The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
By: Phillip Hoose
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nati…
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1. The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
By: Neal Bascomb
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final So… read more
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2. A Brief History of Montmaray (The Montmaray Journals, #1)
By: Michelle Cooper
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
"There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings." Sophie FitzOsbor… read more
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3. Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
By: Steve Sheinkin
4.13
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next t… read more
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"She was too well-trained to panic."-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
"When do I start?" is the most refreshing thing I've heard in this whole war."-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
"Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots."-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
"Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and disc…"-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
4. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell … read more
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5. The War Poems
By: Siegfried Sassoon
3.81
Format: 343 pages,
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this boo… read more
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6. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
By: Harrison E. Salisbury
3.88
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II… read more
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7. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
By: Phillip Hoose
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nati… read more
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8. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
By: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Ma… read more
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9. The Boy Who Dared
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany… read more
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10. The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped thei… read more
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11. The Greatest Generation
By: Tom Brokaw
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documenta… read more
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12. Loot (Loot #1)
By: Jude Watson
4.28
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQ… read more
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13. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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14. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
15. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
16. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 470 pages, ebook
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more
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"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
17. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
By: Alan Gratz
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degr… read more
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18. Allies
By: Alan Gratz
4.27
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Alan Gratz weaves an array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyran… read more
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19. A Night Divided
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.34
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her… read more
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"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light"-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
"If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
"Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . ."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
20. Making Bombs for Hitler
By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is n… read more
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21. Resistance
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.32
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in dange… read more
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"In the knowing, there was peace."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance
"But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance
