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A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Mrazek
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A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Mrazek
$21.30One of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical victories at Midway and Guadalcanal. These 35 American men–many flying outmoded aircraft–changed the course of history, going on to become the war’s most decorated naval air squadron, while suffering the heaviest losses in U.S. naval aviation history.
Mrazek paints moving portraits of the men in the squadron, and exposes a shocking cover-up that cost many lives. Filled with thrilling scenes of battle, betrayal, and sacrifice, A DAWN LIKE THUNDER is destined to become a classic in the literature of World War II.
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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss
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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss
$19.00The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrested by French police, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way, meeting at different points, in prison, in transit, and at Ravensbrück. By the time they were enslaved at the labor camp in Leipzig, they were a close-knit group of friends. During the final days of the war, forced onto a death march, the nine chose their moment and made a daring escape.
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
$19.20#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis
One of Chicago Tribune’s Best Books of the Year So Far • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR
“Churchill’s lessons of resilience and his style of steady-handed leadership are essential to the state of mind of American readers.”—Vanity Fair
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$15.12WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
$15.99Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
$13.99NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award.
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