WWII

War And Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 (FDR at War #3) (Hardcover)

By Nigel Hamilton

Not Available

ISBN: 9780544876804

Availability: Available to Order from Supplier: Arrives at Store in a Week(ish)

Published: Mariner Books - May 7th, 2019

 

The final title of Hamilton’s 3-volume biography of FDR as commander-in-chief is a triumph. Compulsively readable yet with a masterful command of his source material, Hamilton gives us a fresh and detailed view of the last two dramatic years of FDR’s life from the wartime summit in Tehran, through the landings at D-Day, his election to a fourth term and the dying president’s  final Big Three conference at Yalta.

 

Dale

Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War (Paperback)

By Lynne Olson

Not Available

ISBN: 9780812987164

Availability: Email online@portersquarebooks.com to Check Availability

Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 6th, 2018

 

From the queen of The Netherlands to the Earl of Suffolk, Paratroopers to civilians turned underground rebels, traitors to double agents, the victories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies of the resistance during WW2.

 

John

Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory (Hardcover)

By Michael Korda

Not Available

ISBN: 9781631491320

Availability: Email online@portersquarebooks.com to Check Availability

Published: Liveright - September 19th, 2017

If you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s film, Dunkirk, and want to learn more, try Alone. Korda’s book is a compelling and detailed examination of the events leading up to the beginning of World War II through the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk interspersed with Korda’s own memoir of his illustrious, movie-making, emigre family.

Dale

My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War (Paperback)

By Anne Sinclair, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by)

Not Available

ISBN: 9781250074775

Availability: Available to Order from Supplier: Arrives at Store in a Week(ish)
Because of how it is sold to us we cannot accept a return of this title.

Published: Picador - October 6th, 2015

Author and French television host Anne Sinclair tells the story of her grandfather, Paul Rosenberg, the celebrated French art dealer, who fled the Nazis during World War II. Part of the legendary Paris art scene, Rosenberg knew intimately Picasso, Matisse, Braque and others and his story paints a fascinating tale of war, betrayal, and ultimately, triumph.

Nathan

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation (Hardcover)

By Anne Sebba

Not Available

ISBN: 9781250048592

Availability: Out of Print

Published: St. Martin's Press - October 18th, 2016

Paris 1940’s. Les Parisiennes tells the remarkable story of the heroic women of Paris and how they lived, suffered and coped during the dark years of World War II.  C’est un livre très passionnant!

Nathan

Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War #2) (Hardcover)

By Nigel Hamilton

Not Available

ISBN: 9780544279117

Availability: Out of Print

Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - June 7th, 2016

Commander in Chief is the second volume of Nigel Hamilton’s masterful reexamination of FDR’s crucial role in the planning and execution of the Allied war strategy during World War II. This volume centers on the decision making process after the North African invasion beginning  with Roosevelt’s summit with Churchill in Casablanca in 1943 and how it took all of Roosevelt’s diplomatic skill and resolve to set the course for ultimate victory.

Dale

 

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Hardcover)

By Phillip Hoose

Not Available

ISBN: 9780374300227

Availability: Available to Order from Supplier: Arrives at Store in a Week(ish)

Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - May 12th, 2015

Phillip Hoose tells the amazing story of a group of Danish boys who disagree with their government’s decision to let Nazi Germany take over their country without a fight. Danish resistance began with boys on bicycles committing annoying acts of sabotage. Kid Power!!

Carol