The failed Valkyrie bomb plot was far from the last act of disobedience carried out against the Nazi regime.
He was America's boy next door movie star and a recent Academy Award winner who left it all behind to join the United States Army Air Corps and fulfill his family mission to serve his country.
The dramatic experiences of the members of a ten-man B-17 bomber crew after their plane, piloted by the author's father, was knocked out of the sky by German fighters over the French/Belgian border on February 8, 1944.
William Sebold, a naturalized American of German birth, risked his life to become the first double agent in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24 Liberators as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II.
Of all the celebrities who served their country during WWII, Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, 1941, he was already in uniform, beginning his long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that Alan Turing saved the Allies from the Nazis and invented the computer and artificial intelligence.
A portrait of how Japanese diplomat to Lithuania Chiune Sugihara used his powers in 1940 - against the orders of his own government - to assist thousands of Jews escape the Holocaust.
A vivid picture of the suffering of the island of Malta and its population during one of the longest sieges in history
Having just completed the first Hollywood sale of war bonds, Carole Lombard became the first star to sacrifice her life in the War.
The brief but violent campaign to prevent the British from exerting control of the coastline of neutral Norway, while still fine-tuning his plans against France.
To the Allies, the elite force of German submariners was embarking on a mission of unequivocal evil.
The first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world.
The historic creation and the many people affected by the Interstates; from the largely forgotten technocrats who planned the system, to the thousands of city dwellers who resisted the concrete juggernaut when it bore down on their neighborhoods.
The whole panorama from Ike's superlative generalship forging the Allied path to victory to his meteoric rise to the White House.
The story of Germany's Year Zero and what came next as the German people shook off the nightmare of Nazism to rebuild their battered country.
A close study of America's military leaders for three decades, and the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the US military.
27 action-packed radio episodes, starting off with the explosion of Krypton and working in all of the classic Superman elements: Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, Clark Kent and the Man of Steel.
The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. In a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions.