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1	Outlander more books like this by Diana Gabaldon add to wishlist While sightseeing, Claire Randall is whisked back through time to the Scottish Highlands of 1743. She marries a fierce Scottish soldier for survival's sake and finds a love that transcends time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hit more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose add to wishlist Historian Ambrose tells of the combat experiences of soldiers in the crack U.S. Army Airborne division that led the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. The interviews on which this book is based were conducted by Ambrose as research for his book, D-DAY. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society more books like this by Annie Fiery Barrows, Mary Ann Fiery Shaffer add to wishlist London, 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of Guernsey during the German occupation, and about a society as extraordinary as its name. see all copies from $5.17! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands more books like this by Chelsea Handler add to wishlist In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. see all copies from $8.29! new only from $8.29! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Boy in the Striped Pajamas more books like this by John Boyne add to wishlist Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II more books like this by Robert Kurson add to wishlist The perilous, obsessive world of the deep-sea diver is revealed in this true account of a six-year quest begun in 1991 to recover items from and discover the identity of a World War II U-boat sunk off the coast of New Jersey, a place where the history books said no such ship should be. As a team of divers explores the twisted wreck underwater and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II more books like this by Doris Kearns Goodwin add to wishlist A chronicle of the US and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. It narrates the interrelationships between the inner workings of the Roosevelt White House and the destiny of the US, painting a portrait that fills in a historical gap in the story of America under Roosevelt. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa more books like this by Eugene B Sledge add to wishlist This World War II memoir by a former U. S. Marine is highly regarded by historians and former soldiers alike for its veracity and style. Sledge recounts his experiences in the Pacific campaigns, especially the (very bloody) landings on Peleliu and Okinawa. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $4.62! \| SVS
9	Cryptonomicon more books like this by Neal Stephenson add to wishlist Weaving between two separate time lines, this novel depicts the adventures of a codebreaker, a Japanese lieutenant, and a U.S. Marine in World War II with the modern-day tale of their grandchildren, who are jointly investigating a mysterious computer program in Southeast Asia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Madonnas of Leningrad more books like this by Debra Dean add to wishlist Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. see all copies from $2.47! new only from $6.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 more books like this by Rick Atkinson (Read by) add to wishlist In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Greatest Generation more books like this by Tom Brokaw add to wishlist Accompanying an NBC television special, this title features the American men and women who were born in the 1920s, experienced the unique circumstances of a World War, and went on to become the parents of the "baby boomers." Award-winning anchorman Brokaw has reported on many of the world's major news events since he began his career with NBC News ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Night more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Wiesel's account of his own experiences in the camps during World War II has become a classic of the genre. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Tale of Love and Darkness more books like this by Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator) add to wishlist Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Exodus more books like this by Leon Uris add to wishlist A sweeping historical novel of the events and characters surrounding the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in Palestine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Catch-22 more books like this by Joseph L Heller (Preface by) add to wishlist Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance more books like this by David Howarth, Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Introduction by) add to wishlist The incredible story of a Norwegian commando saved from the Nazis by residents of a small arctic village--an astonishing true story of heroism and endurance. Photos throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure more books like this by Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup add to wishlist This World War II history tells of the inventive and sometimes risky effort by the French to preserve their cultural heritage and to keep their wines from falling into Nazi hands during the occupation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Introduction by) add to wishlist An oral history of the last European campaigns of the Second World War, from the landings at Normandy to the final surrender of the Axis powers. Ambrose, who has already chronicled the Second World War in UNDAUNTED COURAGE and D_DAY, concentrates on the experiences of the ordinary soldier in the ranks, and makes use of hundreds of interviews ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath more books like this by Michael Norman, Elizabeth M Norman add to wishlist For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $17.19! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Sacrifice more books like this by Beverly Lewis add to wishlist Abram's Daughters book 3, the sequel to the bestselling The Betrayal. This powerful family saga features four Amish courting-age sisters growing up in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, beginning in the 1940s. Life in Gobbler's Knob was all Leah Ebersol ever wanted until her older sister Sadie abandoned faith and family, leaving Leah no choice but to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	War and Remembrance more books like this by Herman Wouk add to wishlist This novel continues the story begun in "The Winds of War", following the dispersed lives of the Henry clan from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Farewell to Arms more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist Hemingway's second full-length novel, published in 1929, calls on his own experiences during World War I, when he worked for the Red Cross in Italy, was wounded after only six weeks on duty, and recuperated in a hospital in Milan, where he had a romance with a nurse. The blend of fact and imagination in A FAREWELL TO ARMS, however, is artful; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Ordinary Men more books like this by Christopher R Browning add to wishlist This study is an account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Browning tells about such Germans, and helps the reader to understand, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen, but also how they were transformed psychologically, from the ordinary men of the title into ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $6.54! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II more books like this by Jeff Shaara add to wishlist A master of the historical novel, Shaara begins an ambitious trilogy about the conflict that defined the 20th century. With painstaking historical detail and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events of World War II in brilliant detail. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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