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How Churchill and the British Refused to Let Hitler Win

An island nation stood alone. Hitler had every intent to crush it. First by air and then by land invasion. Yet it refused to fold, refused to capitulate and refused to surrender. Churchill’s speeches of […]

Pearl Harbor survivor Donald Stratton renders a salute as USS Halsey (DDG 97) performs a Pass-in-Review during the 75th Anniversary National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Commemoration at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal)

A Harrowing Tale of Survival 75 Years On

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All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor’s Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor is a brilliant account by one of the last survivors of the USS Arizona, blown up without warning on the morning of the Pearl Harbor […]

The Unbelievable Story of How the Love of Peace Led to War and Disaster

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The Gathering Storm may not be the best known of Churchill’s six volume series The Second World War as it largely covers the period before the war began. Like similar titles on the First World War […]

Eleanor, Hick & Missy

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Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady By Susan Quinn Hardcover, 416 pages Published September 27th 2016 by Penguin Publishing Group WW2 Reads Rating: 5 of 5 Stars The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and […]

MacArthur: At War, in New Guinea and as American Warrior

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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior Hardcover, 880 pages Published June 14th 2016 by Random House WW2 Reads Rating: 5 of 5 Stars MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific Hardcover, 608 pages Published May […]

The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb

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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb Hardcover, 400 pages Published May 3rd 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt WW2 Reads Rating: 5 of 5 Stars If you want to be transported […]

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, 1941. 79-AR-82. National Archives Identifier: 520053

Roosevelt: The Lion & The Fox and The Soldier of Freedom

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5 out of 5 stars The two volumes of James MacGregor Burns’ magisterial political biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt are unique in their intricate and nuanced understanding of FDR as a political operator. While other […]

"We were getting our second wind now and started flattening out that bulge. We took 50,000 prisoners in December alone." American soldier with captured Germans. Ca. 1944. 208-YE-105. National Archives Identifier: 12010189

Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble

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Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble by Antony Beevor My rating: 5 of 5 stars Antony Beevor has once again written a gripping and well researched account of a WW2 battle that deserves to be placed […]

Day one of the ten days it took to build the Liberty Ship SS Joseph N. Teal by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, run by Henry Kaiser.

A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II

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A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II by Maury Klein My rating: 5 of 5 stars Maury Klein’s A Call to Arms is an intricately researched and incredibly detailed account of the […]

FDR

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FDR by Jean Edward Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars Jean Edward Smith’s biography of FDR is one of the most complete and compelling reads on the life of one of the greatest […]