Norman Kuperman Military History Collection

Norman Kuperman Military History Collection

Norman Kuperman (1926-2011) served in the Korean War and was stationed in Europe. A resident of Skokie, Illinois, he had a deep life-long love of history and travel which is reflected in his books. Donated by his family in 2011, the Norman Kuperman Military History Collection consists of roughly 400 books on American and European military history from the Civil War (1861-1865) to the present.

Library Holdings

Rising '44: the battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies (2004)

The Long March : the true history of Communist China's founding myth by Shuyun Sun (2006)

Hitler's pope : the secret history of Pius XII by John Cornwell (1999)

The Civil War archive : the history of the Civil War in documents by Henry Steele Commager; Erik A Bruun (2000)

Fighting words : an illustrated history of newspaper accounts of the Civil War by Andrew Seth Coopersmith (2004)

The Yamato dynasty : the secret history of Japan's imperial family by Sterling Seagrave & Peggy Seagrave (1999)

A military atlas of the First World War by Arthur Banks & Alan Palmer (2001)

The illustrated history of weaponry : from flint axes to automatic weapons by Charles Wills (2006)

The illustrated book of guns : an illustrated directory of over 1,000 military, sporting, and antique firearms by David Miller (2002)

My father's keeper : children of Nazi leaders : an intimate history of damage and denial by Norbert Lebert (2002)

Blindfold and alone : British military executions in the Great War by Cathryn Corns; John Hughes-Wilson (2005)

The Encyclopedia of world history : ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged by Peter N Stearns; William L Langer (2001)

The Dambusters raid by John Sweetman (2002)

The women who wrote the war by Nancy Caldwell Sorel (1999)

Donnybrook : the Battle of Bull Run, 1861 by David Detze (2005)

The road to Rivoli : Napoleon's first campaign by Martin Boycott-Brown (2001)

Mrs. Robert E. Lee : the lady of Arlington by John Perry (2003)

Secret agent's handbook : the WWII spy manual of devices, disguises, gadgets and concealed weapons by Great Britain. Public Record Office (2001)

A woman's Civil War : a diary, with reminiscences of the war, from March 1862 by Cornelia Peake McDonald & Minrose Gwin (2003)