They embraced popular culture to oppose accepted modes of youthful behavior, the dominance of white middle-class norms, and expectations from within their own communities.
Using Ukrainian air bases, FRANTIC was designed to help deliver the knockout blow to the Nazi war machine while minimizing the severe losses experienced by Allied air forces in daylight bombing campaigns over Germany.
The WASPs were pioneers and their expertise in flying every type of military aircraft, from the fastest fighters to the heaviest bombers, blazed a trail for women of future generations.
The sophisticated, stupefying Nazi propaganda assault on the social and economic fabric of British society through wireless broadcasts.
Widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, Reinhard Heydrich was an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership.
A mixture of history and adventure that includes interviews with survivors of both ships.
Operation Fortitude and the Double Cross system were the most sophisticated deception operations ever carried out, ensuring Allied success on D-Day.
The little-explored story of how politics, propaganda, and profits were combined to create the drama, imagery and fantasy that was American film during WWII.
With the army drafting their players, the Steelers and Eagles kept football alive by merging to become the "Steagles" for the 1943 season.
A specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on history by flying a high-risk, low-level, nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry.
Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code "the secret weapon that won the war."
The perceptions of how victory was to be celebrated and what post-war Britain should look like were very different from the visions the people and the politicians had in 1940.
If you're going to read this book, you should start at the very beginning (a very good place to start).
The magnitude of the tragic loss of Lt Gen Andrews to the Allied war effort was characterized by Gen George Marshall by describing him as one of the nation’s "few great captains."
In eight years of near-constant warfare, 150 Japanese Air Force and 21 Japanese Navy pilots achieved "ace" status.
Two rare autobiographical works in one volume by Benito Mussolini, founder of Fascism and dictator over Italy for twenty-one years.
Chronicle of how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art, written by a victim of the Gestapo, from interviews with former Gestapo agents.
A definitive history of US aerial armament in WWII from conventional bombs to some of the most bizarre bombs ever conceived.
Model was one of the most brutal of German Generals, and the higher he rose in rank, the more offensive his behavior became.