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World War II: The Fear and the Freedom

by Keith Lowe

The Second World War was not just another crisis—it directly affected more people…
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Cecil Vandepeer Clarke: Churchill’s Secret Weapon

by Giles Milton Cecil Vandepeer Clarke viewed his caravan with the sort of affection that most…
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Major Pappy Boyington: Commander of the Black Sheep Squadron

Michael E. Haskew One of the legendary fighting units to emerge from the Solomon Islands Campaign,…
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Churchill and His Money: No More Champagne

No More Champagne

by David Lough

An Introduction: Churchill and his Money This book owes its genesis to a…
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Joe Kennedy Jr.: Fallen Hero of Operation Aphrodite

Joe Kennedy Jr. - Operation Aphrodite
By Alan Axelrod Winston Churchill titled a chapter of his monumental history of World War II…
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The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII

Hank Greenberg- The Game Must Go on
by John Klima The war years have often been characterized as a void in time where…
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A Lucky Honor: On Publishing Georg Rauch’s Unlikely Warrior

Unlikely Warrior
by Wesley Adams What a privilege to have had the chance to acquire and edit the…
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I Hope You Are of Our Party: Fidelity and Betrayal

by Jack Kelly

Shakespeare, of course, wrote acclaimed plays about history. But sometimes history takes the…
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An American Hero Lost to History

Flee North by Scott Shane is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer…
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The Incredible Adventures of Two Sister Ships

by Nev March

The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret, the third book in my Captain Jim and Lady…
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Hold the Hill

by Tom Clavin

The Last Hill by Bob Drury and yours truly covers the dramatic campaigns…
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Revolutionary Bad Boy: Benedict Arnold, Treason, and Trust

by Jack Kelly

It was said about Benedict Arnold that he never did anything by halves.…
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The Tide of War

by Uri Kaufman

Some years, like 1776 and 1939, need no introduction; their reputations travel before…
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Capturing the Cross

by Tom Clavin

This year is the 150th anniversary of the taking of one of the…
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A State of Turmoil

by Alexander Larman

In 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII,…
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