis.
Dr. Space:
The Life of Wernher von Braun
Paperback (328 pages), kindle
The controversial genius Wernher von Braun is a hero to most, yet a villain to others.
Spain in Our Hearts:
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Hardcover (464 pages), kindle
For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini.
The Spanish Civil War:
Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
Paperback (432 pages), kindle
Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship, this surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms.
The Battle for China:
Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
Paperback (664 pages)
Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars are brought together to provide a comprehensive overview of the military operations of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
