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  • Rising Son

    A US Soldier's Secret and Heroic Role in World War II

    by Sandra Vea ...
    The remarkable World War II biography of a Japanese American who served in a top-secret team tasked with subduing Japanese Imperial soldiers during the Pacific WarMasao Abe was a second-generation Japanese American who was swept up in the momentum of history during World War II. Born in southern California but educated as a teenager in Japan during the 1930s, he returned to the US and was drafted ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Thunder on Bataan

    The First American Tank Battles of World War II

    by Donald L Caldwell ...
    "An incisive, readable account of a group of National Guard tankers who fought in the Philippines in the opening phase of America's war in the Pacific." —Robert S. Cameron, Ph.D., military historian and author of Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army's Armor Branch, 1917-1945The American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beginning Or the End

    How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    by Greg Mitchell ...
    The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

    by Adrienne Berard ...
    A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • War's End

    An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

    by Charles W. Sweeney, USAF, James A. Antonucci, Marion K. Antonucci ...
    On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion. In the belly of his bomber, Bock's Car, was a newly developed, fully armed weapon that had ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    by Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Bones of My Grandfather

    Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II

    by Clay Bonnyman Evans ...
    “War, reclamation, and what Tim O'Brien called "the Lives of the Dead" are eternal literary themes for men. Clay Bonnyman Evans has honored that lineage with this masterful melding of military history and personal quest.”—Ron Powers, co-author of New York Times #1 bestsellers Flags of Our Fathers and True Compass, along with No One Cares About Crazy People and othersIn November 1943, Marine 1st Lt ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Book Row

    An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

    by Marvin Mondlin, Roy Meador ...
    The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960sNew York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers’ Row, or Book Row.This richly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Infamy

    The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

    by Richard Reeves ...
    A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE**Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II.“Highly readable. . . . [A] vivid and instructive reminder of what war and fear can do to civilized people.”**—The New York Times Book Review</p... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Sherman's March

    by Burke Davis ...
    A New York Times–bestselling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War.In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to "make Georgia howl." The hero of Shiloh and his 65,000 Federal troops destroyed the great city of Atlanta, captured Savannah, and cut a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blowback

    America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy

    by Christopher Simpson ...
    Series Book 4 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A searing account of a dark "chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies" ( Library Journal).Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sons of Molly Maguire

    The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

    by Mark Bulik ...
    Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires. A secret society of peasant assassins in Ireland that re-emerged in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal region, the Mollies organized strikes, murdered mine ... Read more

    $19.99 USD