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Radar Origins Worldwide:
History of Its Evolution in 13 Nations Through World War II
Paperback (420 pages), kindle
Each country working on the development of radar believed that it was its own development and held the technology in highest secrecy.
The Dictators:
Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
Paperback (928 pages)
Their lethal regimes murdered millions and fought a massive, deadly war. Yet their dictatorships took shape within formal constitutional structures and drew the support of the German and Russian people.
Gandhi the Man:
How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World
Paperback (200 pages), kindle, audiobook
An unsuccessful young lawyer becomes the Mahatma, the "great soul" and leads 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the British Empire. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today.
Doctors from Hell:
The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
Paperback (318 pages), kindle
The chilling account of 23 men torturing and killing by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.
Operation Archery
The Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1941
Paperback (80 pages)
The Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy on the Norwegian coast offered the first true combined operation carried out by British forces involving the Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.
Blitz:
The Story of December 29, 1940
Hardcover (448 pages)
Determined to bomb the English into submission, the German Luftwaffe attacked London nearly every night, targeting the heart of the city and the site of some of its greatest landmarks.
Patton's Unsung Armor of the Ardennes:
The Tenth Armored Division's Secret Dash to Bastogne
Paperback (106 pages)
The amazing, historic military accomplishment of Patton's Third Army's 10th Armored Division that secretly roared 75 miles north overnight, flung its tanks in front of the German panzers at besieged Bastogne and saved the day.
Leningrad:
The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Paperback (512 pages), kindle
Leningrad was surrounded by German forces and the siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Nuts! The Battle of the Bulge:
The Story and Photographs
Paperback (208 pages)
Hitler was convinced that if the invading Allies were struck a shattering blow, their unity would collapse and he would salvage victory from the jaws of his ineptitude.
If the Allies Had Fallen:
Sixty Alternate Scenarios of WWII
Paperback (304 pages), kindle, audiobook
From the Munich crisis and the dropping of the atom bombs to Hitler’s declaration of war on the US and the D-Day landings, historians suggest "what might have been" if key events in World War II had gone differently.
Spying on Ireland:
British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality during the Second World War
Paperback (360 pages), kindle
How Britain dealt with challenges in Ireland through a combination of diplomacy, covert gathering of intelligence, propaganda, and intimidation.
In Time of War:
Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-1945
Paperback (672 pages)
A fascinating study of Ireland during WWII and their struggle to maintain neutrality.
Most Secret War
Paperback (608 pages)
How Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their science and technology in the "Battle of the Beams."
No Ordinary Time:
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Paperback (768 pages), kindle, audiobook
Pulitzer Prize winning chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States and an intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt during a time in which a new, modern America was born.
Beria:
Stalin's First Lieutenant
Paperback (338 pages)
Lavrentii Beria came to symbolize all the evils of Stalinism, yet eventually found himself a victim of Soviet purges, too.
Fatal Crossroads:
The Untold Story of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge
Paperback (432 pages), kindle
Reconstruction of the story of the largest single atrocity committed against American POWs on the Western front in World War II.
Strange Company:
Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II
Paperback (320 pages), kindle
While an immense twentieth century war was raging on Earth, there appeared to be someone, or something, from somewhere else, watching us.
The Winter War:
Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939-1940
Paperback (352 pages), kindle
The Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army. But Finland held out for 105 bitterly cold, fiercely combative days, until a peace agreement ended the short, savage Winter War.
The Rape Of Nanking:
The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II
Paperback (360 pages), kindle, audiobook
The eastern Chinese city of Nanking served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia, with a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
