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Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys:

Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys:

An American Woman in World War II

Paperback (320 pages)

Elizabeth Richardson, a Red Cross volunteer who worked as a Clubmobile hostess, provided a touch of home to American soldiers in England and France. It required both physical endurance and the skills of a trained counselor.

Big Week:

Big Week:

Six Days that Changed the Course of World War II

Paperback (320 pages), kindle

They ran the gauntlet of the most heavily defended air space in the world to deal a death blow to Germany's aircraft industry.

Black Thursday:

Black Thursday:

The Story Of The Schweinfurt Raid

Paperback (304 pages), kindle

At a time when the B-17's flew with little or no fighter escort, and the German Luftwaffe had not yet been all but chased from the sky, the 8th Air Force launched a raid on the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, Germany. The result is a story that is at once tragic and heroic.

Resistance and Betrayal:

Resistance and Betrayal:

The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance

Hardcover (320 pages), kindle

Jean Moulin's story remains full of unanswered questions, the truth of his life being far more complicated than the legend of him that grew after the war.

Rommel

Rommel

A Reappraisal

Hardcover (192 pages), kindle

In his own time and in the years immediately after the war Rommel's reputation as a great and chivalrous commander grew to the point where it took on almost legendary proportions, and the legend is still with us today.

Siege: Malta 1940-1943

Siege: Malta 1940-1943

Paperback (248 pages), kindle, audiobook

A vivid picture of the suffering of the island of Malta and its population during one of the longest sieges in history

GI Jews:

GI Jews:

How World War II Changed a Generation

Hardcover, paperback (268 pages)

Whether they came from Sioux Falls or the Bronx, over half a million Jews entered the US armed forces during the Second World War.

Major General Maurice Rose:

Major General Maurice Rose:

World War II's Greatest Forgotten Commander

Hardcover, paperback (464 pages), kindle

General Rose, one of the greatest, most decorated battlefield Armor commanders in WWII, was tragically killed when surrounded by and captured by German troops.

Exercise Tiger:

Exercise Tiger:

The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Silent Few

Hardcover (256 pages), kindle

The "forgotten" story of the tragic deaths of hundreds of US servicemen off the coast of England during rehearsals for the D-day invasion.

Hitler's Preemptive War:

Hitler's Preemptive War:

The Battle for Norway, 1940

Paperback (600 pages), kindle, audiobook

The brief but violent campaign to prevent the British from exerting control of the coastline of neutral Norway, while still fine-tuning his plans against France.

Quisling:

Quisling:

A Study in Treachery

Paperback (472 pages)

The word "Quisling" has been used as a synonym for "traitor" or "treachery," thanks to the Norwegian army officer who eagerly sided with the Nazis on the first day of Norway's entry into the Second World War.

Ghosts of the ETO:

Ghosts of the ETO:

American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater, 1944 - 1945

Paperback (352 pages), kindle

The ghosts of the European theater in World War II were members of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops who worked to deceive the Germans on the battlefield.

The Deceivers:

The Deceivers:

Allied Military Deception in the Second World War

Paperback (1,168 pages), kindle

Meticulously feeding misinformation to Axis intelligence, the Allies employed unprecedented methods and practiced the most successful military deception ever seen.

Battle Of Wits:

Battle Of Wits:

The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

Paperback (448 pages)

From the Battle of Midway until the last German code was broken in January 1945, this is an astonishing epic of a war that was won not simply by brute strength but also by reading the enemy's intentions.

32 CoPilots

32 CoPilots

Paperback (296 pages)

No bomb group in WWII lost as many aircraft and crew members in a three month period.

Hitler's Austria:

Hitler's Austria:

Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945

Paperback (336 pages)

Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations.

Grey Wolves:

Grey Wolves:

The U-Boat War 1939-1945

Hardcover (240 pages), kindle, audiobook

To the Allies, the elite force of German submariners was embarking on a mission of unequivocal evil.

Marines in World War II

Marines in World War II

The Recapture of Guam

Kindle (~437 pages)

Captured by the Japanese soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam was retaken in 1944, but not easily.

No Surrender!:

No Surrender!:

Seven Japanese WWII Soldiers Who Refused to Surrender After the War

Paperback (108 pages), kindle

For a Japanese soldier to choose not to surrender, but go into hiding and become a holdout, meant deprivation, hardship and shame, which for some lasted 10 to 30 years.

Princes of Darkness:

Princes of Darkness:

The Lives of Two Luftwaffe Night Fighter Aces

Hardcover (96 pages)

An illustrated account of the careers of two fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe's night fighter force, both killed in action.

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