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Books by Alex Kershaw
  | | The First Wave(Reprint) The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Dutton Caliber ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49007-0, ISBN: 0-451-49007-X "NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. “Meet the assaulters: pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock . . . Fast-paced and up close, this is history’s greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can.”—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling aut ..." |
 | | The Liberator(Reprint) One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-0-307-88800-6, ISBN: 0-307-88800-2 "The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared – the entire time it took to liberate Eu ..." |
 | | Avenue of Spies(Reprint) A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-4005-8, ISBN: 0-8041-4005-7 "The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War IIThe leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young ..." |
 | | The Few(Reprint) The American ""Knights of the Air"" Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940 by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2007 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81572-0, ISBN: 0-306-81572-9 "The never-before-told story of the American pilots-idealists, adventurers, romantics-who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. The few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight sideby- side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 19 ..." |
 | | The Longest Winter(14th Edition) The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2005 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81440-2, ISBN: 0-306-81440-4 "From the author of the best-selling The Bedford Boys, the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at the Battle of the Bulge On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. Despite being va ..." |
 | | The Bedford Boys(Reprint) One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2004 by Da Capo Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81355-9, ISBN: 0-306-81355-6 ""Gripping...It's through books like this that those brave men, who fought so others could be free, live on. " -- Dallas Morning News . June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population just 3,000 in 1944--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more b ..." |
 | | Escape from the Deep(Reprint) A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81790-8, ISBN: 0-306-81790-X "In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface, while the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges. As the air ran out, some of the crew made a daring ascent through the escape hatch. In the end, just nine of the original eighty-man crew survived.But the survi ..." |
 | | The Bedford Boys(1st Edition) One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81167-8, ISBN: 0-306-81167-7 "On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population 3,000--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day when their landing craft dropped them in shallow water off Omaha Beach. They were part of the first wave of American soldiers to hit the sands of Normandy. Later that day, two more soldiers from the same small town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-one sons of Bedford killed--no other town in America suffered a greater one-day ..." |
 | | Blood And Champagne(Reprint) The Life And Times Of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81356-6, ISBN: 0-306-81356-4 ""It does seem to me that Capa has proved beyond all doubt that the camera need not be a cold mechanical device" John Steinbeck wrote of photojournalist Robert Capa in a quote that launches Blood and Champagne, a well-written, exhaustively researched biography. "Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart." That's quite a compliment coming from an author of Steinbeck's calibre, but then C ..." |
 | | To Save a People by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by Arrow ISBN-13: 978-0-09-953913-1, ISBN: 0-09-953913-6 ""New York Times" bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler - Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews, at unimaginable risk and great cost to himself. As a Holocaust survivor said, 'Schindler saved hundreds. Wallenberg saved tens of thousands.' This is the story of how he achiev ..." |
 | | Escape From The Deep(1st Edition) The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew by Alex Kershaw Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 2008 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81519-5, ISBN: 0-306-81519-2 "By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy struck-the Tang was hit by one of her own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive in their submerged iron coffin” one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surfac ..." |
 | | Blood and Champagne(1st Edition) The Life and Times of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2003 by Thomas Dunne Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-31564-1, ISBN: 0-312-31564-3 "Robert Capa was arguably the finest photojournalist of the twentieth century and without doubt its greatest combat photographer-he covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the beginnings of Vietnam. An inveterate gambler who coined the dictum "if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," Capa risked his life again and again, most dramatically as the only photographer landing with the first wave on Oma ..." |
 | | The First Wave(Large Print) The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II (Random House ) by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2019 by Random House Large Print Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-984882-86-8, ISBN: 1-984882-86-4 "NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. “Meet the assaulters: pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock . . . Fast-paced and up close, this is history’s greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can.”—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling aut ..." |
 | | The First Wave(1st Edition) The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Dutton Caliber ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49005-6, ISBN: 0-451-49005-3 "NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. “Meet the assaulters: pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock . . . Fast-paced and up close, this is history’s greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can.”—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling aut ..." |
 | | The General(1st Edition) William Levine, Citizen Soldier and Liberator by Alex Kershaw, Richard Ernsberger Jr., Professor Kenneth Clarke, Jennifer Pritzker, Jennifer N. Pritzker Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Pritzker Military Museum And Library ISBN-13: 978-0-9897928-8-2, ISBN: 0-9897928-8-9 "As William P. Levine, a young Jewish U.S. Army intelligence officer, moved deeper into the Dachau concentration camp, he was speechless at the horrors he encountered. Even though liberated, the prisoners were still at risk. Levine caught a young Jewish prisoner, Maurice Pioro, as he was about to collapse and carried him to safety. It was in this moment, in hindsight, that Levine realized that the world needed a strong America. As Willia ..." |
 | | The Liberator One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey From the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-0-09-956879-7, ISBN: 0-09-956879-9 "From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end - Sparks' remarkable true story is told here for the very first time." |
 | | The Liberator One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2012 by Crown ISBN-13: 978-0-307-88799-3, ISBN: 0-307-88799-5 "The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared – the entire time it took to liberate Eu ..." |
 | | The Envoy(1st Edition) The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II by Alex Kershaw Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by Da Capo Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81557-7, ISBN: 0-306-81557-5 "December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann has sent over half a million Hungarians to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Now all that prevents him from liquidating Europe’s last Jew ..." |
 | | The Longest Winter The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon by Alex Kershaw Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 2004 by Da Capo Press International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81304-7, ISBN: 0-306-81304-1 "From the author of the best-selling The Bedford Boys comes this epic story of courage and survival in World War II On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under the command of twenty-year-old lieutenant Lyle Bouck were huddled in their foxholes trying desperately to keep warm. Suddenly, the early morning silence was broken by the roar of a huge artillery bombardment and the dreadful so ..." |
 | | Avenue of Spies A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alex Kershaw 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-4004-1, ISBN: 0-8041-4004-9 "79 “occasion he made no comment”: David Pryce-Jones, Paris in the Third Reich, 255. 79 “the end of an epoch”: Yves Pourcher, Pierre Laval Vupar Sa Fille (Paris: La Cherche Midi, 2002), 270. 79 a price to pay: Pierre Abramovici, Un Rocher ..." |
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