Lockheed Constellation

Hardcover (144 pages)

Designed just before WWII after special requirements from the American tycoon Howard Hughes, the Lockheed Constellation passenger liner is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machine ever built; plus it had a respectable military career.

Lightning Strike:

The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor

Paperback (400 pages), kindle

The story of the man behind Pearl Harbor and the courageous young American fliers who flew the million-to-one suicide mission that shot him down.

The War Against the Jews:

1933-1945

Paperback (467 pages), kindle

An unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity.

The War Against the Jews:

1933-1945

Paperback (1,487 pages), kindle

A definitive and comprehensive book on one of history's darkest chapters.

Man's Most Dangerous Myth:

The Fallacy of Race

Paperback (467 pages), kindle

Way ahead of its time in 1942, and breaking the link between genetics and culture, this book still contributes essential and salient perspectives as we face the ongoing issue of race.

B-24 Liberator Units of the Fifteenth Air Force

Paperback (96 pages), kindle

The men flying the B-24 Liberators in the 15th Air Force fought ceaselessly right through to V-E Day, with missions over the Ploesti oilfields being some of the deadliest undertaken by the "heavies."

Bishop of the Resistance:

A Life of Eivind Berggrav, Bishop of Oslo, Norway

Paperback (222 pages)

Bishop Berggrav orchestrated a mass protest against Nazi tyranny in Occupied Norway, sending a powerful message to the people that tyrants would not be obeyed - no matter what the price.

The Rape of Europa:

The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

Paperback (512 pages), kindle

From da Vinci to Picasso, the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.

The Georgian rebellion on Texel

Paperback (72 pages)

Knowing that Stalin will show no compassion toward them, captured Georgian troops serving with the German army on the Dutch island of Texel revolt and Europe's final battlefield of WWII erupts.

Sky Rider:

The Story of Evelyn Sharp, World War II WASP

Paperback (186 pages)

One of only ten women flight instructors in the US, she flew nearly every airplane in the Army Air Forces inventory and taught flying to over 350 men in the Government's pre-WWII Civilian Pilot Training Program.

Planning the Home Front:

Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run

Hardcover (376 pages), kindle

The bomber plant at Willow Run attracted tens of thousands of workers from across the US to help build the nation's "Arsenal of Democracy."

Death Dealer:

The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz

Paperback (414 pages), kindle

History's greatest mass murderer personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people at the death camp at Auschwitz.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:

A History of Nazi Germany

Paperback (1,280 pages), kindle, audiobook

This monumental study of Hitler’s empire is widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century's blackest hours.

A Hero Not Forgotten:

The Combat Diary Of Sgt Michael Botsko

Paperback (110 pages), kindle

Sgt Blotsko gives a vivid account of his 35 courageous missions in a B-17 ball turret over the deadly skies of Europe.

Too Close For Comfort

Paperback (150 pages), kindle

On April 28, 1945, 50 miles south of Okinawa, a Japanese kamikaze pilot rammed his bomb-filled plane into the US Navy hospital ship Comfort.

The Most Noble Adventure:

The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild Europe

Paperback (464 pages), kindle

A character-driven history that tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild war-ravaged Western Europe.

The Nazi Voter:

The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933

Paperback (383 pages), kindle

A systematic examination of Nazi campaign strategy - who voted for Hitler's Nazi party and why.

Waking to Danger:

Americans and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941

Hardcover (222 pages), kindle

American public opinion about Germany spiraled from ignorance and isolationism to a sense of danger and interventionism.

The Great Oil Conspiracy:

How the US Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American People

Paperback (176 pages), kindle, audiobook

Although it came too late, Nazi Germany's scientists did unlock the secrets to developing all the synthetic oil they needed to wage war. Yet their confiscated documents remained largely ignored in the US.

The Zoot-Suit Riots:

The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation

Paperback (179 pages), kindle

In the end no one was killed, few were seriously injured and property damage was slight and yet, even today, the zoot-suit riots are remembered and hold emotional and symbolic significance for Mexican Americans and Anglos alike.