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  • THE GOOD WAR

    America in World War II, 1939–1945

    by Daniel Harding Westbrook ...
    The complete narrative history of World War II — Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the atomic bomb, Rosie the Riveter, the Double V Campaign, and the war that made modern America, 1939-1945. On September 1, 1939, fifty-three German divisions crossed the Polish frontier at dawn. The Blitzkrieg destroyed the Polish air force on the ground and reached Warsaw within eight days. The United States watched from four ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    THE GOOD WAR

    America in World War II, 1939–1945

    by Daniel Harding Westbrook ...
    Narrated by Cole Nguyen ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    THE GOOD WAR — Audiobook · Narrated by Cole Nguyen. Listen time: 6 hours 53 minutes The complete narrative history of World War II — Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the atomic bomb, Rosie the Riveter, the Double V Campaign, and the war that made modern America, 1939-1945. On September 1, 1939, fifty-three German divisions crossed the Polish frontier at dawn. The Blitzkrieg destroyed the Polish air force on ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

    by Victor Davis Hanson ...
    A comprehensive account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian and author of The Dying Citizen**.****“Breathtakingly magisterial.” —**Wall Street JournalWorld War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor ... Read more

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  • Losing Military Supremacy

    The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

    by Andrei Martyanov ...
    Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Rain of Ruin

    Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

    by Richard Overy ...
    **A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025**'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.' - Philip Snow, Literary ReviewIn ... Read more

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  • The Changing Face of War

    Combat from the Marne to Iraq

    by Martin van Creveld ...
    One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped insurgents, and how the security of sovereign nations may ... Read more

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  • War and Power

    Who Wins Wars—and Why

    by Phillips Payson O'Brien ...
    A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectrum of economic, political, and social power“Stimulating. ... Full of interesting facts and connections.” —Wall Street JournalFor nearly two centuries, international relations have been premised on the idea of the “Great Powers.” As the thinking went, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Cold War

    A Military History

    by David Miller ...
    From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. Repeatedly it seemed that in days, even hours, global nuclear conflict would sweep away much of the United States, the Soviet Union and Europe. They would be obliterated in what President Carter described as 'one long, final and very bleak afternoon'. When the Cold War ended, the Warsaw Pact was wound up and the vast military forces ... Read more

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  • Choices Under Fire

    Moral Dimensions of World War II

    by Michael Bess ...
    World War II was the quintessential “good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What is the legacy bequeathed to the world by Hiroshima? With wisdom and clarity, Michael Bess brings a fresh ... Read more

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  • The Library of Congress World War II Companion

    Edited by David M. Kennedy ...
    An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy. With hundreds of illustrations and quotations from contemporary documents, this will be the most authoritative popular reference on World War II.The noted historian John Keegan called World War II "the largest single event in human history." More than ... Read more

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  • The Best War Ever

    America and World War II

    by Michael C. C. Adams ...
    Series series The American Moment
    The most readable—and searingly honest—short book ever written on this pivotal conflict.Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war ... Read more

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  • The Cold War

    A Military History

    by David Miller ...
    A preeminent Cold War scholar writes insightfully of the historic effects of the military build-up brought on by the Cold War and its effect on strategy.Bringing together for the first time newly declassified information, David Miller takes readers inside the arsenals of the superpowers, describing how intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-based missiles, strategic bombers, and ... Read more

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