Anti-Nazi German troops join forces with American soldiers to fight off a Waffen-SS Panzer division trying to recapture a castle fortress in the Austrian Alps where 14 VIP French prisoners had been held. It is the only time that American and German troops join forces in combat in World War II.
The design, creation and use of British air raid shelters, the different types, their strength and weakness and people's experiences of staying in them.
A fascinating look at how aggressive, no holds barred British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job.
The title comes from the cover of a private photo album kept by concentration camp commandant Kurt Franz of Treblinka. This gruesomely disturbing collection of photographs, diaries, letters home and such were created by the executioners and sympathetic observers of the Holocaust themselves.
On Friday, September 1, 1939 the World became aware of the awesome power of Hitler's Third Reich and the limitless and ruthless nature of his ambition.
A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film, arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust. This book unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals associated with it.
A young American survivor of the Bataan Death March and brutal captivity, seeks revenge for the worst atrocity ever committed against the American fighting man. Historical fiction at its absolute best.
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you’re the US Army in 1944, you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways.
Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and WWII hero Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. When the shooting stopped, the stubbornly independent Boyington lived a life that went beyond what even the most imaginative might have expected.
As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives.
One of the great remaining controversies of WWII is whether the bombing offensive against civilians in Germany and Japan was a crime against humanity or if it was justified by the necessities of war.
Without the system of Base Air Depots established in 1942-1943, the 8th Air Force would not have enjoyed the success it did. Base Air Depots, such as this one at Warton, processed incoming aircraft from the States, turning them into combat-ready aircraft.
In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed. Humor was widespread during the Third Reich, but only in whispers while looking over their shoulder for someone that might turn them in to the Gestapo.
Churchill's "Few" were central to national survival during the Battle of Britain, and the morale of millions was sustained through their heroism - a potent propaganda victory within a military success.
After losing both legs in an air crash in 1931 and being dismissed as a cripple by the Royal Air Force, Douglas Bader fought his way back into the cockpit of a Spitfire to become one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain.
The compelling minute-by-minute account of one single day in the Battle of Britain, on which the Luftwaffe launched three major air assaults on Britain, changing the destiny of the war.
Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty.
Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Munster from 1933 until his death in 1946, is renowned for his opposition to Nazism, most notably for his public preaching in 1941 against Hitler's euthanasia project to rid the country of sick, elderly, mentally retarded, and disabled Germans.
When the Jumpin' Jimminy, a Flying Fortress shot up in a raid over Nazi Germany, crash lands in neutral Sweden in the autumn of 1944, its crew couldn't dream they would wind up playing a World Series. Especially a Series against tough enemy Japanese sailors from a submarine that went aground on Sweden's rocky coast.