Over 5 million German males as young as 14 assisted the war effort in every capacity called upon; eventually into full war fighting.
Monty tells his side of the story of the momentous battles against the enemy - and, sadly, the Allies - as he strove for victory in WWII.
The US campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns as perhaps the deadliest battle of WWII’s western theater.
The conference that led to limitations in the era when it was still believed that battleships were the epitome of naval power and a sign of a country's strength.
One of the bloodiest Allied struggles against the Axis, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnage and turmoil.
At 16, she faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire along with her family and 110,000 others of Japanese ancestry and had to struggle for survival and dignity.
Neither the internment of ethnic Japanese - not to mention ethnic Germans and Italians - nor the relocation and evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast were the result of war hysteria or race prejudice as historians have taught us.
Twenty-nine German women from a wide spectrum of circumstances recall memories of life under the Third Reich.
Details of the significant yet often overlooked contribution of the Dutch to the Allied effort in the Pacific.
The battle for Moscow was not only the biggest battle of WWII, it was the biggest battle of all time. Yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops.
Each country working on the development of radar believed that it was its own development and held the technology in highest secrecy.
An unsuccessful young lawyer becomes the Mahatma, the "great soul" and leads 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the British Empire. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today.
The chilling account of 23 men torturing and killing by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.
Leningrad was surrounded by German forces and the siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
From the Munich crisis and the dropping of the atom bombs to Hitler’s declaration of war on the US and the D-Day landings, historians suggest "what might have been" if key events in World War II had gone differently.
How Britain dealt with challenges in Ireland through a combination of diplomacy, covert gathering of intelligence, propaganda, and intimidation.
Pulitzer Prize winning chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States and an intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt during a time in which a new, modern America was born.
Reconstruction of the story of the largest single atrocity committed against American POWs on the Western front in World War II.
While an immense twentieth century war was raging on Earth, there appeared to be someone, or something, from somewhere else, watching us.
The Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army. But Finland held out for 105 bitterly cold, fiercely combative days, until a peace agreement ended the short, savage Winter War.