Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows   A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.“Treat yourself to...

Mark BowdenOn October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of...

Maritz SpaarwaterA Spook's Progress: From Making War to Making PeaceThis book is an account of the career of a former South African intelligence agent, from his stint in the SADF...

Benjamin Sutherland

Sara PennypackerNational Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the YearFinally in paperback! This handsome edition features French flaps.From bestselling and award-winning author...

Geoggrey C Ward and Ken BurnsThe vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who...

John L RansomJohn Ransom, Brigade Quartermaster of the Ninth Michigan Calvary, was only 20 years old when he became a prisoner of war in eastern Tennessee in 1863. He had...

Harold FaberAt the beginning of World War II the German Air Force was considered the finest in the world. But was it? The Treaty of Versailles had condemned the German...

Norman EisenA sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses--and the lives of its occupantsWhen Norman Eisen...

Zeev BarmatzThis book shatters the widely-held belief that the Jews of Europe in WWII died "like sheep to the slaughter." Through riveting stories, with the help of first-hand accounts, Heroism...

Michelle MagorianYoung Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of...

Patricia Reilly GiffAuthor Patricia Reilly Giff's Newbery Honor-winning Lily's Crossing is now available for the first time in paperback!Every summer Lily and her father go to her family's house in...