The Diary of a Young Girl

The Definitive Edition

Paperback (352 pages), kindle, audiobook

The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. In a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions.

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).

My Rise And Fall

by Benito Mussolini

Paperback (530 pages)

Two rare autobiographical works in one volume by Benito Mussolini, founder of Fascism and dictator over Italy for twenty-one years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Daughter of the Air:

The Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort

Paperback (246 pages)

In a remarkable coincidence of fate, Cornelia Fort was flying over Oahu on the morning of December 7, 1941, and was one of the few to witness the bombing of Pearl Harbor from the air.

My Hometown Concentration Camp:

A Survivor's Account to Life in the Krakow Ghetto and Plaszow Concentration Camp

Paperback (133 pages)

Young Bernard Offen's story of endurance and survival of the Krakow Ghetto and five concentration camps.

The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery

Paperback (574 pages), kindle

Monty tells his side of the story of the momentous battles against the enemy - and, sadly, the Allies - as he strove for victory in WWII.

Looking Like the Enemy:

My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps

Paperback (240 pages), kindle

At 16, she faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire along with her family and 110,000 others of Japanese ancestry and had to struggle for survival and dignity.

Frauen:

German Women Recall the Third Reich

Paperback (536 pages), kindle

Twenty-nine German women from a wide spectrum of circumstances recall memories of life under the Third Reich.

Mother Flies Hurricanes

by E M Singer

Paperback (875 pages)

An historical novel about women pilots who fly during WWII, the central character being the son of one of the British woman ferry pilots.

Prague Winter:

A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

Paperback (480 pages), kindle, audiobook

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's moving memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War.

Malta Spitfire:

The Diary of an Ace Fighter Pilot

Paperback (256 pages)

Canadian George Beurling truly had powers beyond those of mere mortals when he was in the cockpit of a Spitfire, going up against superior numbers of German and Italians fighters.

Profiles in Courage

by John F Kennedy

Hardcover (304 pages), paperback, audiobook

JFK's inspiring true accounts of 8 unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures in our nation's history, hiss book became required reading, an instant classic, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

The Fighting Liberty Ships:

A Memoir

Hardcover (166 pages), paperback

A very readable book about the armed guard on Liberty Ships. It gives good insight on what it was like serving on a Liberty Ship during WWII.

When a Nation Forgets God:

7 Lessons We Must Learn from Nazi Germany

Paperback (160 pages), kindle

When given a choice, people will choose bread and sausage above the free market and individual liberties. The promise of bread gets votes, even if the bread is at the expense of freedom.

Black Sheep One:

The Life of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington

Paperback (512 pages), kindle

Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and WWII hero Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. When the shooting stopped, the stubbornly independent Boyington lived a life that went beyond what even the most imaginative might have expected.

Reach for the Sky:

The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain

Paperback (320 pages), audiobook

After losing both legs in an air crash in 1931 and being dismissed as a cripple by the Royal Air Force, Douglas Bader fought his way back into the cockpit of a Spitfire to become one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain.