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Clark, Alan Barbarossa : The Russian German Conflict 1941-45 Quill paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149686. ISBN #0688042686 / 9780688042684. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Colby, Elbridge First Army in Europe 1943-1945 U.S. Government Printing Office 91st Congress, 1st Session, May23, 1969 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1152350. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Cole, Hubert Pierre Laval: A Biography hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Ex-Library. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or973405. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Colley, David P. Blood for Dignity: The Story of the First Integrated Combat Unit in the U.S. Army St. Martin's Press 2003 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126736. ISBN #0312300352 / 9780312300357. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Colley, David P. Blood for Dignity: The Story of the First Integrated Combat Unit in the U.S. Army St. Martin's Press 2003 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126736. ISBN #0312300352 / 9780312300357. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Meticulously researched and wonderfully suspenseful, Blood for Dignity is the tale of a fascinating and little-known piece of World War II American history, seen through the eyes of 5th Platoon, K Company, 394th Regiment, 99th Division--the first black unit integrated with a white infantry company since the Revolutionary War. David P. Colley paints an absorbing, combat-heavy portrait of these African American and white men fighting together for their country an historical event whose resonance would be felt for generations, and whose lesson would be transposed onto American society, shattering myths and destroying assumptions that had haunted blacks for years. The integration of African American platoons with white combat units at the tail end of World War II almost didn t happen. With the pressing need for more troops and the vision of men such as Dwight Eisenhower, black soldiers who only wanted to fight for their country were finally given the opportunity in March of 1945. The performance of these soldiers laid to rest the accepted white attitude of a century and a half that African Americans were cowardly and inferior fighters. In fact, they proved to be just the opposite. From basic training in the deep south, to hard labor in Europe, these men traveled a long and difficult road before they could take up arms for their country. The 5th of K finally saw combat at the Remagen Bridgehead as they fought side-by-side with white soldiers, driving back a dangerous German army in 1945. Thanks to in-depth interviews with many of those who fought in and alongside the 5th of K, author David P. Colley mixes the horrors of war with the intensely personal in a way that brings us closer to the brave men of this Platoon a group of soldiers whom readers will come to know and admire and not soon forget.
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Colton, Larry No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story Of Four Submariners in War And Love And Life Crown Publishers 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or993960. ISBN #0609610430 / 9780609610435. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Colton, Larry No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story Of Four Submariners in War And Love And Life Crown Publishers 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or993960. ISBN #0609610430 / 9780609610435. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine and themselves after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese. No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing story of four of the Grenadier s crew: Bob Palmer of Medford, Oregon; Chuck Vervalin of Dundee, New York; Tim McCoy of Dallas, Texas; and Gordy Cox of Yakima, Washington. All were enlistees from families that struggled through the Great Depression. The lure of service and duty to country were not their primary motivations they were more compelled by the promise of a job that provided three hots and a cot and a steady paycheck. On the day they were captured, all four were still teenagers. Together, the men faced unimaginable brutality at the hands of their captors in a prisoner of war camp. With no training in how to respond in the face of relentless interrogations and with less than a cup of rice per day for sustenance, each man created his own strategy for survival. When the liberation finally came, all four anticipated a triumphant homecoming to waiting families, loved ones, and wives, but instead were forced to find a new kind of strength as they struggled to resume their lives in a world that had given them up for dead, and with the aftershocks of an experience that haunted and colored the rest of their days. Author Larry Colton brings the lives of these four ordinary heroes into brilliant focus. Theirs is a story of tragedy and courage, romance and war, loss and endurance, failure and redemption. With a scope both panoramic and disarmingly intimate, No Ordinary Joes is a powerful look at the atrocities of war, the reality of its aftermath, and the restorative power of love.
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Conant, Jennet Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon And The Secret Palace Of Science That Changed The Course Of World War II 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106529. ISBN #0684872870 / 9780684872872. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Conant, Jennet Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon And The Secret Palace Of Science That Changed The Course Of World War II 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106529. ISBN #0684872870 / 9780684872872. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring trans-atlantic mission. The British unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with American nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Powerful, handsome, and enormously wealthy, Loomis had for years led a double life, spending his days brokering huge deals and his weekends working with the world's leading scientists in his deluxe private laboratory that was hidden in a massive stone castle. In this dramatic account of a hitherto unexplored but crucial story of the war, Jennet Conant traces one of the world's most extraordinary careers and scientific enterprises. She describes Loomis' phenomenal rise to become one of the Wall Street legends of the go-go twenties. He foresaw the stock market crash of 1929 in time to protect his vast holdings, making a fortune while other bankers were losing their shirts. He rode out the Depression years in high style, and indulged in the hobbies of the fabulously rich. He raced his own America's Cup yacht against the Vanderbilts and Astors, and purchased Hilton Head Island in South Carolina as his private game reserve. Conant writes about the glamour and privilege of his charmed circle as well as Loomis' marriage to a beautiful but depressive wife, whom he sent away for repeated hospitalizations while he pursued a covert affair with his prot g 's young wife. His bitter divorce scandalized New York society and drove Loomis into near seclusion in East Hampton. At the height of his influence on Wall Street, Loomis abruptly retired and devoted himself purely to science. He turned his Tuxedo Park laboratory into the meeting place for the most visionary minds of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, James Franck, Niels Bohr, and Enrico Fermi. With England threatened by invasion, he joined Vannevar Bush, Karl Compton, and the author's grandfather, Harvard president James B. Conant, in mobilizing civilian scientists to defeat Nazi Germany, and personally bankrolled pioneering research into the radar detection systems that ultimately changed the course of World War II. Together with his friend Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning atom smasher, Loomis established a top-secret wartime laboratory at MIT and recruited the most famous names in physics. Through his close ties to his cousin Henry Stimson, who was secretary of war, Loomis was able to push FDR to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create the advanced radar systems that defeated the German Air Force and deadly U-boats, and then to build the first atomic bomb. One of the greatest scientific generals of World War II, Loomis' legacy exists not only in the development of radar but also in his critical role in speeding the day of victor
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Cooper, Duff The Second World War: First Phase Charles Scribner's Sons 1939 hardcover. Some staining to the covers and fore-edge pages. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Scribbling to the back cover.. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1148189. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Cornwell, John Hitler's Pope: The Secret History Of Pius XII Viking 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163171. ISBN #0670886939 / 9780670886937. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Cornwell, John Hitler's Pope: The Secret History Of Pius XII Viking 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163171. ISBN #0670886939 / 9780670886937. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The explosive untold story of the most dangerous churchman in modern history--drawn from secret archives by an award-winning Roman Catholic journalist Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII--a man with unprecedented power for good and evil--was pope from 1939 to 1958. Today, still shadowed by his failure to condemn Hitler's Final Solution, he is at the same time nearing canonization. Backed by new research and exclusive access to a wealth of Vatican and Jesuit archives, John Cornwell tells for the first time, in depth, the truth about Pacelli's long career as a Vatican diplomat and the accord between Pacelli and Hitler that helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power. Hitler's Pope shows how Pacelli's entire life and career led to this, from a brilliant young Vatican lawyer drafting new papal power for the twentieth century to his 1933 Concordat with Hitler that muzzled protest by Germany's Catholic community, the most powerful in the world. Cornwell's explosive conclusion is that without Pacelli's contribution, Hitler might never have come to power or been able to press forward with the Holocaust. As searing and provocative as David Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews or Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, Hitler's Pope conclusively documents Pius XII's anti-Semitism, narcissism, and calamitous mix of political and spiritual ambition--and it shows how many of Pacelli's policies are reasserting themselves today under the reign of John Paul II. It will surely spark a worldwide furor of controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church. "Eugenio Pacelli was not a monster; his case is far more complex, more tragic than that. The interest of his story depends on a fatal combination of high spiritual aspirations in conflict with soaring ambitions for unprecedented power and control."--from the Preface "Pius XII and the Jews . . . the whole thing is too sad and serious for bitterness."--Thomas Merton
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Costello, John Pacific War 1941 - 1945, The: The First Comprehensive One-Volume Account of the Causes and Conduct of World War II in the Pacific Quill 1982 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1164121. ISBN #0688016200 / 9780688016203. (keywords: WORLD WAR 1939 1945 CAMPAIGNS) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Costello, John Pacific War: 1941-1945: The First Comprehensive One-Volume Account Of The Causes And Conduct Of World War II In The Pacific Quill 1982 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138913. ISBN #0688016200 / 9780688016203. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Costello, John Pacific War: 1941-1945: The First Comprehensive One-Volume Account Of The Causes And Conduct Of World War II In The Pacific Quill 1982 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138913. ISBN #0688016200 / 9780688016203. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Aleutians been so brilliantly woven together to provide a clear account of one of the most massive movements of men and arms in history. The complex social, political, and economic causes that underlay the war are here carefully analyzed, impelling the reader to see it as the inevitable conclusion to a series of historical events. And the bloody fighting that indelibly recorded names like Midway and Iwo Jima in the annals of human conflict is described in detail, through its ominous conclusion in the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Costello, John The Pacific War 1941-1945: The Acclaimed One-Volume Account of World War II in the Pacific Harper Perennial 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164846. ISBN #0688016200 / 9780688016203. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Costello, John The Pacific War 1941-1945: The Acclaimed One-Volume Account of World War II in the Pacific Harper Perennial 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164846. ISBN #0688016200 / 9780688016203. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
stock image, actual book may vary John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Aleutians been so brilliantly woven together to provide a clear account of one of the most massive movements of men and arms in history. The complex social, political, and economic causes that underlay the war are here carefully analyzed, impelling the reader to see it as the inevitable conclusion to a series of historical events. And the bloody fighting that indelibly recorded names like Midway and Iwo Jima in the annals of human conflict is described in detail, through its ominous conclusion in the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Cowdrey, Albert E. Fighting For Life: American Military Medicine in World War II 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124931. ISBN #0029068355 / 9780029068359. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Cowdrey, Albert E. Fighting For Life: American Military Medicine in World War II 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124931. ISBN #0029068355 / 9780029068359. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Fought on almost every continent, the Second World War confronted American GIs with unprecedented threats to life and health posed by combat on Arctic ice floes and African deserts, steamy island jungles and remote mountain villages, the stratosphere and the depths of the sea. Service men were assaulted by frostbite, malaria, shrapnel, and landmines. But the demands of war provoked unparalleled medical advances in the years 1941-45, as well. In a war that unleashed the technology of destruction as no previous conflict had, the tale of those whose duty it was to save lives in World War II, not destroy them, has remained untold. Now, award-winning author Albert Cowdrey has written the first comprehensive history of one of the most important yet underappreciated weapons of World War II - America's extraordinary military medicine. Cowdrey tells the remarkable story of how American units developed and implemented new technology under dire pressures, succeeding so brilliantly that World War II became the first American war in which more men died in combat than of disease. Penicillin brought the antibiotic revolution to the battlefield, air evacuation plucked the wounded from jungles and deserts, and a unique system brought blood, still fresh from America, to our soldiers all over the world. Surgeons working just behind the front lines stabilized the worst cases, while physicians and public health experts suppressed epidemics and cured exotic diseases. Psychiatrists, nurses and medics all performed heroic feats amidst unspeakable conditions. Together, these men and women improvised medical miracles on the battlefield that could not have been imagined by practitioners in peacetime. Cowdrey recalls those triumphant years when Americans, blessed with the skill, courage, and dedication of a formidable medical fighting force, achieved a spectacular victory.
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Cowles, Virginia Looking For Trouble Harper & Brothers Publishers 1941 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1147581. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Coyle, David Cushman America National Home Library Foundation 1941 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1148200. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Cronenberg, Allen Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II Alabama 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019909. ISBN #0817307370 / 9780817307370. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Cronenberg, Allen Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II Alabama 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019909. ISBN #0817307370 / 9780817307370. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Details conditions in Alabama and the role of its citizens in a time of military crisis unknown since the Civil War. Alabama and its people played a conspicuous role in World War II. Not only were thousands of servicemen trained at military facilities in the state at Fort McClellan, Camp Rucker, Camp Sibert, Maxwell Air Field, and Tuskegee Army Air Field but Axis prisoners of war were interned in camps on Alabama soil, most notably at Aliceville and Opelika. More than 45,000 Alabama citizens were killed in combat or died as POWs, some came home injured, and many labored in war factories at home.
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Cross, Robin Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich Michael O'Mara Books Limited 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013539. ISBN #1854797360 / 9781854797360. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Cross, Robin Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich Michael O'Mara Books Limited 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013539. ISBN #1854797360 / 9781854797360. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This book provides a view of the closing months of World War II in Europe through to the early days of the Cold War which succeeded it. The year 1945 opens with fighting in Holland and the Lower Rhine. In the East, on 12 January, the greatest offensive of the war begins in fog and snow as the Soviets break through German lines on the Vistula, 125 miles south of Warsaw. Hitler, in his Berlin bunker, does not see the destruction of Dresden. As the Allies march on Berlin they find the evidence of the Nazi concentration camps. With Hitler's suicide, German armies surrender to Eisenhower on the 7th May. The Allies uneasy alliance fractures and the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the Western powers begins. The Soviets blockade Berlin but the city is relieved by a massive airlift. From privates to presidents, "Fallen Eagle" brings to life the personal, political and military dramas which altered the map of Europe for half a century.
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Crouch, Ellis M. Army Letters And Notes To Heaven: Love Letters From World War II 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080033. ISBN #0692027599 / 9780692027592. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Crouch, Ellis M. Army Letters And Notes To Heaven: Love Letters From World War II 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080033. ISBN #0692027599 / 9780692027592. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Army Letters and Notes to Heaven" is a compilation of seventy five actual letters written by an American G.I. to a female pen-pal with whom he falls passionately in love during World War II. The letters are written from various American army bases and while serving overseas in the 1st, 3rd, and 7th armies. From the young woman's first proclamation that she does not know her suitor, to his apology for being so bold as to write her, "Army Letters and Notes to Heaven" is a true story of love, courage, and devotion peppered with questions about promises and the serendipitous fate of the American soldier during World War II. This short, easy to read book is a must for any U.S. Veteran and their family members.
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Curtis, Brian Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War Flatiron Books 2016 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094970. ISBN #1250059585 / 9781250059581. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Curtis, Brian Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War Flatiron Books 2016 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094970. ISBN #1250059585 / 9781250059581. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, North Carolina, out of fear of Japanese attacks on the West Coast. It remains the only Rose Bowl game to ever be played outside of Pasadena. Duke University, led by legendary coach Wallace Wade Sr., faced off against underdog Oregon State College, with both teams preparing for a grueling fight on the football field while their thoughts wandered to the battlefields they would soon be on. As the players and coaches prepared for the game, America was preparing for war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met to discuss the Allied strategy in Europe; a discussion that would change the lives of the boys and men on the field in Durham. Finally, on New Year s Day 1942, under dark gray skies and occasional rain, the two teams clashed on the gridiron in front of a crowd of 56,000, playing one of the most unforgettable games in history. Shortly afterward, many of the players and coaches entered the military and would quickly become brothers on the battlefield. Scattered around the globe, the lives of Rose Bowl participants would intersect in surprising ways, as they served in Iwo Jima and Normandy, Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Bulge. Four players from that Rose Bowl game would lose their lives, while many more were severely wounded. In one powerful encounter on the battlefield, OSC s Frank Parker saved the life of Duke s Charles Haynes as he lay dying on a hill in Italy. And one OSC player, Jack Yoshihara, a Japanese-American, never had the chance to play in the game or serve his country, as he was sent to an internment camp in Idaho. In this riveting an emotional tale, Brian Curtis sheds light on a little-known slice of American history and captures in gripping detail an intimate account of the teamwork, grit, and determination that took place on both the football fields and the battlefields of World War II. It was a game created by infamy and a war fought by ordinary boys who did the extraordinary.
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