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.

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.

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.

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.

Tirpitz:

The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship

Hardcover (256 pages), kindle, audiobook

The story of the battleship Tirpitz - Bismarck's sister ship - and the desperate Allied efforts to destroy it.

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 Phantom Army of Alamein:

How the Camouflage Unit Hoodwinked Rommel

Hardcover (288 pages), paperback, kindle, audiobook

Renowned stage magician Jasper Maskelyne and his "Magic Gang" used their skills to weave intricate webs of deception, making things appear that weren't actually there, and things that were, disappear, to deceive the enemy.

Those Angry Days:

Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

Paperback (576 pages), kindle, audiobook

The debate over American intervention in WWII was a bitter clash of personalities and ideas that divided the nation and ultimately determined the fate of the free world.

The Last Battle:

When US and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe

Paperback (256 pages), kindle, audiobook

Anti-Nazi German troops join forces with American soldiers to fight off a Waffen-SS Panzer division trying to recapture a castle fortress in the Austrian Alps where 14 VIP French prisoners had been held. It is the only time that American and German troops join forces in combat in World War II.

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.

Freedom's Forge:

How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

Hardcoer (432 pages), kindle, audiobook

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty.

Embracing Defeat:

Japan in the Wake of World War II

Hardcover (688 pages), paperback, kindle, audiobook

Where America's war against Japan lasted less than 4 years, Japan had been fighting for 15 and was left in ruins. The collapse of Japan's authoritarian state enabled America's six-year occupation to set Japan in entirely new directions.

With Every Letter

by Sarah Sundin

Paperback (432 pages), kindle, audiobook

Lt Mellie Blake reluctantly enters into an anonymous correspondence with an officer which develops into a unique friendship despite not knowing the other's true identity.

Bonhoeffer:

Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Hardcover (624 pages), paperback, kindle, audiobook

As Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a humble man of faith.

A Measureless Peril:

America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II

Paperback (368 pages), kindle, audiobook

In that global conflagration, only one battle — the struggle for the Atlantic — lasted from the very first hours of the conflict to its final day. Hitler knew that victory depended on controlling the sea-lanes where American food and fuel and weapons flowed to the Allies.

Secret Germany:

Stauffenberg and the True Story of Operation Valkyrie

Paperback (432 pages), kindle, audiobook

An exhilarating and definitive portrait of the anti-Nazi movement (called "Secret Germany") that almost killed Hitler, thus prolonging a further pointless year of war and the deaths of millions more.

The Night of the Long Knives:

Forty-Eight Hours That Changed the History of the World

Paperback (240 pages), audiobook

The story of how Hitler seized control in Germany during his ruthless quest for world domination by murdering SA head Ernst Röhm and other "enemies of the party" and consolidating his power.

Freedom Flyers:

The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

Paperback (258 pages), audiobook

The legacy of a determined, visionary cadre of African American airmen who proved their capabilities and patriotism beyond question, transformed the armed forces and jump-started the modern struggle for racial equality.

The Guns at Last Light:

The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

Hardcover (897 pages), kindle, audiobook

The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe, finishing up the first two volumes which recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory.

We Die Alone:

A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

Paperback (496 pages), kindle, audiobook

An unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit. If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of its hero as too fantastic to be taken seriously.