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Patton's One-Minute Messages:

Tactical Leadership Skills of Business Managers

Paperback (112 pages), kindle

This collection of General Patton's "one liners" shows how business managers can succeed by applying the combat tested principles of one of America's greatest military leaders.

Soldier Dead:

How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen

Paperback (376 pages), kindle

A thorough analysis of the processes of recovery, identification, return, burial, and remembrance of those that have fallen in combat.

B-29: Superfortress:

Giant Bomber of World War Two and Korea

Hardcover (256 pages), kindle

Very large and a very advanced bomber for its time, it included a pressurized cabin, an electronic fire-control system and remote-controlled machine-gun turrets.

Zoot Suit:

The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style

Hardcover (248 pages), kindle

Created by poor African American men and obscure tailors, the "drape shape" was embraced by Mexican American pachucos, working-class youth, entertainers, and swing dancers, yet condemned by the US government as wasteful and unpatriotic in a time of war.

Hitler's Hangman:

The Life of Heydrich

Paperback (416 pages), kindle

Widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, Reinhard Heydrich was an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership.

Double Cross:

The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Paperback (416 pages), kindle, audiobook

Operation Fortitude and the Double Cross system were the most sophisticated deception operations ever carried out, ensuring Allied success on D-Day.

Last Team Standing:

How the Steelers and the Eagles - the 'Steagles' - Saved Pro Football During World War II

Paperback (288 pages), kindle

With the army drafting their players, the Steelers and Eagles kept football alive by merging to become the "Steagles" for the 1943 season.

Dambusters -

Operation Chastise 1943

Paperback (64 pages), kindle

A specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on history by flying a high-risk, low-level, nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry.

Enigma:

The Battle for the Code

Paperback (448 pages), kindle

Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code "the secret weapon that won the war."

The Day Peace Broke Out:

The VE-Day Experience

Paperback (192 pages), kindle

The perceptions of how victory was to be celebrated and what post-war Britain should look like were very different from the visions the people and the politicians had in 1940.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

Paperback (320 pages), kindle

If you're going to read this book, you should start at the very beginning (a very good place to start).

Frank M. Andrews:

Marshall's Airman

Paperback (32 pages), kindle

The magnitude of the tragic loss of Lt Gen Andrews to the Allied war effort was characterized by Gen George Marshall by describing him as one of the nation’s "few great captains."

The Gestapo:

A History of Horror

Paperback (384 pages), kindle, audiobook

Chronicle of how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art, written by a victim of the Gestapo, from interviews with former Gestapo agents.

The Blackout 1939-45

Kindle only (~25 pages)

Reports and eyewitness accounts of what it was like to live through the Blackout in Britain during WWII.

A Flawed Genius:

Field Marshal Walter Model, A Critical Biography

Hardcover (304 pages), kindle

Model was one of the most brutal of German Generals, and the higher he rose in rank, the more offensive his behavior became.

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.