599 items in the WWII Store
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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.
Then & Now
The Sheffield Blitz
Kindle only (~107 pages)
Anyone too young to remember WWII may find it hard to imagine just how devastated Sheffield was by two German raids in December 1940.
What If?
The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Paperback (416 pages), kindle
Armchair quarterbacking in hindsight. Pointless? Fruitless? Perhaps. But when played well, the "what if" game can be very eye opening.
Master of Airpower:
General Carl A. Spaatz
Paperback (430 pages), kindle
A quiet, unpretentious man, Spaatz was not a colorful figure but he was a first-class military leader and organizer.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
DVD 2-discs
The real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos, and the immense destruction of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Lindbergh vs Roosevelt:
The Rivalry That Divided America
Hardcover (270 pages), kindle, audiobook
Was Charles Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite? Or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt?
The Clash:
US - Japanese Relations Throughout History
Paperback (544 pages)
The disagreements, tensions and skirmishes between a closely knit society terrified of disorder and an open-ended society that continually seeks an international marketplace.
We Remember the Home Guard
Hardback (384 pages), kindle, audiobook
Their weapons and ammunition were negligible at first, but slowly these amateur soldiers began to produce professional results.
V for Victory:
America's Home Front During World War II
Paperback (408 pages)
A superb collection of reprinted ads, posters, memorabilia, articles, and photos providing an intimate look at America's home front.
Design for Victory:
World War II Posters on the American Home Front
Paperback (120 pages)
A colorful, informative and inspirational collection of over 150 WWII-era posters focuses on the theme of wartime production on the home front.
Frontline -
Memory of the Camps
DVD
From PBS Home Video: No other film about WWII, fictional or non-fictional, captures the horror of the concentration camps as simply and powerfully as this.
Nazi Concentration Camps / Nuremburg Trials
DVD
The mother of all horror films, shown at the Nuremburg trials.
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Paperback (528 pages), audiobook
A narrative history of the nuclear attack told from both the Japanese and American viewpoints. The bombs were "our least abhorrent choice," American leaders claimed at the time.
Whispering Death:
Australian Airmen in the Pacific War
Paperback (536 pages)
Australia's flight to victory was never smooth. But, more than 130,000 Australian airmen fought Japan from the Pacific War's first hours in 1941 to its last in 1945.
Casablanca
DVD, Blu-ray
A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason.
Soldier Dogs:
The Untold Story of America's Canine Heroes
Paperback (304 pages), kindle, audiobook
A dog's natural intelligence, physical abilities, and pure loyalty contribute more to our military efforts than ever before.
Silent Heroes:
The Bravery & Devotion of Animals in War
Paperback (240 pages)
Animal lovers and history buffs will delight at this marvelous collection documenting the fearless creatures that went beyond training and duty to display selfless acts of devotion to man during wartime.
Loyal Forces:
The American Animals of World War II
Hardcover (192 pages)
The use of American animals during WWII further demonstrates the resourcefulness of the US military and the many sacrifices that led to the Allies victory.
The Cairo Conference of 1943
Paperback (207 pages), kindle
Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo, 22-27 Nov 1943, to discuss the future of the war in the China-Burma-India Theater and postwar plans after Japan's defeat.
